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A Short Biography of Evelyn Underhill

Author Name:

Evelyn Underhill

Born As:

Other Names:

Pseudonym John Cordelier

Born:

06 Dec 1875

Died:

15 Jun 1941




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Religious writer and Christian Mystic                          
Selected Works:

Poetry:

The Bar-Lamb's Ballad Book - 1902
Immanence - 1916
Theophanies - 1916

Novels:

The Grey World - 1904. Reprint Kessinger Publishing, 1942
The Lost Word - 1907
The Column of Dust - 1909

Religion - non-fiction:

Mysticism: A Study of the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness - 1911; 12th edition reprint by Dutton 1961; reprint 1999 - See also online edition
The Path of Eternal Wisdom. A mystical commentary on the Way of the Cross - 1912

"Introduction" to her edition of the anonymous The Cloud of Unknowing - c.1370 from British Museum manuscript - here entitled A Book of Contemplation the which is called the Cloud of Unknowing, in the which a Soul is oned with God - London: John M. Walkins 1912; reprint as Cloud of Unknowing - 1998 - 2007
The Spiral Way. Being a meditation on the fifteen mysteries of the soul's ascent - 1912
The Mystic Way. A psychological study of Christian origins - 1914.
Practical Mysticism. A Little Book for Normal People - 1914; reprint 1942 - reprint by Vintage Books, New York 2003 - with Abba - 1940
Ruysbroeck - London: Bell 1915

"Introduction" to Songs of Kabir - 1915 translation by Rabindranath Tagore; reprint 1977 Samuel Weiser
The Essentials of Mysticism and other essays - 1920; reprint 1999
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today - 1920.
The Mystics of the Church - 1925
Concerning the Inner Life - 1927; reprint 1999
Man and the Supernatural. A study in theism - 1927
The House of the Soul - 1929
The Light of Christ - 1932

The Golden Sequence. A fourfold study of the spiritual life - 1933
The School of Charity. Meditations on the Christian Creed - 1934 -  reprint by Longmans, London 1954
Worship - 1936
The Spiritual Life - 1936; reprint 1999. See also online edition
The Mystery of Sacrifice. A study on the liturgy - 1938; reprint by Longmans, London 1954
Abba. A meditation on the Lord's Prayer - 1940; reprint 2003 - with Practical Mysticism - 1914
The Letters of Evelyn Underhill - 1943, as edited by Charles Williams; reprint Christian Classics 1989
Shrines and Cities of France and Italy - 1949, as edited by Lucy Menzies

Fragments from an inner life. Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill - 1993 -  edited by Dana Greene.

Anthologies:

Fruits of the Spirit - 1942 edited by R. L. Roberts; reprint 1982
Collected Papers of Evelyn Underhill - 1946 edited by L. Menzies and introduced by L. Barkway.
Lent with Evelyn Underhill - 1964 edited by G. P. Mellick Belshaw.
An Anthology of the Love of God. From the writings of Evelyn Underhill - 1976 edited by L. Barkway and L. Menzies.
The Ways of the Spirit - 1990 edited by G. A. Brame; reprint 1993
Modern guide to the ancient quest for the Holy - 1988 edited and introduced by D. Greene.
Essential writings - 2003 edited by E. Griffin
Radiance: A Spiritual Memoir - 2004 edited by Bernard Bangley.                          
Husband Hubert Stuart Moore