All her stained glass was made in collaboration with Lowndes and Drury at the Glass House in Fulham. Apart from work detailed below, The Stained Glass Museum have a sample of her work although they add that it may have been the work of Joan Fulleylove.[4]
By 1912 Esplin had finished seven stained glass windows for the Anglican All Saints' Cathedral in Khartoum.[3]
In 1911 she was to design seven lancet windows and in 1912 lancet windows for the north wall of the north transept (The Gordon Memorial Chapel) which depicted St Edmund, St Theodore and St Sebastian. She also completed in that year a three-light window for the Gordon Memorial Chapel with the theme "Hope, Faith and Charity". 1914 saw her complete a circular West window for the South Transept and a circular East window depicting "Death and Resurrection" and another three-light window in the Gordon Memorial Chapel with the theme "Fortitude, Justice and Wisdom". In one window and in an attempt to introduce local colour, the figure of Balthazar was portrayed in the costume of a Sudanese Sheikh.[2]
Due to her ill health, Mabel was unable to complete the Khartoum commission and remaining windows were carried out by Joan Fulleylove who had earlier worked as Mabel's assistant.[nb 1]
Khartoum Cathedral was confiscated by the Sudan government in 1971 and the church's tower knocked down in October 1996. The cathedral was turned into a museum which was named the Republican Palace Museum and opened in the year 2000. The museum has left the stained glass windows intact.[6]
Mabel managed work for two English churches, St John the Divine, Richmond, Surrey and St Anne’s, Lewes, Sussex.[7] At St John the Divine she executed two single light windows for the Chancel in 1912, one entitled "Spes" and the other "Mater Dolorosa".[8] She worked at St Anne's, Lewes, in 1913 where she completed a single light window in the North Nave depicting St Anne teaching the Blessed Virgin Mary to read.[9]
In 1916 she suffered a serious mental breakdown and was unable to continue her work in stained glass. She died in a nursing home at Haydock in Lancashire on 30 April 1921.[2]
^One such window was made 1919/20 entitled "Patience, Temperance and Chastity". Fulleylove also designed a three-light window for St Mary's Church in Fulham.[5]
^ abOZ Glass. Quarterly publication of Ausglass, The National Body of Australian Glass Artists. April 1986. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ abc"Women Stained Glass Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement" William Morris Gallery Exhibition and Brangwyn Gift in 1985. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
