Writer and Cultural Commentator

Ellen Fielding

2 articles 1996

Ellen Fielding is a writer who contributed to The Weekly Standard in 1996. She wrote on topics related to religion and heroism for the magazine.

A Hero's Religion

May 27, 1996 · Ellen Fielding, Casual, Magazine

I was astonished to read in Noemie Emery's article on Eleanor Roosevelt that Mrs. Roosevelt disliked "lower class, fat, ostentatiously Catholic [Whittaker] Chambers" ("Mrs. Roosevelt, Liberal Icon," May 13)l. As an ostentatious Catholic myself, I don't doubt Mrs. Roosevelt's distaste, but Chamber's…

A Hero's Religion

May 27, 1996 · Ellen Fielding, Casual, Magazine

I was astonished to read in Noemie Emery's article on Eleanor Roosevelt that Mrs. Roosevelt disliked "lower class, fat, ostentatiously Catholic [Whittaker] Chambers" ("Mrs. Roosevelt, Liberal Icon," May 13)l. As an ostentatious Catholic myself, I don't doubt Mrs. Roosevelt's distaste, but Chamber's…