Roman Catholic Church

GMH had found the liberal and progressive ethos of Balliol a strain, and set himself against it. His Anglican practices became more and more high, to the extent of making confession and kissing the...

HM quietly converted to Roman Catholicism .

When UT travelled to Florence to visit cousins in 1907, she found herself attracted to the Catholic faith; she later converted to Roman Catholicism . She had previously studied various Eastern religions, including Buddhism, Bushido...

Her father was Scottish in origin and had changed his name to Mallet from Malloch (a fact that was held against him by politically-motivated satirists). Dorothea grew up English and became Genoese by marriage. She...

Dryden parallelled his former switch in political allegiance in probably 1685, with a switch of religious allegiance, converting from Anglicanism to Catholicism . He was vulnerable to charges of time-serving since he did this at...

Born into the English professional class, GG became a RomanCatholic because of the woman he married. He always remained a Catholic, but his novels frequently treat the pain of conflicted religious belief, and late in...

JJ 's three central characters here include two brothers who belong to the Catholic minority and a schoolteacher. Brendan Logan has a troubled relationship with his mother, has been in England, and now seeks glory...

The wedding in the novel is to unite British royalty (in the person of Princess Amy) to a Roman Catholic spouse (in the person of Prince Ferdinand), for the first time since the Stuarts. Jemima...

Edward II is a generically complex work: a history composed largely of dramatic speeches, in prose which verges on blank verse. This monarch was famous or infamous for entertaining favourites (particularly Piers Gaveston ) with...

Time passes, and Sophy is happily married and then widowed, while Jim becomes a Nonconformist minister. The Firmalden siblings become intimate with an aristocratic Roman Catholic couple, Lord Basil and Lady Tessa Marlesford. Struggle over...

The book features as its heroine Aimée Furniss, a recent graduate from Newnham College who has just taken up her first position teaching at a girls' school. Though she finds teaching rewarding, her experiences with...

A Roman Catholic widow feels after the death of her weak-natured husband that she has been unfaithful to him in her soul. She therefore declines the hand of a deserving man who has long loved...

Laurentia is another of Fullerton's historical novels, in this case written with the intent of providing a picture of the Church of Japan in the sixteenth century, and to illustrate in the shape of a...

This story is oddly poised between admiration for the free-spirited and bohemian, respect for social convention, sympathy with those who despise social convention, and a strong Christian moral spirituality in which the choice between good...

Her heroine, Myra Driscoll, is a Roman Catholic who sets her religion aside and elopes to marry a Protestant, Oswald Henshawe, bringing down on herself family disapproval and disinheritance. Her brave insistence on marrying for...