Roman Catholic Church

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...

The idea of awaking a feeling of superiority to Italian religion backfired. They saw the Catholic Church in Italy as providing religion not for the few but for the many: that man in the street...

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...

Alice Thompson (later AM ) was born into the upper-middle class, though on her father's side the family history included illegitimacy and Creole blood, that is a mixture of Jamaican-born (most probably white) and English...

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

JD sealed his conversion from Roman Catholicism (probably long since complete) by being ordained a priest of the Church of England at St Paul's Cathedral, of which he was later to become Dean.

Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller. At more than one stage of her life...

HM was born into a wealthy business family which struck Virginia Woolf as typical[ly] English (though in fact both of her parents were Scots). She converted to Roman Catholicism in the late 1920s....

Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...

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...

GC , resident among a fervently Catholic group at Baddesley Clinton, converted to Roman Catholicism . This was ten years after her second husband 's conversion, and only six months before her death.

When she was reduced to looking for work as a governess she found it a disadvantage to be not a member of the Church of England.

Born into the English gentry class only a generation after the Church of England came into existence as distinct from the Roman Catholic Church , EG was almost certainly a recusant or closet adherent of...

Born into the rising English gentry and into the then nationally practised Roman Catholic faith, she later made choice of the new or reformed religion of Protestantism . (As the Puritan John Field put it...