Author talk:Ellen Jane Knight Bradford
Latest comment: 9 years ago by Beleg Tâl
Source: [1]. Captain Nemo (talk) 23:50, 27 August 2015 (UTC).
- "And Mrs. Bradford, of Palmer, in the same state, after reading the incident in the paper, sat down and wrote Over the Line." --p.216 in Sankey, Ira David. My Life and the Story of the Gospel Hymns. Harper & Brothers, 1906. Captain Nemo (talk) 23:28, 28 August 2015 (UTC).
More sources:
- "Over the Line" is credited to Ellen K. Bradford in its first publication in Ira David Sankey's Gospel Hymns[2]
- "BRADFORD, ELLEN KNIGHT, author, poet, was born in Ypsilanti, Mich. Among the best known of her poems are the hymn Over the Line; Wearing of the Blue; Elberon; Centennial; and Songs of Real Children" --Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century[3]