Roman Catholic Church

This novel is best known for its picture of settler or habitant life in Lower Canada, which FB drew from her own years there. From a tourist point of view Lower Canada is idyllic...

In writing this novel she had to struggle with worsening ill-health, and with her distress and anxiety over her brother John Henry as his pilgrimage of belief took him steadily closer towards joining the Roman Catholic Church

The Far Horizon, which LM published four years after her conversion to Roman Catholicism , was a new departure for her, a religious novel which was perceived as proselytising.

PF 's rate of production had dropped since before the war. Between now and 1960 she published (only) eight books. She wrote this book in the USA, her first novel since her conversion...

CMB 's writing career began soon after she finished her education, with short stories submitted to the penny Catholic periodical The Lamp while she was working as a governess for a family in Leicestershire...

After her conversion to Catholicism on 26 May 1882 (in her eighties) she wrote only for Catholic periodicals and for Good Words. Her final publication for this latter journal appeared in 1887, the year...

In Malta, an island whose Roman Catholicism the Quaker women regarded as idolatrous, they were warned by the British Consul that they ran a risk, if they engaged in missionary activity, of arrest by...

He published several politically-charged works that highlighted his Irish patriotism, particularly his outrage at Ireland's disadvantages under English rule. These titles included satirical poetry (Odes upon Cash, Corn, Catholics, and Other Matters, 1828)...

It seems that her conversion to Catholicism must have involved some change in the political views she had held so long and so passionately, since Garibaldi was in his lifetime an icon of anti-Catholicism, and...

Entertaining Knox was a politically dangerous thing for Locke and her husband to do under Queen Mary . A few years later, when Anne Locke left England, her motives no doubt included a religio-political element—she...

It was LLH who persuaded her sister Winifred to write out the full story of how she engineered her husband's escape from the Tower and who then preserved and apparently circulated the story. She no...

Lady Tyrwhit and her husband continued to prosper through the reign of Queen Mary . Susan M. Felch points out that long before she was a persecutor of Protestants, Mary had participated in the humanist...

With varying degrees of commitment (usually minor), Richardson immersed herself in various philosophical movements of the period. She did much of her reading at the British Museum 's Reading Room, which she revered, but elsewhere...