Roman Catholic Church

Her father, a Protestant, called Catholicism a good religion for a girl. From domestic activities with her Italian mother and maids in what she terms the basement world of female secrets, she learned about...

She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became...

AOK was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant , and her father Catholic . AOK says that she never experienced...

She was an Irishwoman and, it seems, a Roman Catholic , although perhaps resident in England and certainly capable of trenchant criticism of the practices of the Catholic Church of earlier generations.

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

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...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

EC 's parents must have been gentry, for they had a family motto: I never change. Brought up a Protestant, she was shaken by the anti-monarchists' actions and found, she stresses, My Innate Loyalty...

MW was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. She later defied convention in several respects—in her second marriage and her...

JR was at one time attracted to Catholicism , mostly practised by the black people on the island. There was considerable prejudice against Catholicism, and many horror stories about the nuns circulated amongst the...

Brought up as an Anglican in the Church of Ireland , she devoted herself with increasing fervour to her religion. Later she converted and became an extremely devout Catholic .