Roman Catholic Church

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

After EW 's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...

SM provided an introduction to Antonia White 's The Hound and the Falcon (the novel in which White describes her return to the Roman Catholic Church ), when it was reprinted by Virago in 1982...

The fact that this was the last book HM published is attributed by Tillotson to the difficulties of her divided life . . . . The very success of her books disturbed her, as a...

In the first edition EG 's own prefatory epistle introduces fourteen chapters or sections. The book was clearly popular, since further editions followed in probably 1606, probably 1608 (with the altered title Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations...

She says in her preface: Again and again Boccaccio repeated that he wrote for women's instruction and delight, yet none but men have written about him. She called the Decameronthat radiant and lovely...

After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.

GBS published a somewhat different kind of memoir in All in Good Time, which describes the train of thinking that brought her from the non-practising Judaism of her childhood into the Roman Catholic Church .

Henry Moore included in his life of MBF two letters she wrote to Samuel Walter (one before and one after he came as curate to Madeley) and two which she wrote to an unnamed Roman Catholic

EU published with HeinemannThe Miracles of Our Lady Saint Mary, an anthology of translated fairytales of mediæval Catholicism .

Anti-Catholic sentiments are related through the vehicle of a romance in which a young Italian-French heroine is persuaded by a suitor to give up her loyalty to a useless priest.

GBS published The Way It Worked Out, a sequel to All in Good Time, which presents her continuing cogitations, as a Catholic, on Judaism and Roman Catholicism .

EW published Spiritual Thrift; or, Meditations Wherein Humble Christians (as in a Mirrour) May View the Verity of Their Saving Graces, a Puritan devotional pamphlet which attacks both Catholics and sectaries .

While in her works for young people CS gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church