Roman Catholic Church

TD was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church . Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class.

Antonia converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism at the age of about thirteen, when her mother did. (Her father had already converted in 1940, but she says her parents put no pressure on her.) Being a...

She then went through a spiritual night of doubt and perplexity after a passionate persuasion by a Carmelite nun friend to become a Catholic . She next became a High Church Anglican ...

HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.

Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...

EB was born into an English gentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was...

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

VM 's childhood home was a cultural centre for Roman Catholics such as the poets Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore . She was influenced by her parents' literary activities, as well as by her mother's...

CT was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic heritage on her mother's side.

Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...

Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism . He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at...

Born into the English professional class, GG became a RomanCatholic because of the woman he married. He always remained a Catholic, but his novels frequently treat the pain of conflicted religious belief, and late in...

Born into the English gentry at a period of harsh persecution, she was a cradle Catholic (and a fervent one) whose ideas for new departures within the Church often led her into conflict with its...

EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican . She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...

JS was a white Scotswoman of the land-owning and business class. She was a Presbyterian by birth and training; as an adult she was in principle broad-minded and tolerant of religious difference, except for being...