![]() ![]() Two years later, she left for Richmond, VA, to be a department head at a girls' boarding school. In 1838, she opened a small girls' school in her home and took up a Sabbath-school class as well. ![]() The influences of New England Christianity, consisting of the inherited Puritan foundation with added evangelistic, missional, and philanthropic elements, were evident in the Payson family.Īs a young woman, she published some of her children's stories and poems in "The Youth's Companion," a New England religious periodical. She was born and raised in Portland, Maine, United States, the fifth of eight children (only six survived) of the eminent Congregationalist pastor Edward Payson. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss was an author, well known for her hymn "More Love to Thee, O Christ" and the didactic story Stepping Heavenward (1869). ![]()
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