Alice Thomas Ellis
The Catholic bohemian who mocked feminists
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
The McMahon ‘pick’ represents a spreading of the net, though not perhaps a very dramatic one
The remarkable resilience of Welsh culture
St David’s Day is just one example of the great strength of Welsh traditions
How great tragedy inspires great art
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?
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
She was yet another lapsed Catholic estranged by ‘the Spirit of Vatican II’
