CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Table of national estimates of conversions/receptions in England and Wales, 1911–2022 ix
4. Introduction 1
5. chapter 1 The 1890s 13
6. chapter 2 Oscar Wilde 23
7. chapter 3 Aubrey Beardsley 39
8. chapter 4 John Gray 51
9. chapter 5 The Church in 1900 62
10. chapter 6 Gwen John 69
11. chapter 7 Lord Alfred Douglas 80
12. chapter 8 John Henry Newman and Anglo-Catholicism 95
13. chapter 9 R.H. Benson 109
14. chapter 10 G.K. Chesterton and the Chesterbelloc 125
15. chapter 11 Maurice Baring 140
16. chapter 12 The Church and the War 150
17. chapter 13 David Jones 159
18. chapter 14 Between the Wars 176
19. chapter 15 Evelyn Waugh 185
20. chapter 16 A Newspaper Controversy about Conversion 200
21. chapter 17 Graham Greene 204
22. chapter 18 The Convert Makers 219
23. chapter 19 Vincent McNabb and a Convert 233
24. chapter 20 Gain and Loss 240
25. chapter 21 Muriel Spark 245
26. chapter 22 Elizabeth Anscombe 258
27. chapter 23 Siegfried Sassoon 273
28. chapter 24 Gain and Loss 286
29. Epilogue 297
30. PLATES 298
31. Notes 300
32. Select Bibliography 334
33. Acknowledgements 339
34. Index 341