Editor’s note: This article first appeared on the Charlotte Mason Institute blog. Charlotte Mason’s poem “The World to Come” was originally published in her second poetry volume entitled The Saviour of the World. Mason associated the poem with a verse of Scripture from the Gospel of John: “Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming …
Editor’s Note: The December, 1910 issue of The Parents’ Review featured a two-part article by Charlotte Mason. The first part was an Advent devotional to help readers prepare for Christmas. Mason wrote that the mystery of the Incarnation was too great to rush into suddenly. So she prepared a selection of excerpts from her first volume of poetry entitled …
Editor’s Note. In the Armitt Museum, one may request to see an overstuffed box containing a collection of handwritten documents penned by Charlotte Mason. Some of the documents are obviously rough drafts, hastily written and with many corrections. Among these pages are the early drafts for Mason’s seventh volume of The Saviour of the World, written sometime after 1914. But some …
Charlotte Mason wrote six volumes of original poetry inspired by the Gospel history of the life of Christ. She published the volumes between 1908 and 1914. She intended to write two more volumes, but it has been assumed that she never started them. Recently, however, Linda Fern recognized that some of the handwritten pages in Charlotte Mason’s archive …
In the summer of 2010, I had the privilege of meeting Jason Fletcher, who is the director of a Charlotte Mason school in Cambridge, England. Jason is personally connected to the Charlotte Mason story in that his wife Fiona is the daughter of Susan Schaeffer Macaulay, author of For the Children’s Sake. I remember very …