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Her poem is Miltonic in style, with frequent echoes of Paradise Lost, although written in couplets. Accepting a designation applied to her by ideological enemies, MDF opens by comparing herself to the biblical Deborah...

The second part is devoted to France. MDF laments the ancien regime as she sees it, a collection of evils produced by Catholicism : slavery, despotism, the Bastille, and the Inquisition . She identifies...

She came from an upper-class English family: her great-grandfather was a baronet. She was presumably a Roman Catholic , since she married two Catholic husbands.

TD was an Irishwoman, presumably white, brought up in the Catholic Church . Her parents belonged, says her editor, to the prosperous Waterford merchant class.

At twenty-one, having come of age, Edmée de la Pasture (later EMD ) entered a Catholic convent, the mother house of an enclosed order in Belgium.

EMD grew up in an upper-class family. Her father was descended from French Catholic aristocrats (whose title was not officially recognised in England), and her mother from English squires. She was given a strict Victorian...

SD grew up in a working-class family in Lancashire. Though her father was Catholic as well as half-Irish, she did not consider herself to be Catholic. When she became famous at the age of...

ED possessed an impressive royalist pedigree, Scottish on her father's side, English on her mother's She was born into the nobility, during the final stages of the English Civil War which temporarily deprived this group...

EMD was born into the middle class, and of a mixed marriage, her mother being Protestant and her father a Catholic who had abandoned his faith. With the money brought by her writing, EMD adopted...

CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.

Protestantism was a central part of that family identity which she found oppressive. After her husband died she first took up spiritualism. then converted to Roman Catholicism , and later became a Theosophist.

She converted to Catholicism less than a year after her husband's death, which made her a co-religionist of those she now set out to help. Around 1909, after attending a series of lectures by...

In this historically-based essay CD sets out to deal not with individual women but with the great woman-principle. She begins with the worship of the female principle in ancient Egypt, Greece...

AD grew up in Northern Ireland but has been living in England since 1976, driven away, she said, by levels of violence that caused me to be afraid. Her family heritage is Catholic ...

In a move that reflected her turn to Catholicism , MAD published a devotional volume, Sanctuary, dedicated to MaryThe Mother of Jesus and featuring a preface by Charles Galton , a Jesuit priest.