Roman Catholic Church

She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became...

The influence of Denys Blakelock seems to have been decisive in EF 's reception into the Catholic Church in August 1951, not long after her honeymoon with the actor. This event, which she presented to...

Her family's titles, wealth, elite status, and remarkable record of high ability were somewhat offset by the RomanCatholic faith which excluded them from some of the civil rights and privileges possessed by other English or...

Born to English parents, CMB came from a middle-class, presumably white background. Shortly after her birth her parents, Benjamin and Charlotte Law, converted to Catholicism . It seems that early fears over the infant Charlotte's...

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...

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....

ML was a Roman Catholic . In Massachusetts religious observance was a relaxed affair. An altar was set up for Mass every Saturday night in the local movie house after the films were over, and...

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.

She came of fully Italian blood on her father's side, and half-Italian, half-English on her mother's. In a piece on Petrarch , she claimed that family documents proved her descent from his muse, Laura...

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...

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...

She was born a Creole or white West Indian of English, Scottish, and French origins. She made her adult life as an Englishwoman. Her father was an Anglican while her mother was a bad Catholic...

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.