Doudney’s fam­ily moved to a re­mote vil­lage in Hamp­shire when she was ve­ry young. Her first lit­er­ary ef­fort was the po­em The Les­sons of the Wa­ter-Mill, writ­ten at age 15; it be­came a pop­u­lar song in Amer­i­ca. She was known to the read­ing pub­lic main­ly through her sto­ries, A Wo­man’s Glo­ry, Step­ping Stones, and others, and through her con­tri­bu­tions to the Sun­day Mag­a­zine, Good Words, and other per­i­od­ic­als. Those con­tri­bu­tions in­cluded fict­ion, and sac­red and sec­u­lar po­ems. Houl­ston pub­lished her Psalms of Life in 1871.

• Emurian, pp. 133-35
• Hustad, p. 233
• Julian, pp. 307, 1560
• Reynolds, p. 282

1. Chris­tian’s Good Night, The
2. For All Thy Care We Bless Thee
3. He Hath Gone in­to His Gar­den
4. In Thy Ho­ly Gar­den Ground
5. Land of Peace, and Love, and Bright­ness
6. Lord of the Gold­en Har­vest
7. Mas­ter Hath Come, The
8. Now the Sol­emn Sha­dows Dark­en
9. Room for the Wan­der­er
10. Savior, Now the Day Is End­ing
11. We Praise Our Lord To­day
12. We Sing a Lov­ing Je­sus