Elizabeth Anne (McCaul) Finn witnessed and vividly portrayed the daily life of Jerusalem against the background of large historical events such as the Crimean War and the establishment of the major European consulates in Palestine. An evangelical Christian and millenarian Zionist schooled in ancient languages and theological controversies, she was the wife of James Finn, British consul to Jerusalem from 1846 to 1863. During her residence in Jerusalem and upon her return to England, she wrote and published a fictional account of the experiences of English Christian misssionaries to the Mideast derived from firsthand observations of Jerusalem's culture, as well as an annotated collection of lithographs based on her sketches of the biblical landscape that she understood in depth. After her husband's death she edited and wrote substantial annotations to his memoirs, Stirring Times; or, Records from Jerusalem Consular Chronicles of 1853 to 1856 (1878), an analysis of conditions in Palestine during the...