Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) achieved international fame in 1911 with the publication of her book, "Mysticism", now in its eighteenth edition. In the course of her long career she published nearly forty books, including three novels and two volumes of poetry, as well as numerous poems in periodicals. She was the religion editor for "Spectator", a friend of T. S. Eliot (her influence is visible in his last masterpiece, "Four Quartets"), and the first woman invited to lecture on theology at Oxford University.