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Article: Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram, Life and Architecture.
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- March 8, 1996
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Cousin Jasper was right. In his advice to Charles Ryder, the protagonist of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited, upon the latter's coming-up to Oxford, Jasper lists people and groups to be avoided: "Beware of the Anglo-Catholics--they're all sodomites with unpleasant accents." If we are to believe the most recent of the novelist's biographers--assuming Charles Ryder is, indeed, his alter ego--Waugh did nothing of the kind. Neither did Ralph Adams Cram, the American architect, convert to Anglo-Catholicism from New Hampshire Unitarianism, and one of the founders of Commonweal.
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