Roman Catholic Church

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...

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.

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...

Written specifically for use in Sunday Schools, it relates the sufferings of Protestant Martyrs such as Anne Askew , Katherine Hut , and Elizabeth Thackvel . The sufferings of Anne Askew (here seen as martyr...

JK 's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though...

It is set in the late nineteenth-century on the boundary between Westmorland and Lancashire, an exquisite country whose landscape has a profound effect in the narrative. Alan Helbeck, of an old Catholic family...

EH 's short introductory poem, The Widows Suite, seeking approval from a friend named T. S., exemplifies her somewhat tortured inversions of natural word-order: Moreover I not willing am / that Truth at all...

At Salvador in Brazil she finds an oppressive government reflected in the domestic oppression of wives and daughters. She notes the high numbers of monks and nuns (3,000 in the town), the power of the...

ML repeats here the cautious approbation of religiously mixed marriage that she voiced in Hogan, M.P. Such marriages, she suggests, can bring disparate cultures together, but only if they are contracted with respect and love...

Following chapters Of Hell, and Judgment and Of the Soul, and Temptation, she laments a growth in sectarianism and decline in good works. In Of the Romish Religion, she criticizes Catholic beliefs and...

The title of Not All Saints comes from an Irish proverb which is quoted on the title-page. The novel looks at Catholic girls growing up. The orphaned Netta Heath cheerfully faces the necessity of earning...

This book manages almost as large a cast of characters as The Weaker Vessel—including major figures such as Guy Fawkes , Thomas Winter , and Robert (Robin) Catesby ; rulers such as King James

She often took her Irish heritage and the nationalist cause, as well as nature, motherhood, and her Catholicism , as inspirations for her poetry.The Legend of the Sorrowful Mother, a narrative poem...

With a vulgar father and a mother ignorant of high society, Mary grows up unguided. A coquette and an heiress after her father's death, she secretly cares for the curate John Leigh, but flirts culpably...

The main character, Maja Carmen Carrera, a black Jazz singer, immigrated from Cuba to London when she was five years old. Pregnant and living with her (white) Ghanaian husband (Aaron, a doctor), Maja struggles to...