Roman Catholic Church

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...

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

Mullinahack is not a country estate but a district of Dublin. Byrne was a wealthy middle-class mercant and a supporter of Catholic emancipation. His bride was, according to the Hibernian Magazine for this month, a...

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 .

The sequel follows Robert's idealised, but doomed, relationship with Bridget, the heroine of the previous novel. After trials that culminate in Bridget's learning that her first husband is still alive, the couple split, and Robert...

In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG compared the forms of Roman Catholicism practised in England and in Continental Europe.

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.

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...

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...

Fisher had been Bishop of Rochester when he incurred Henry's wrath for opposing his first divorce, and was executed on 22 June 1535. He was regarded by the Catholic Church as a saint and martyr...

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 .

She had been still writing it in the USA and after her return to London at the beginning of this year after its serialization had begun. A New York edition posthumously published this month...

FT published the three-volume anti-Jesuit , arguably anti-Catholic novel Father Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits.

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 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...