Roman Catholic Church

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...

HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .

This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she...

After the war, CC 's search for religious belief involved her for a while in spiritualism. She believed that on one occasion when she and her husband lost themselves in a country lane they had...

EF 's father, born an orthodox Jew, was non-practising; he did not have his children baptised, though their mother taught them to say Christian prayers. Eleanor's upbringing was Bohemian and unconventional: she did not attend...

Though KOB 's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...

SD grew up in a working-class family in Lancashire. Though her father was Catholic as well as half-Irish, she did not consider herself to be Catholic. When she became famous at the age of...

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 ...

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...

LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

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.

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...