![]() ![]() Underhill was called simply "Mrs Moore" by many of her friends, but was not without her detractors. ![]() Neither her husband (a Protestant) nor her parents shared her interest in spiritual matters. She travelled regularly within Europe, primarily Switzerland, France and Italy, where she pursued her interests in art and Catholicism, visiting numerous churches and monasteries. She and her husband, Hubert Stuart Moore, grew up together and were married on 3 July 1907. ![]() The meaning of these experiences became a lifelong quest and a source of private angst, provoking her to research and write.īoth her father and her husband were writers (on the law), London barristers, and yachtsmen. An only child, she described her early mystical insights as "abrupt experiences of the peaceful, undifferentiated plane of reality-like the 'still desert' of the mystic-in which there was no multiplicity nor need of explanation". She was a poet and novelist, as well as a pacifist and mystic. ![]()
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