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John Henry Newman was a voracious, lifelong reader of fiction. He used novels as a way to “unbend” his mind. Beyond the English giants, Scott, Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackery, his reading habits were eclectic, ranging from contemporary bestsellers to European and American classics. In The Idea of a University (1854), NewmanContinue reading “Newman the Novel Reader”