Roman Catholic Church

HD 's poetry reflects her identity as a white Roman Catholic Englishwoman.

It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.

HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .

She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.

JO , a member of a family whose Established Church forebears had acquired wealth a couple of generations back, was a fervent Catholic apparently from her birth, at a time when to be a Catholic...

BWC 's family was lowland Scottish in origin though now established in England or overseas. They belonged to the gentry or professional class. She was confirmed at about fifteen in the Anglican Church , and...

MW was a pious Catholic as a child: she was said to shun sports and pastimes, preferring to read spiritual books, to perform exercises of penance like wearing a rough, uncomfortable girdle, and to humble...

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...

She came from a family of Catholic farmers, middle-class people who were liked and respected by the local gentry.

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

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

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...

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...