Lilias Trotter was born into a wealthy family. As wealthy women did back then, living lives of leisure, they often contributed in some way to a social need. However, Lilias didn't do this to be socially acceptable. More and more she felt God's call on her life to work with women and young ladies who were cast off by society or who had no place to go. In addition to that, a famous artist of the day discovered her artistic talents and gave her lessons. She could have continued under his tutelage and herself become a famous artist. Instead, she realized God had laid the country of Algeria on her heart. She spent the rest of her life as a missionary there in spite of frail health. Her methods of reaching out to Muslims and discipling new believers were far ahead of her time.
Lilias' story is inspiring, but I only gave this book three stars because the writing style was not my favorite. I can't say it wasn't well written, because it was very well-written. It was just kind of heavy and slow, I guess would be how I would describe it.