The first Wednesday of each month brings Open Book, a blog linkup co-hosted by My Scribbler’s Heart and CatholicMom.com with a roundup of what participating bloggers have been reading lately. The recent feast of St. Edmund Campion prompted me to pick up Evelyn Waugh’s Campion biography for the first time in many years. I raved about theContinue reading “Open Book: an assortment of biographies”
Author Archives: Ellen Kolb
Writer, activist, Granite State walker.
Waugh on Campion
Today is the feast of St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit priest and English Elizabethan martyr. His story was told in 1935 by Evelyn Waugh, better known for his fiction, chief of which in my estimation is Brideshead Revisited. Waugh wrote in the Preface to Saint Edmund Campion that he was not attempting a scholar’s approach to his subject.Continue reading “Waugh on Campion”
Appreciating Advent
This post originally appeared at Leaven for the Loaf. I look forward to Advent every year. I actually look forward to rummaging through the candle drawer for the little purple votives (and I know there’s a pink in there somewhere). I like putting a purple-beribboned wreath on the front door, even when it’s a premadeContinue reading “Appreciating Advent”
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