https://anitamathias.com Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:53:00 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://anitamathias.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/cropped-Anita_lgr_hi_res_square_512-32x32.jpg https://anitamathias.com 32 32 https://anitamathias.com/2010/11/26/diana-holman-hunt-my-grandmothers-and-i/ Fri, 26 Nov 2010 19:53:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/11/26/diana-holman-hunt-my-grandmothers-and-i/ Diana Holman-Hunt—“My Grandmothers and I”Diana Holman-Hunt’s “My grandmothers and I” is thoroughly enjoyable. As her name suggests, she is the grand-daughter of William Holman-Hunt who has given us iconic and beloved images like Light of the World. She was also, on her mother’s side, the great-niece of Millais.Nothing guarantees happiness, of course, not even  the most […]

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The post Father and Son by Edmund Gosse: a Memoir of Science and Faith first appeared on Anita Mathias: Dreaming Beneath the Spires.]]> https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/01/mary-mccarthy-memories-of-a-catholic-girlhood/ https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/01/mary-mccarthy-memories-of-a-catholic-girlhood/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:22:00 +0000 https://anitamathias.com/2010/10/01/mary-mccarthy-memories-of-a-catholic-girlhood/ Mary McCarthy, Memories of a Catholic GirlhoodI really enjoyed the spare elegance of this memoir. It is a New Yorker style memoir, much like Nabokov’s “Speak Memory,” and I must say there are worse things than New Yorker style memoirs.Each chapter was originally a self-contained (and well-paid) essay published in the New Yorker. Together they […]

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