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Article: Partners in Protest: Life with Canon Collins.
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- Contemporary Review
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- May 1, 1993
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Ostensibly, this book is a biography of John Collins -- universally known to his contemporaries during most of his public lifetime as Canon Collins -- and a very good biography it is. But it is much more than that, for it is also an autobiography of his widow, Diana, so that by the end of the book some readers may feel that they know her even better than they know her husband, John; though that is far from being a criticism. Indeed, in some ways she comes through as the more attractive of the two -- remarkably honest, warm, impulsive, courageous, and loving -- while John, who started his adult life as fellow, dean, and chaplain of Oriel College, Oxford, seems to have ...
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