Roman Catholic Church

JB converted to Catholicism (as her poems relate), and to its attendant difficulties and discrimination.

Her father belonged to and participated in the local affairs of the Church of England (into which Jane was baptised), but her mother's family had a tradition of Roman Catholicism , to which as an...

Though all the English at St-Germain were Jacobites this did not mean they were all in agreement. There were deep and sometimes acrimonious divisions among them over tactics, principles, and especially allegiances. JB was a...

It appeared though Curll and Rivington , dedicated to the Countess of Nottingham (an Anglican who was said to be a Catholic sympathiser). Its frontispiece is an engraving of the Crucifixion. It has recently been...

Despite her own past conversion, JB says she has made her French author speak the English of the Church of England, in an unusual attempt to bring Catholic devotional practices to the attention of devout...

MB was a Roman Catholic and a humanist, like the rest of her English, professional-class, and unusually scholarly family.

Despite her personal achievements, Margaret Roper's fame has and to some extent still does rest primarily on her status as the eldest and favourite daughter of Thomas More , Lord Chancellor of England under Henry VIII

Mullinahack is not a country estate but a district of Dublin. Byrne was a wealthy middle-class mercant and a supporter of Catholic emancipation. His bride was, according to the Hibernian Magazine for this month, a...

This family spanned a number of the influences she would later reject: her mother was a fervent Catholic and her father a conservative in politics and in cultural choices, whereas as a young woman she...

Her father was, at least nominally, a Catholic, like innumerable generations before him. Her part-Jewish mother, baptised a Protestant, had to convert before her marriage. In childhood SB acquired briefly an intense Roman Catholic

Her later Roman Catholicism (which some commentators dispute) may have had family roots, for there was some talk of her entering a convent.

AB seems to have converted before the end of her life to Catholicism , which was in tune with her political allegiances. A poem on the execution of Lord Stafford (written soon after this event...

AB was confirmed an Anglican in Paris in the spring of 1862. She was fascinated by Catholicism , but the writing of the Oxford Movement convinced her of the similarity between Anglicanism and Catholicism. After...

Critic Ian Sansom notes the preference this poetry evinces for familiarity and tradition. He singles out for mention the opening poem, Death in Leamington (about the bleakness of a woman's death in lonely, genteel poverty),...

On one hand she lauds American religious feeling, especially as expressed in the New England States, but she calls slave-owning southerners hypocrites, and worries about the effect of Catholicism in the mid-Western states of Illinois...