Glossary
The glossary includes essential terms related to the person, life, and work of Chesterton. For reasons of space it must inevitably be incomplete. It includes the most important people – family, friends, contemporaries and adversaries -, the most significant places – streets, neighborhoods, buildings, literary, cultural and religious associations – and the most important public activities – conferences, debates, meetings, congresses , election campaigns and travel.
There are currently 8 terms in this directory beginning with the letter N.
National Catholic Congress, The
Coinciding with the Centenary of Catholic Emancipation in September 1929, a Catholic congress was held in London; Chesterton intervened in it with the lecture The Emancipation of the Atheist, organised by the Catholic Evidence Guilds at the Cecil Hotel.
National League for Clean Government, The
Chesterton was a prominent member of this League which, in 1913, sponsored meetings to attack Jewish influence on public morals.
New Witness, The
In 1912 The Eye Witness went bankrupt; it changed the heading for The New Witness and received financial aid from Edward Chesterton; Gilbert took on the post of editor when Cecil enlisted in 1916, during the Great War; it came out during the period 1912-1923.
Nobel Prize 1935
Chesterton was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 1935 by Torsten Fogelqvist, author and member of the Swedish Academy.
Noel, Conrad (1869-1942)
English Church of England priest; known as the “Red Vicar” of Thaxted, he was a prominent British Christian socialist; he became friends with Chesterton in 1901; he was an active member of the Christian Social Union (CSU), a distinguished Anglo-Catholic organisation; Noel had considerable bearing on Gilbert and Cecil; he made them contemplate seriously the Church’s social doctrine; the Chestertons often went to his place in Paddington Green parish.
Notre Dame University
Catholic university located in Notre Dame (Indiana, USA); for six weeks in 1930 Chesterton gave a series of lectures there on Victorian literature; in November he was appointed Honorary Doctor of Laws by the university.
Notting Hill
Affluent neighbourhood in West London which is part of the Kensington and Chelsea district; the action of The Napoleon of Notting Hill (1904), Chesterton’s first novel, is set in this urban placement, very familiar to and much loved by the author.
Nova Revista, La
Monthly review dedicated to high culture, with a cosmopolitan outlook and centred mostly in literature and the plastic arts, published in Barcelona from January 1927 to July 1929 and directed by Josep M. Junoy; a section dedicated to “Els Amics de Chesterton” (“The Friends of Chesterton”) was included with the help of Pau Romeva, and it sponsored the translation of Chesterton’s first works into Catalan.