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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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G.K. Chesterton
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(Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874–1936) Author best known now for his short stories featuring an unassuming but brilliantly intuitive amateur detective, Father Brown (a Roman Catholic parish priest who first appeared in The Innocence of Father Brown 1911). He is also remembered for some of his poems. These include The Rolling English Road ('The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road') and The Donkey, in which 'the devil's walking parody on all four-footed things' reminds the reader that he too had his hour, in Jerusalem, with palms before his feet. Chesterton, a close friend of Hilaire *Belloc, converted to Roman Catholicism in 1922; he was received into the church by Father John O'Connor, who had been the inspiration for Father Brown.
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