Roman Catholic Church

She converted to Catholicism less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help. Around 1909, after attending a series of lectures by...

CT was a middle-class woman of Scottish parentage, with aristocratic connections and Roman Catholic heritage on her mother's side.

She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic

Presumably white, she was baptised a Catholic and was descended from two ancient Irish families of great consideration. Throughout her life (which she said was too quiet to be of interest to the public) she...

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

Though confirmed into the Church of Ireland (that is, in the Anglican faith) she sometimes thought (for partly political reasons) of converting to Roman Catholicism . She arranged a second, Catholic christening for her sons.

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...

AS has been discussed as a religious writer who, slightly ahead of her time, intuited the need for a feminist revision of patriarchal monotheism. She centred a play on the Roman Catholic Mass, and some...

AG 's parents were Irish Protestant land-owners whose estate, encompassing thousands of acres, was originally acquired in the seventeenth century. Her forebears were a mix of Irish and English, Catholic and Protestant. Her maternal grandmother...