Roman Catholic Church

Her father 's family was Anglo-Irish, and though he liked sometimes to say he was Irish, the family were in every real sense English. They were highly educated professionals of the upper class (on the...

During this period KM converted officially to Roman Catholicism . In 1895 she founded the St Francis Leper Guild (which is still active today as the St Francis Leprosy Guild ).

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

EC 's parents must have been gentry, for they had a family motto: I never change. Brought up a Protestant, she was shaken by the anti-monarchists' actions and found, she stresses, My Innate Loyalty...

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...

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she...

AC was a devout Christian believer. One group of her editors think she was possibly Roman Catholic , certainly anti-Calvinist; another group thinks she was Calvinist in sympathy.

She is an English feminist who has allowed little information about her family origins to be known. In a lecture given in Spain she said she came from a middle-class background, and in a lecture...

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

It seems her family was tolerant in religious matters. They were Anglicans , but when one of the brothers became both a Roman Catholic and a Jesuit priest, his conversion does not seem to have...

SH had married as a RomanCatholic , but her new husband devoted himself with indefatigable Pains to bringing her back to the Church ofEngland . He recognized that he could hope to do this...

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

CG remained a member of the Church of England (with Low Church or Evangelical sympathies) although her first husband was a Dissenter and she often felt in Wales that the Dissenters were doing a better...

When she was thirteen or fourteen EJ first began to question the Roman Catholic faith in which she was being brought up. But she remained a faithful (though troubled) Catholic, always closely concerned with religion...