Roman Catholic Church

Born into the English gentry at a period of harsh persecution, she was a cradle Catholic (and a fervent one) whose ideas for new departures within the Church often led her into conflict with its...

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...

Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits and with the Papal Curia were often difficult...

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...

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

MAW 's father reconverted to Catholicism : a crushing blow to his family.

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

This book is a sympathetic defence of Italy (to which it is dedicated) and the fruits of the Risorgimento against those who seemed to MAWungenerous and unjust towards the struggling Italian State.Mrs Browning

It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. She begins with...

PW 's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Her Seymour family explore Europe: they see a mountain storm in Switzerland and an earthquake in Sicily. The...

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...

The Lost Word draws on but warps the conventions of aestheticism. Catherine Alstone's passion for art is not inflected by practical concerns, but neither is it art for artisticness that I want . ....

This traces mystical beliefs and practice from the Bible, through the early days of Christianity, the medieval Catholic mysticism of England and various European countries, to seventeenth-century Protestant beliefs and practices, and finally to...

EU celebrates the life of this singer, poet, lawyer, and mystic as one marked by extraordinary (Catholic ) spiritual awareness, though his texts have not been officially adopted by the Church: Called, like Dante

Like Mysticism, this book displays great erudition. EU draws on research into eleven (mainly Christian) religious denominations to synthesize the nature, principles, and chief expressions of the human response to and relationship with the...