Roman Catholic Church

AF turned her attention to another act of parliament which transformed the socio-political scene in Britain, in The King and the Catholics . The Fight for Rights 1829.

In the first edition EG 's own prefatory epistle introduces fourteen chapters or sections. The book was clearly popular, since further editions followed in probably 1606, probably 1608 (with the altered title Miscellanea. Prayers. Meditations...

Taylor worked as a nurse alongside Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War before converting to Catholicism and establishing her Congregation . She published a novel about historical persecution of English Catholics as well as an...

Tales from the Diary of a Sister of Mercy was put out by the Catholic publishing firm of Burns and Oates : the Sisters of Mercy belonged to an Irish nursing Order. The book seems...

After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...

GBS published a somewhat different kind of memoir in All in Good Time, which describes the train of thinking that brought her from the non-practising Judaism of her childhood into the Roman Catholic Church .

Having published a religio-political pamphlet about the Indian Mutiny in 1857, CM again became involved politically when the House of Commons was debating the question of Home Rule for Ireland in 1886. When on 8...

Anti-Catholic sentiments are related through the vehicle of a romance in which a young Italian-French heroine is persuaded by a suitor to give up her loyalty to a useless priest.

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.

An occasional conformity bill was currently being debated, though it was not until 1711 that the practice of occasional conformity (whereby known Dissenters or Roman Catholics circumvent the ban on anyone except Anglicans holding public...

GBS published The Way It Worked Out, a sequel to All in Good Time, which presents her continuing cogitations, as a Catholic, on Judaism and Roman Catholicism .

While in her works for young people CS gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church

The fact that this was the last book HM published is attributed by Tillotson to the difficulties of her divided life . . . . The very success of her books disturbed her, as a...

Fisher had been Bishop of Rochester when he incurred Henry's wrath for opposing his first divorce, and was executed on 22 June 1535. He was regarded by the Catholic Church as a saint and martyr...

After EW 's book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti , which was connected with his early ambition to be an artist, came a number of biographically-oriented works which sprang from his Catholic faith. His lives of...