"What's the most important event in woman's history?"
According to the book I am reading, Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters, this question was once publically offered to an english novelist named Alice Thomas Ellis. Now, I'd never heard of this author before (perhaps to my shame), but her answer convinced me that I needed to learn more about her. In reply, she said simply: "The Annunciation."
Apparently Alice Thomas Ellis reposed almost two years ago and an article in the Telegraph gives us some insight into who she was. A staunch defender of traditional catholicsm and I suppose traditionalism in general, however she was raised in a pecuilar sort of atheism until she "no longer found it possible to disbelieve in God" (which rings a very familiar chord with me.)
When asked about pop teen fiction she encopuraged parents not to let them rad it, saying: "They are narcissistic enough and should be encouraged to snap out of it. Make them read Crime and Punishment and dock their pocket money if you catch them reading tripe."
And one more intriguing quote: "Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification."
Anyone read her work?
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