Roman Catholic Church

Thomas Burnet of Kemnay wrote the first of his surviving letters to CT ; he was at this date thinking of her as a potential wife, and was concerned to convert her from Roman Catholicism .

Mirrlees was a Roman Catholic convert of some years' standing at the time of her closest contact with Eliot. John Hayward was a talented, acerbic, clubbable scholar crippled by muscular dystrophy.

The leaders she met included John Keble , John Henry Newman , and Henry Wilberforce ; she also met Charlotte Yonge .

MDF celebrates the Association in a poem addressing it. Her book's full title is Unrighteous Abuse Detected and Chastised; or, A Vindication of Innocence and Integrity, Being an Answer to a Virulent Poem, Intituled, The...

Once EH converted to Catholicism , its influence began to pervade her writing.

Tyrwhit's prayers bring together, in cheerful ecumenicity, the Bible, the old Roman Catholic tradition of books of hours, and newer Lutheran and humanist influence, grafting new thinking onto an age-old tradition of piety...

The book was selling at a reduced price by June 1735. Johnson treated his source author, Father Lobo , a sixteenth-century Portuguese missionary, with astonishing freedom, openly signalling his disapproval of the Roman Catholic

AM 's associations with Aubrey de Vere , Patmore , and Meredith were mutually beneficial. She shared with these poet-mentors the passion and facility for metrical and verbal analysis. Her approach to poetry and...

JOH converted to Roman Catholicism around this time. The thought she had been giving to religious life manifests itself repeatedly in her work, and influenced her views on literature. In an interview with William Archer

Charlotte Brontë 's publisher, Smith, Elder and Co. , rejected HM 's pro-Catholic novel entitled Oliver Weld, which Charlotte had persuaded her friend to write because of her admiration for Deerbrook.

The protagonist of the novel, which is set primarily in the 1860s, is Robert de Hausée Orange, an idealistic orphan whose various adventures lead him through from Normandy in France to England, English politics, and...

The heroine's friend, foil, and rival in love, Reine Chrétien is an unusual character in Victorian fiction insofar as she is self-sufficient yet passionate, French, of peasant stock and an actively working woman, but also...

In 1935 JOH merited a chapter in Isabel Constance Clarke 's Six Portraits, a collection of essays on major women writers. Clarke argued that she was the pioneer of the Catholic novelist, and...

The same kind of negative contemporary response to GD 's Catholic agenda greeted The Red House by the River.

The book aroused the antagonism of Catholic reviewers, not because of its author's gender (which remained cloaked behind her pseudonym) but because of its attitudes. Editing her memoirs, her second husband gave five or six...