Roman Catholic Church

The protagonist of The Deserter is a young Irish soldier in the British army. When he deserts (having got into bad company) he is arrested and re-possessed by the army. Serving in India, he...

Yet often the political critique runs counter to the novel's religous concerns. Indeed, even as it attacks the outrageous conditions of the industrial poor, the novel seems to welcome the moral scourge they provide, as...

Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew , Katherine Hut , and Elizabeth Thackvel . The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr...

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

She was buried in the Roman Catholic section of the Gravesend cemetery. Her husband outlived her by fourteen years.

Both of KCT 's parents were Irish Catholics , and in comfortable financial circumstances. Her birth family was comprised of professionals and merchants, members of the rising middle class. Her childhood home...

DT , Welsh poet, died of pneumonia in St Vincent's, a private hospital in New York run by Roman Catholic nuns. He had been in a deep coma for four or five days.

GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.

She was a cradle Catholic born into an English gentry family which harboured priests, celebrated the mass in secret, and suffered persecution for their faith. A recent commentator, Dorothy L. Latz , regrets the way...

Sydney Owenson was born to an English Methodist mother with leanings towards the sect called the Countess of Huntingdon's Connection , and an Irish, originally Catholic , father. She aligned herself strongly with the Irish...

AS begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect...

She was born into the English gentry and at a time of religious turmoil and change she probably held to the old religion of Catholicism , not openly but at least in sympathy, in view...

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...

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.