Roman Catholic Church

EN was born in the English middle class (though she had some Irish and Swedish blood) and brought up as an Anglican. She became a socialist and a feminist, although with some reservations and...

GF, hitherto a member of the Church ofEngland, was received into the Roman CatholicChurch by a Father Brownbill.

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...

Brought up by a Roman Catholic foster-mother, sent to an Anglican mission school at thirteen and made to change her religion from one day to the next, she wrote later that for years...

CB's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

FD belonged to the British nobility (with a Scottish father and English mother), but her mother's conversion to Roman Catholicism (as well as other family circumstances) made her experience different from most members of her...

Though KOB's surname was an ancient name of a royal house in Ireland, she was born into an often-forgotten segment of nineteenth-century society: the Irish Catholic middle class. She calls her Irishness my accidental...

Two of the older children willingly followed their mother into the Roman Catholic Church. Florence and her twin went through the terrors of a first confession, but as she later put it, [h]uman nature does...

Brought up a Catholic, KOB lost her faith while still at school; however, even without intellectual belief, she retained a strong emotional attachment to the religion of her forebears. Lorna Reynolds calls her a...

All that came to her, she believed, came by illumination because of a past birth, and because she pushed [herself] on to a point of spiritual evolution somewhat in advance of the rest of...

She was a Christian believer of sentimental cast, who liked to see spiritual significance in details of her life. Brought up as an Anglican, she learned from a French Catholic servant to cherish and...

Protestant minister John Dunmore Lang's bitter anti-Catholic denunciation of CC's immigration work prompted lively correspondence in the Sydney Morning Herald.

She was an Irish gentlewoman and apparently a Roman Catholic or ex-Catholic, though of heterodox tendencies. She goes into some detail in discussing the doctrines and practices of the Catholic Church, but is highly critical...

COCE was born into the Irish, Roman Catholic, professional or gentry class, with descent from ancient royalty. Her family had great pride of race: when she was barely in her teens, genealogist John O'Hart

Born into the Hungarian nobility, she remained hierarchical in her ways of thinking, though her snobbishness was balanced by some skill with the common touch. Brought up a Roman Catholic, she became a committed...