Just realized today that the late Roland Hill, the "modern biographer of Lord Acton," was a convert himself.
He published a memoir, A Time Out of Joint.
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
The Decadents Ended Up As Catholics
Nice piece on a flush of new books on the Decadents by Michael Dirda today: The ’90s are having a literary moment.That is, the 1890s. . .
I note in the comments: "What do Frederick Rolfe, Aubrey Beardsley, Lionel Johnson, Alfred
Douglas, Oscar Wilde, and Pamela Colman Smith all have in common? They were converts to the Catholic Church."
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