Roman Catholic Church

Mary Ackland (later VA ) was received (with her new husband, Richard Turpin ) into the Catholic Church.

Lady Falkland 's four youngest daughters grew up while their mother was still nominally a Protestant and their father, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was systematically persecuting Catholics. After his death they lived as Protestants...

Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...

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...

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...

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

Her family was mixed, her mother being an English Methodist and her father an Irish Catholic , who had moved away from his Celtic roots by changing his name from MacOwen to Owenson and his...

She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture...

At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).

LM was born into the English professional class or intelligentsia. She grew up in the heart of the Church of England , but later, despite the irreverence with which her writings handle religious topics, converted...

She belonged to the English gentry class, but within her class she belonged to a disadvantaged minority: she was, like her family, a recusant Catholic .

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

She grew up with English and Irish Catholic parents of working-class background, living in council housing behind the Caledonian Canal at 92 St Valery in Inverness. The Smith family was fortunate to secure such...

She clearly sprang from an educated segment of society, probably the gentry. It seems fairly certain that she was a Roman Catholic .