Newman: The Pillar of the Cloud

by Meriol Trevor

Genres: Spirituality, Theology

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1962

About the author

The prolific Meriol Trevor, BA, FRSL was a writer of novels, biographies, and children's books. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Trevor wrote a two-volume biography of John Henry Newman (The Pillar of the Cloud and Light in Winter) which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1962.

Reviews

[Fr. Peter Mottola · Rating 5 out of 5]

These two volumes ("The Pillar of the Cloud" and "Light in Winter") form one of the best biographies I have ever read. They left me wanting to be more like their subject, and gave me some insights into how Newman dealt with his many sufferings (peculiarly modern and much like our own). The author lets her sympathy for Newman drive her to belabor the injustices done him—something, she points out, Newman never did on his own behalf!—but this serves only to cast into starker relief Newman's own love for his persecutors.

Highly recommended to all lovers of biography, England, 19th century history, and/or Catholicism.