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Books by Evelyn Underhill

These are the principal works of Evelyn Underhill, in chronological order of writing, as near as can be determined.
Date of writing Title / Subject Publication date
1902 A bar-lamb's ballad book – (poems) 1902
1904 The grey world – (novel) 1904
1907 The lost word – (novel) 1907
1906 The miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary: brought out of divers tongues and newly set forth in English 1906
1901-1907 Shrines and cities of France and Italy 1949
1909 The column of dust – (novel) 1909
1910 Mysticism: a study in the nature and development of man's spiritual consciousness 1911
1911 The path of eternal wisdom: a mystical commentary of the way of the cross (John Cordelier) 1911
1912 The spiral way: being a meditation on the fifteen mysteries of the soul's ascent (John Cordelier) 1912
1913 The mystic way: a psychological study in Christian origins 1913
  Immanence: a book of verses – (poems) 1914
1914 Practical mysticism: a little book for normal people 1914
  Ruysbroeck 1915
  Theophanies – (poems) 1916
  Jacopone da Todi 1919
1911-20 The essentials of mysticism and other essays 1920
1922 The life of the spirit and the life of to-day 1922
1923-4 ‘The green notebook’ (in: Fragments from an inner life) 1993
  The mystics of the Church 1925
1924  ‘Sanctity: the perfection of love’– (retreat, in: The ways of the spirit) 1990
1925  ‘The end for which we were made’ – (retreat, in: The ways of the spirit) 1990
1926-37

‘The green and flowered notebooks’ (in: Fragments from an inner life)

1993
1926 

Concerning the inner life – (retreat)

1926
1927 

‘Inner grace and outward sign’– (retreat, in: The ways of the spirit)

1990
 

Man and the supernatural

1927
1928  ‘The call of God’– (retreat, in: The ways of the spirit) 1990
1929 The house of the soul – (retreat) 1929
1930 The golden sequence – (retreat) 1932
1931  The mount of purification – (retreat) 1960
1920-32  Mixed pasture – (essays & addresses) 1933
1932  Light of Christ – (retreat) 1944
1933  The school of charity – (retreat) 1934
  Worship (Library of Constructive Theology) 1936
1934  Abba – (retreat, delivered in 1934, but rewritten in 1939) 1940
1935  The mystery of sacrifice: a meditation on the liturgy – (retreat) 1938
1936  The fruits of the Spirit – (retreat) 1942
1937  The spiritual life – (broadcast talks) 1937
1922-37 Collected papers of Evelyn Underhill / ed. by Lucy Menzies 1946
1938 Eucharistic prayers from the ancient liturgies – (compilation) 1939
1899-1941 The letters of Evelyn Underhill / ed. Charles Williams 1943
1907-40 Evelyn Underhill: modern guide to the ancient quest for the holy / ed. Dana Greene – (essays) 1988
1924-1928 Evelyn Underhill's prayer book / ed. Robyn Wrigley-Carr 2018
     

In addition, Evelyn Underhill was motivated to issue some spiritual classics, many from the mediaeval period, for which she wrote introductions:

  Title / Subject Publication date
  Cloud of unknowing (anonymous) 1912
  The fire of love or Melody of love and The mending of life or Rule of living / of Richard Rolle 1914
  The autobiography / of Maharshi Devendranath Tagore 1914
  One hundred poems of Kabir 1915
  The adornment of the spiritual marriage; The book of truth; The sparkling stone / by Jan van Ruysbroeck 1916
  The confessions / of Jacob Boehme 1920
  The scale of perfection / by Walter Hilton 1923
  The vision of God / of Nicolas of Cusa 1928
  A simple method of raising the soul to contemplation / by François Malaval 1931
    1937

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