Roman Catholic Church

Though she attended a Presbyterian school, MS was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested in the scriptures and in Christ as a romantic figure, but subscribed to no religious faith. She says...

The close of MS 's erotic relationship with Howard Sergeant (with whom, however, her friendship continued for a while) coincided with a gradual movement towards Derek Stanford , a fellow-member of postwar London bohemia, who...

The book's title comes from the book of Job (a text on which MS had planned a monograph, and did write a related article). She was to write again, in The Only Problem...

The book does not measure up to the force and clarity of the opening. The suggestively-named Deletia Granville is a mysterious, neglected young girl at the outset, pensive and literary, loving sublime nature and her...

An accusation was brought against JA of being a Popish recusant convict, that is of practising the outlawed Roman Catholic religion. The charge (which was dismissed) probably had something to do with her ongoing court case.

She was born into the English upper middle class and was a devout Roman Catholic , who stuck with her religion even when she was denied civil rights on this account.

At some point after CSJ met her long-time partner Edith Craig , she converted from her family's Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .

Having decided to leave Simon and Schuster , CS submitted this work in manuscript to Angus Cameron of Little Brown , but she may have done this too early, since he replied that it needed...

Stein's partner Alice Toklas converted to Catholicism in 1957, allegedly because she liked the idea of meeting up with Stein in heaven.

At the end of the Second World War, GBS converted to Catholicism from her purely nominal Judaism.

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 .

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 .

Both of GBS 's parents were Jewish: her ancestors, some of them upper-class, hailed from Austria (before that from the present-day Czech Republic) or from Germany; yet her life-writings display a confident and unproblematic sense...

Born into the English professional class, RS related closely to her American forebears. She and her sister were baptised as Catholics but brought up as Quakers .

Elizabeth, while remaining a practising Anglican , became remarkable for her capacity to think herself into the mindset of British Roman Catholics at a time when the generally dominant party in England saw them as...