Christina Rossetti published Time Flies: A Reading Diary under direction of the Tract Committee. The Tract Committee is tied to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in London. The use of this publisher is consistent considering the form and content of this collection: highly devotional and introspective. Throughout the collection, Rossetti has the reader consider explicitly spirtual ideas as well as seemingly mundane experiences. This work has multiple poems and entries concerning nature and humanity's relationship to nature. The publishing of this work at this time was relevant, as Darwinian thought and ideas were circulating and challenging Orthodox Christianity. Rossetti offered a model for how Christians should begin to reconcile the realities of nature and God.