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Isabella Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) was a single British woman who sacrificed a career in art in order to serve God in North Africa for 40 years. Her art and writings demonstrate her commitment to the beauty and truth of God’s Word and God’s world. Her lifestyle of a deep spirituality combined with theological acuity is the model we hope to ...
Lilias Trotter was born in Marylebone, London, to Isabella and Alexander Trotter, a wealthy stockbroker for Coutts Bank. Both parents were well-read, intellectually curious, and inclined toward humanitarianism. Isabella Strange, a Low Church Anglican and the daughter of colonial administrator Thomas Andrew Lumisden Strange, married Alexander ...
BIOGRAPHY. July 14, 1853 – August 27, 1928. John Ruskin, in his 1883 Oxford lecture, “The Art of England,” tells of meeting a young woman, Lilias Trotter, who challenged his prejudice about artists. “For a long time I used to say, in all my elementary books, that except in a graceful and minor way, women could not draw or paint.
Mar 15, 2021 · Lilias Trotter (1853-1928) had a wealthy and privileged upbringing as part of an upper-class family in the golden age of Victorian England, schooled by governesses. In her twenties, she grew in faith through a movement of spiritual life conferences held across England. She then volunteered at the newly formed YWCA to reach out to London’s ...
Welcome to the Lilias Trotter Legacy website. Our mission is to gather, preserve, and make accessible the written and artistic work of Lilias Trotter; to present to a global audience the thought, works, and life of Lilias Trotter; and to use the enduring legacy of Lilias Trotter to convey the light and love of Jesus to others. We're happy you stopped by and hope you stay a while.
Parables of the Christ-life, by Lilias Trotter, Lilias Trotter Legacy, 2020. Though undated, her diaries reveal that it was conceived in 1897 while walking through the African hillsides then written at the Olivage Training Center outside Algiers during months of Saturdays in 1898.
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