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Many Beautiful Things is a 2015 documentary film written and directed by Laura Waters Hinson. It follows the story of 19th century female artist, Lilias Trotter , and her decision to leave her life in England for a life of missionary work in French Algeria .
Mar 8, 2016 · Her latest film, Many Beautiful Things, releases on March 8. Many Beautiful Things explores the life of Lilias Trotter, an artist in Victorian England, who may have been lost to history except that a devoted woman, Miriam Rockness, worked to research, learn, and tell others about Lilias’s story.
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.
Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Victorian England to meet Lilias Trotter. As Lilias journeys to French Algeria in the late 1800’s to pioneer missionary work with women and children viewers are left to wonder “Could you abandon a dream to pursue your true calling?”
This story challenges Christians to ask themselves key questions and highlights the remarkable story of Lilias Trotter, an artist who dedicated herself to God.
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Mar 8, 2016 · Many Beautiful Things plunges viewers into the complex age of Victorian England to meet Lilias Trotter, a daring young woman who defied all norms by winning the favor of England's top art critic, John Ruskin. In an era when women were thought incapable of producing high art, Ruskin promised that her work could be "immortal."
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Aug 1, 2018 · "Many Beautiful Things" (2015), a documentary now available on iTunes, tells the story of Lilias Trotter (1853-1928), an extremely gifted artist, who was acclaimed by the top art critic of the day to be possibly England's top living artist.
