Geraldine Hooper

Emma Geraldine Henrietta Hamilton Hooper became Geraldine Dening (30 March 1841 – 12 August 1872) was a British preacher and hymn writer. She was well known in the 1860s and died aged 31.

Life Hooper was born in Paris in 1841 and baptised in Somerset. She was brought up in Bath where she showed early interest in singing and dancing, but she gave all this up after hearing sermons by J. M. Dixon, the rector of Trinity Church in Bath.

From 1863 and until 1871 Haslam was the rector of Buckenham and Hassingham in Norfolk. Haslam's wife invited Hooper to lead a mission in Buckenham. She was popular and she began to tour becoming one of the most well known female preachers in her time. Her approach was very similar to Jessie Macfarlane who was also a popular woman preacher and she met her.

In 1869 she married another preacher and they settled initially in Ottery St Mary where her husband had a farm but they moved to Bath with their daughter. They would take turns to lead services at the mission hall they had built