… Edmund Campion: A more than academic English martyr | Catholic Culture. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Waugh’s is not a scholarly or academic biography. It is rather, as the novelist Graham Green remarked, “a model of what a short biography should be”. In the Preface to the first edition, the author explains that he has deliberately chosen to avoid excessive notes as well, offering references only where “the actual words of a document are quoted, or where the point is likely to be controversial.” The second appendix provides what was at that time a list of the most readily available sources on which Waugh relied for his research.
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