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...

It was after his divorce, in 1930, that EW converted to Catholicism . He was received into the Church on 29 September that year.

In Devon she developed the religious tolerance that distinguishes her writing and helped her to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Christian literary communities. Here she came into contact with provincial English Protestantism, which...

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...

Born into the rising and prosperous English trading class, with strong gentry connections, SH was baptised into the Church ofEngland . Possibly out of loyalty to her dead father, who worked for the royal family...

Brought up a Catholic , CAD early became an agnostic. She has said that she retain[s] some of the motifs of all that and none of the feelings; faith, guilt, whatever. I do envy people...

In 1926 GG converted to Roman Catholicism at the insistence of his fiancée, Vivien Dayrell-Browning . His baptism was a banal affair at a dark cathedral in Nottingham, full of inferior statues. He...

Although brought up as a Protestant and confirmed while at school as an Anglican , IM later considered herself nothing more specific than a Christian fellow-traveller. At more than one stage of her life...

Born into the English lower middle class, Carol-Ann spent her early childhood in London, where her immediate family shared a gloomy, unwelcoming house owned by her grandparents in Forest Hill, living as [t]wo families...

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

AC was a devout Christian believer. One group of her editors think she was possibly Roman Catholic , certainly anti-Calvinist; another group thinks she was Calvinist in sympathy.

ES was received into the Roman Catholic Church at Farm Street Church in Mayfair.

In 1929 UT began to question the Catholic Church's position on sexual inversion. She felt disillusioned by the Church authorities: I begin to doubt whether authority has any place where the invert may lay...

She was born into the Anglo-Irish or Ascendancy upper class, a Church of Ireland member with close blood ties to the dispossessed, Catholic , Irish nobility. Her family closely reflected the political and religious conflicts...

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.