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VB named her daughter after Charlotte Brontë 's character. The child Shirley Catlin was already a Roman Catholic , a role she later combined with that of social democrat. She came second to Elizabeth Taylor

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...

On the publication of her first book, the Critical Review implied that some of her opinions sounded like those of a Catholic . Defending herself, MB claimed to be irreproachably orthodox, that is Anglican ...

This markedly anti-Catholic story (which goes out of its way to criticise the Jesuits ) begins in the twelfth century, when the abbey was founded. The narrator describes how a mother who had...

During her first marriage and her theological debates with her mother-in-law , EB wrote a dialogue between a Protestant and a Catholic about their respective faiths.

EB was born into an English gentry family. John Fell , Bishop of Oxford (remembered as a scholar and an energetic reformer and upholder of standards at Oxford University and the University Press ), was...

FB was serious about her Anglican faith, but much more sympathetic towards Roman Catholicism , which was practised by her maternal grandmother, than most Anglicans of her day, even before she married a Catholic.

Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics . This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights...

Since the earlier novel, Self-Indulgence, had been allegedly forgotten twenty years before, LCB said she had rewritten it with all names and some background events changed. Donneraile is now Lord Fitzharris, and his...

LEB came from the Anglo-Irish nobility. This class, however, was at this time under a cloud. Her parents were Roman Catholic s, and her father's title had been attainted. In 1764 her brother renounced his...

The petitions mention the death of her husband, Captain James Butler , at the battle of Aughrim (a Williamite victory over Jacobite or Catholic forces), the deaths of her children, the loss of her house...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

When Pope Paul VI issued his encyclical Humanae Vitae (On the Regulation of Birth), a prohibition on all forms of birth control, CB and her husband (and her mother ) left the Catholic Church

CB 's mother practised strict Catholic ism while her father, who came from a fundamentalist dissenting home, professed agnostic beliefs. Raised and educated in the Catholic faith, CB married an English Roman Catholic. In regard...

In Holland she reports in detail on horses and carriages, agriculture, the styles of dress and houses, customs like those for Sundays (solemn church attendance, followed by feasting, drinking and dancing). The bitterness...