Convent Thoughts [SEP] collection
. Her costume shows that she is a novice, presumably meditating on her final vows.
The flowers were painted in the Oxford garden of Thomas Combe, an early collector of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and the model was his housemaid, Frances Sarah Ludlow, later Mrs Brucker. Combe bought the painting; in 1894 he bequeathed his art collection to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and "Convent Thoughts" remains in the Museum's collection.
Although Collins was never formally a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he
- 1978: "Thoughts of a Late-Night Knitter". London: Arrow Books
- 1978: "All of Pam's Poetry"; illustrated by Roy Garnham Elmore. London: Hutchinson (including the contents of her first three books)
- 1985: "Dear Mum: Poems for Mums and their Babies". London: Severn House Publishers
- 1992: "Pam Ayres: the Works". London: BBC Books, Sep 1992
- 1998: "With These Hands: a collection"