Julia Anne Elliott

Julia Anne Elliott ( Marshall; 1809–1841) was an English poet and hymnwriter. Elliott wrote little, but wrote well. With rarely an exception, Elliott's hymns bear the stamp of refined poetic taste, and all of them possess a deep religious feeling.

Biography Julia Anne Marshall was born at Hallsteads, Watermillock, Ullswater, England, in 1809.

Marshall and Jane had eleven children. Their eldest son William was MP for Beverley, Carlisle and East Cumberland Their second son John was MP for Leeds 1832–1835, and third son James Garth held the same seat 1847–1852. The fourth son, Henry Cowper, was Mayor of Leeds 1842–1843.

She published Poems (with: Poems on Sacred Subjects.) in 1832. Her poetic taste and skill were evinced in several hymns contributed (1835) to a volume of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, compiled, by her husband, which included "We love Thee, Lord, yet not alone." Some of her religious poems are given in Lord Selborne's Book of Praise. Two hymns are included in Hymns and Songs of Praise for Public and Social Worship, edited by Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, Zachary Eddy, Philip Schaff, 1874.

"Hail, thou bright and sacred morn" was a Sunday morning hymn addressed to Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. According to Brownlie (1899), Elliott's reputation rested upon it as her one good hymn. Smith (1903) and Hatfield (1884) remarked that it was Hyde's most familiar hymn in the U.S.

Julia Anne Elliott died of scarlet fever on 3 November 1841, her fifth child, Julius, having been born on 24 October 1841. "On the Dewy Breath of Even."