Roman Catholic Church

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

The novel consistently attacks Roman Catholics as prejudiced, supersititious, and dangerously under the thrall of their priests. Through O'Brien, HJ blames the poor for their own poverty, painting them as stupidly resistant to change that...

MR 's account of her first voyage (based on journals kept at the time) enthusiastically describes tropical birds, flying fish, marine phosphorescence, and waterspouts; the markets, salt pans, and mountains of St Kitts. She...

This book takes up some of the same themes as The Lardners and the Laurelwoods, 1948. Through its narrator, the not entirely sympathetically presented Parson Carpenter, this novel offers another two-generation story of the...

The award required that its winner spend three months in a foreign country, observing the ways of people in another culture. EJ felt most grateful for the enjoyable experience, terming her Italian travels the happiest...

Commissioned by a London publishing house to write about the Mexican Catholic church , GG travelled to Mexico.

The Lincoln's Inn Fields house of Lord Powis (recently released after years in prison on suspicion of treasonable Catholic plotting, father of future writers Lucy and Winifred ) was burned to the ground by chance...

That estimate covered what remained after giving large sums away, much of it to medical research. The Cookson mouse has been developed to bear the gene for haemorrhagic teleangiectasia: hopefully a step towards a cure...