ABSTRACT

Rossetti turned primarily to devotional works in her final years. In Letter and Spirit, she treats the commandments from the Bible to contemplate right action on earth, which includes learning from nature without worshipping it. Rossetti’s Time Flies is a largely autobiographical work where she revises many of her past responses to objects in the world through more adaptive beliefs. This chapter also considers unpublished revisions she began for Time Flies that deal with animal rights issues. It ends with Face of the Deep, a book about the biblical apocalypse that nevertheless continues to value the natural environment.