Leaving it
Rosemary Ashton, 16 February 1989
John Henry Newman: A Biography
by Ian Ker.
Oxford, 762 pp., £48, January 1989,0 19 826451 8 Show More
by Ian Ker.
Oxford, 762 pp., £48, January 1989,
James Fitzjames Stephen: Portrait of a Victorian Rationalist
by K.J.M. Smith.
Cambridge, 338 pp., £30, November 1988,0 521 34029 2 Show More
by K.J.M. Smith.
Cambridge, 338 pp., £30, November 1988,
“... Ker’s life of Newman is massive, expansive, reverential towards its subject, while Smith’s life of Stephen is terse, matter-of-fact, and unblinkingly critical of its subject’s failings. Ker rightly declares the need for a new biography of Newman, on the grounds both that Wilfrid Ward’s Life of 1912 is unfairly brief on the Anglican half ... ”
