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...

AOK was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant , and her father Catholic . AOK says that she never experienced...

As a child, VA was a fervent Anglo-Catholic, following her mother's example. Later in life she became a Roman Catholic , struggled with her Catholicism, and eventually became a Quaker .

AC 's mother was a Roman Catholic and the two attended church together for much of her childhood.AC felt a great comfort in attending mass with her mother and remembers, fondly, the smell...

After her mother 's conversion Lady Gertrude Douglas (later GD ) lost no time in becoming a Catholic herself. She was received into the Church as soon as she arrived in France.

In the aftermath of his trial, OW was widely pilloried in the press, his homosexuality abused by all of the covert means available. He became a convert to Roman Catholicism .

GT was a member of an English gentry family who became Roman Catholics during her childhood. Her minority religious allegiance shaped her life.

Since he was born and faithfully remained a Catholic , he was excluded from university, from government jobs, and latterly from residing in London or owning a horse worth more than a certain sum.

FK was presumably white, although Brenda Colloms describes her physical appearance as dark and handsome in a buxom, Spanish style. Her family was English and engaged in commerce on her father's side, Anglo-Irish and aristocratic...

Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...

MCC was born into a professional, English family of European extraction (her father was half Italian and her mother half German) and Roman Catholic religion. Mary writes of her early, Catholic church attendance in terms...

AG , a fervent Christian believer, seems to have remained in the Church of England , in which she was brought up, but her many printed pleas for religious ecumenism may have been fuelled by...

Born to an English propertied family that in her generation was part of the British colonial administrative class, DB incorporated her experiences in South America into some of her later writing. She was or became...

The new vicar (who did not live in the parish) respected her so highly that he allowed her to appoint a curate (the vicar's substitute) of her own choice, Mr Horne. She was personally sorry...

Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...