Fictions of Conversion FICTION / Ghost In Shrinking Violets and Caspar

In Shrinking Violets and Caspar Milquetoasts

why they do or don’t choose to serve openly

has worked for decades driving a taxi to support his family

Throughout the twentieth century

debating their authenticity

Fictions of Conversion FICTION / Ghost In Shrinking Violets and CasparThe fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross