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Saint John Henry

Richard Altick, 5 August 1982

John Henry Newman: His Life and Work 
by Brian Martin.
Chatto, 160 pp., £8.95, May 1982, 0 7011 2588 8
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Protestant versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England 
by Walter Arnstein.
Missouri, 271 pp., £14, June 1982, 9780826203540
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... in the esteem of his countrymen: but anti-Catholic sentiment remained vigorous and often vehement. Walter Arnstein’s scholarly study shows that the militancy of Protestant and Roman Catholic alike continued to keep religious issues aflame in Parliament and press. The tireless efforts of the anti-Catholic MP Charles Newdegate to suppress nunneries ...

This Singing Thing

Malin Hay: On Barbra Streisand, 12 September 2024

My Name Is Barbra 
by Barbra Streisand.
Century, 992 pp., £35, November 2023, 978 1 5291 3689 0
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... it isn’t clear) with her co-star, Sydney Chaplin, who played Brice’s feckless husband, Nicky Arnstein. After she told him that she loved Gould and couldn’t continue, he made each performance hell, whispering obscenities under his breath when he was supposed to be romancing her. She became so distressed that she regularly threw up before ...

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