Roman Catholic Church

HW was received into the Roman Catholic Church under the religious name of Mary Magdalen.

Brought up in the observance of Judaism , HPrenounced religion as soon as his bar mitzvah was over, although his Jewish identity continued to be important to him. He became in maturity a determinedly...

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.

Near the time of her marriage, CC converted to Catholicism , her husband's faith. From this point onwards she remained a devout Catholic.

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.

Her parents belonged to the educated, professional middle class, and were practising Christians within the Church of England , where (even to a teenager beginning to experience doubts) the services were beautiful with candlelight and...

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...

She was brought up a Baptist (baptised into that church at the age of thirteen). She later moved away from the god of her childhood (a god of vengeance, she said). Very much wishing to...

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...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

During this London visit she is said to have converted others to Catholicism and to have had an ecstatic vision of her own. She experienced another vision two years later, and another at St Omer...

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...

In her youth AB had a cousin who faithfully attended Mass. She later built friendships with several Anglican and Catholic clergy, visited monasteries in China and Albania during her travels, and eventually became a Roman Catholic

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...