Self-Surrender and Self-Will contains nine short treatises addressed to the Community of the Sisters of the Church, a religious order of women in various Anglican provinces who live the vowed life of poverty, chastity and obedience. As Berkeley William Randolph states in the preface, “these short addresses seem to me to be quite excellently adapted for reading or meditation in Religious Houses.”
Berkeley William Randolph (1858–1925) was educated at Haileybury and Balliol College, Oxford, and was ordained a priest in 1882. He was a fellow of St. Augustine’s College, Canterbury, from 1880 to 1883, and principal of St. Stephen’s House, Oxford, from 1884 to 1885. He was then appointed principal of Ely Theological College in 1891.