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Rebecca Ruter Springer
1832–1904
Best known for the devotional classic Intra Muros, she wrote with a warm, hopeful voice that helped make her vision of heaven endure for generations. Before that, she was already publishing poetry and fiction in the nineteenth century.
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Intra Muros
by Rebecca Ruter Springer
About the author
Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on November 8, 1832, Rebecca Ruter Springer was an American writer raised in a Methodist family. She was the daughter of Calvin W. Ruter, a well-known Methodist clergyman, and she studied at Wesleyan Female College.
Springer began publishing verse while still young and went on to contribute to major periodicals. She also wrote fiction, including Beechwood, but she is most widely remembered for Intra Muros (1898), later often republished as My Dream of Heaven, a spiritual work that describes a vivid experience of the afterlife.
She died on September 7, 1904. Her writing has stayed in print because of its gentle, personal style and the comfort many readers have found in its picture of faith and eternity.