Rebecca Ruter Springer

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Rebecca Ruter Springer

1832–1904

Best known for the deeply popular Christian classic later retitled My Dream of Heaven, this 19th-century American writer blended fiction, poetry, and spiritual reflection in work that stayed in readers’ hands for generations. Her writing is remembered for its warm, hopeful vision of the afterlife.

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Intra Muros

Intra Muros

by Rebecca Ruter Springer

About the author

Born in Indianapolis on November 8, 1832, Rebecca Ruter Springer was an American writer of verse and fiction. She published poetry as well as novels including Beechwood (1873) and Self (1881), building a literary career before the book she became most known for appeared.

Her best-known work is Intra Muros, a devotional and visionary book about heaven that was later widely republished as My Dream of Heaven. It became the book most closely associated with her name and gave her a lasting place in Christian inspirational reading.

Springer died in 1904. Though many details of her life are not widely documented online, her reputation endures through the unusual staying power of Intra Muros, a book that continued finding new readers long after it was first published.