Hello dear ones,

I’m so glad you’re here. My name is Megan Madden, I’m a wife to a professor in Oxford, mum of six, homemaker, homeschooler, author, speaker, and content creator. If you ask me how I accomplish the extras, I’d have to say it’s only by the grace of God. He’s moved me to write and evangelize in a world facing an identity crisis. A world desperately in need of the truth about femininity and the knowledge of what it means to be a woman.

I began A Mother’s Lace a few years back, after over a decade off of social media. I was busily growing in motherhood in quiet and joyful days of service: sweeping, mopping, folding, teaching, holding, nursing, praying, playing, resting, reading, and studying.

My studies lead me to graduate school a few different times, but my motherhood came first. I never finished. Something I have no qualms with. I read, and I read on in whatever free time I had, looking at the philosophy behind authentic femininity from the wisdom of the Church—the saints—in Sacred Scripture. These studies, specifically while living in Austria and Poland, lead to conclusions to my questions about what it means to be a woman. But that’s not the whole of the story…

During these years I miscarried (x4 now) and faced my own death twice. In the midst of this purgation I fell irrevocably in love with the Holy Cross—clinging to Christ on it, promising to remain there, in the gentle bonds of love where Christ allows the bitter sips of suffering, made ever so sweet. My heart was moved and I’ve never been the same since. The Lord placed in the depths of my heart a mission for

womanhood—for motherhood, be it spiritual or physical. A heart beating for the epitome of Woman: the perfect example found in His Mother and our Mother, our primary guide to femininity. Then A Mother’s Lace, named after St. Zélie and dedicated to Our Lady, began.

We moved to England for my husband’s work, and currently reside in an old victorian style home with multiple small rooms and painted wallpaper. It was here in England that I wrote Mary, Teach Me To Be Your Daughter: Finding Yourself in the Blessed Mother, published with Ascension Press. In this writing project my conclusions about authentic femininity, Marian imitation, meditations, contemplation, and heart for womanhood poured onto paper. I found in the writing process that I was keen to write more. And so book manuscript number two began and will be coming out in 2025 with Ascension Press (stay tuned!).

Wherever you are in your feminine journey, I’d like to meet you there, dears. Together I hope to unravel the lies of feminism and live fully the truth of what it means to be a timeless, feminine woman.

In the Immaculate Heart,