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The following lecture was presented in July 2019 at the Biennial Conference on Catholicism, Literature and the Arts—organized in partnership by the Centre for Catholic Studies, the University of Notre Dame and Ushaw College.

The lecture was given by Professor Patricia Waugh, Professor in the Department of English at Durham University, and is entitled ‘Muriel Spark’s Imagination: Creativity as Spiritual Exercise’