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THE lady in black, who presided over literary gatherings, at which guests could scrape their nails through the smoke to watch the level on the wine bottles sink at an alarming pace, had hoped to be a nun.
In 1996, many years after that ambition had been thwarted, Alice Thomas Ellis thundered the ground under the liberal wing of her church with an article in the Catholic Herald, which she edited, arguing that the recently deceased Derek Worlock, former Archbishop of Liverpool, had diluted the ancient faith with his espousal of ecumenicism.See the full content of this document
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Obituary: Alice Thomas Ellis
She was sacked. But some admired the trenchant opinions of the writer, who had b...
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