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Alice Thomas Ellis
Doctors forget they are plumbers
July 05, 2021
The highly praised novelist, columnist for The Spectator, The Oldie, and The Catholic Herald, creator of cookbooks, and Duckworth’s fiction editor, Alice Thomas Ellis was both a smoker and a contrarian. Here, writing in 1993, she writes as both. She expresses skepticism about the expertise of doctors some will feel relevant at the moment. Cat
The Catholic bohemian who mocked feminists
August 24, 2017
Alice Thomas Ellis was a novelist, controversialist and party hostess, but above all else a Catholic
The Pope’s choice for the new Archbishop of Liverpool shows that he is prepared to search far and wide for new bishops
March 21, 2014
The McMahon ‘pick’ represents a spreading of the net, though not perhaps a very dramatic one
The remarkable resilience of Welsh culture
March 02, 2012
St David's Day is just one example of the great strength of Welsh traditions
How great tragedy inspires great art
November 04, 2011
Alice Thomas Ellis’s life was overshadowed by tragedy, and so makes great reading in this, the month of death
Alice Thomas Ellis: isn’t it time someone wrote her biography?
March 22, 2011
She was a highly significant writer, and nearly every important literary person passed through her kitchen
My memories of Beryl Bainbridge are stamped with her wonderful eccentricity
July 14, 2010
She was yet another lapsed Catholic estranged by 'the Spirit of Vatican II'
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