Hinds’ Feet on High Places

Hannah Hurnard’s 1955 novel Hinds’ Feet on High Places is an allegorical portrayal of purgation, progress, and ascent within the spiritual life. Born to Quaker parents, Hurnard struggled with her faith in her youth but experienced a powerful conversion at the age of 19. Inspired, she gained theological training in England and went on to author almost two dozen books over the course of her life, including a sequel to Hinds’ Feet entitled Mountain of Spices.

Hinds’ Feet remains Hurnard’s most popular work, a classic in the genre that has sold over a million copies and is still widely read and distributed. Influenced by Pilgrim’s Progress, the allegorical novel penned by John Bunyan in the 17th century, Hinds’ Feet is autobiographical in the sense that it draws on some of Hurnard’s own experience and interior life. The novel is also similar to C. S. Lewis’s Pilgrim’s Regress, published in 1933, which deals with a man searching for an island that holds his heart’s desire while struggling against personifications of 20th-century philosophies.

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