Roman Catholic Church

BRP described herself as having been born in the very bosom of Puritan England, and fed daily upon the strict letter of the Scripture from aged lips which I regarded with profound reverence. Her...

Born to an upper-class, religiously mixed (or divided) couple, CH chose the Catholicism of her gentle mother in preference to the Protestantism of her severe and earnest father before she understood what Catholicism meant.

CGOB converted to Catholicism from the Church of Ireland .

DS grew up in a highly-educated, intellectual, Irish-Catholic family. Both her parents were writers, as was her sister. Her childhood home was a centre of intellectual activity in Dublin, and prominent Irish literary...

The Times obituary of PF describes her as coming from a gifted Jewish family on her father's side, but it was not an observant family. G. B. Stern refers to PF

Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...

MAD converted to Roman Catholicism by the mid-1910s and explored religious issues in some of the writing she published during the period. For example, her devotional book Sanctuary (1916) contains a preface by Charles Galton

At some time before her death, AH converted to Catholicism (which had been her father's religion).

DA was born into an English middle-class Roman Catholic family to middle-aged parents, and brought up in an affectionate home environment. She and her sisters were encouraged to read and write from an early age...

She was born into a supportive, professional English family. Travel in France and exposure to the Oxford Movement made EC consider converting to the Roman Catholic Church later in life. However, she remained...

Brought up and educated as a RomanCatholic , SACD lost hisfaith before he left school. He later adopted a fairly eclectic form of spiritualism.

MP was born into an upper-middle class family. His father, Adrian , was a Catholic doctor and his mother, born Jeanne Weils , was a wealthy Jewish heiress. When she died, Marcel inherited aproximately 1,350,000...

Dora Amy Elles (later PW ) was a daughter of the Raj, an Englishwoman born into imperial military life in India while her father was serving in the British army there. She returned to England...

Pearl Craigie (JOH ) entered the Roman Catholic Church at a ceremony at St James's Church, Spanish Place, 22 George Street, London. She now assumed the name Pearl Mary-Teresa Richards Craigie.

AK was baptised into the Roman Catholic Church three years after her marriage, at least in part to avoid the duties of a vicar's wife.