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...

"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...