Lilias Trotter

Lilias Trotter, art protégé of John Ruskin then Christian worker in Algeria, was nearly “lost to history” until the early 1990s when biographer Miriam Huffman Rockness unearthed Trotter’s page-a-day diaries and travel journals.  On those pages, she’d penned and painted her life—mundane alongside memorable moments.  Serendipitous sightings—she called them “beholdings.”  Now it’s your turn.  In these pages, adorned with Trotter’s art and inspirational snippets, you’re invited to write, sketch, or draw remembrances, experiences, hopes, and prayers.  Your regrets, intentions, celebrations.  Even...

Images of Faith: Reflections Inspired by Lilias Trotter goes beyond the biographical facts of Lilias’s life--Victorian-era artist, protege of John Ruskin, ground-breaking social worker, missionary to Algeria, inspirational author--to ponder the deeper meaning of her life. Some 60 devotional reflections start with a short Trotter quotation, often selected from unpublished diaries, and a full-color Trotter watercolor. Miriam Rockness--who as biographer has lived and breathed and absorbed the world and mind-set of Lilias for the past thirty years--then shares contemporary-life reflections that complement and match the spiritual insights of...

"Lilias Trotter," says J. G. S. S. Thompson in his Foreword to the 1964 Edition of Parables of the Cross, "was cast in the mold of the Christian mystic, and her Parables of the Cross is a Christian classic. Compared with the writings of Augustine and Boehme, Teresa and John of the Cross, Bunyan and Law, the 'Parables' is a slim volume, but in this realm quantity is insignificant. The qualities which make a book a classic of the soul are certainly complex but they are recognizable, and Parables of the Cross bears the authentic hallmark. The discerning will notice that the timeless and universal quality of the appeal of the...

Deeply in touch with God, Lilias Trotter was also deeply in touch with nature and endued with a tremendous gift for drawing spiritual lessons from the natural world. She was also an exquisite artist. All these qualities combine in this classic volume on the Christ life. Like Parables of the Cross, this is a republication of her original work complete with full color renderings of her unusual paintings. Read a quotation from Parables of the Christ Life

NOTE: THIS IS NOW A PAPERBACK. The hardback version went out of print and the publishers have replaced it with this paperback version. It's not known whether it will ever come back as a hardback. This paperback is very nicely produced. Reflections of Faith in the Art and Writings of Lilias Trotter. Lovers of Lilias Trotter's works will welcome this gift book style hardback collection of writings and paintings drawn together by the skillful hands of Miriam Huffman Rockness. A Blossom in the Desert is truly a book that belongs on your coffee table, to give you encouragement time and again as you ponder Lilias' challenges and how...