Roman Catholic Church

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 .

Her notoriety (following the war and from her later work) placed FN in the society of many important contemporaries, including every Prime Minister of her time. She maintained a correspondence with Cardinal Manning ...

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...

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 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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The book had the honour of being reviewed for the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan . Morgan, anonymous like all Athenæum reviewers, seems at first to be distancing herself from the author in terms of gender...

Negative reviews seemed to repeat Macmillan 's original worry that the collection was half-cooked. Aunt Topaz was characterized by the Canadian Forum as a terrible bore, whom the reviewer found almost as tiresome to...

Blackwood's Magazine introduced the serialization of this book with a half-promise of its being a clef: It is, we believe, the faithful narrative of an actual experience, the work of a powerful writer whose identity...