Ian Ker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199601288
- eISBN:
- 9780191806582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199601288.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's travel to America in 1921 with his wife Frances and his conversion to Catholicism a year later. It first considers Chesterton's reaction to Herbert Samuel's ...
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This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's travel to America in 1921 with his wife Frances and his conversion to Catholicism a year later. It first considers Chesterton's reaction to Herbert Samuel's appointment in June 1920 as High Commissioner in Palestine and the financial difficulties experienced by his paper, New Witness. It then looks at the letters written by Chesterton to various people, including Maurice Baring. It also examines Chesterton's views on Anglicanism and concludes by discussing his conversion to Catholicism.Less
This chapter focuses on G. K. Chesterton's travel to America in 1921 with his wife Frances and his conversion to Catholicism a year later. It first considers Chesterton's reaction to Herbert Samuel's appointment in June 1920 as High Commissioner in Palestine and the financial difficulties experienced by his paper, New Witness. It then looks at the letters written by Chesterton to various people, including Maurice Baring. It also examines Chesterton's views on Anglicanism and concludes by discussing his conversion to Catholicism.
