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Rebecca Ruter Springer
1832–1904
Best known for the classic devotional work later published as My Dream of Heaven, this 19th-century American writer blended poetry, fiction, and faith in books that kept finding new readers long after her lifetime.
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Intra Muros
by Rebecca Ruter Springer
About the author
Born in Indianapolis on November 8, 1832, she was the daughter of Methodist minister Calvin W. Ruter. She began publishing verse while still young and went on to contribute poems and stories to leading periodicals of her day.
She married William M. Springer in 1859 and wrote across several genres, including poetry, fiction, and religious writing. Her best-known book is Intra Muros (1898), a Christian work later widely reissued as My Dream of Heaven, which helped preserve her reputation with generations of devotional readers.
She died on September 7, 1904. Today she is remembered chiefly for the warm, hopeful spiritual vision of Intra Muros, though her broader career shows a writer active in many forms of 19th-century literary life.