Roman Catholic Church

In about 1940 both NRS and her husband became converts to Roman Catholicism , a faith to which she was led by Evelyn Underhill and by two Jesuit priests, Martin d'Arcy (while she and her...

The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF

She came from a well-educated, Bohemian family of atheists who, however, sent her to a Roman Catholic school.

On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...

ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH chose the Catholicism of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant.

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

After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .

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...

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

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...

MW was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. She later defied convention in several respects—in her second marriage and her...

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...

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...