The Life Behind Stepping Heavenward — Originally Published 1882
506 pages · Paperback ISBN 9798189731822 · Hardcover ISBN 9798189751417
Elizabeth Prentiss wrote the best-loved devotional novel of the nineteenth century, and the hymn “More Love to Thee, O Christ.” She also buried two children, lived most of her adult life in pain, and spent years unable to pray.
Four years after her death in 1878, her husband George Lewis Prentiss gathered her letters and journals into this memoir. Three-quarters of the book is her own voice — writing to her sister, her cousins, and her diary, from her twentieth year almost to her last hour.
Readers of Stepping Heavenward will find here where the novel came from: the deaths that shaped its theology of suffering, her own account of writing it, and her genuine misgivings about the book that made her famous.
Read more about the life and work of Elizabeth Prentiss, or explore the Elizabeth Prentiss collection.
Published in 1882, George L. Prentiss’s memoir tells the story of the author of Stepping Heavenward and “More Love to Thee, O Christ.” Three-quarters of the book is Elizabeth Prentiss’s own voice through her letters and journals.
Yes. This 506-page Old Glory Press edition includes all fifteen chapters unabridged, with Elizabeth Prentiss’s letters, journals, and story intact, plus a carefully selected appendix.
Readers encounter the deaths that shaped Elizabeth’s theology of suffering, her own account of writing the novel, and her genuine misgivings about the book that made her famous.
The Old Glory Press edition is available in paperback (ISBN 9798189731822) and hardcover (ISBN 9798189751417).
