Roman Catholic Church

In a subplot Adeline de Castella breaks with her beloved Frederick St John when her Catholic father forbids her to marry him. The emotion of their parting causes her to break a blood vessel, after...

TM handles her narrative with her usual skill, informing her scenes and her people with life through telling detail. The story opens in the voice of Florens, who can remember being with her mother as...

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...

Early in the story two young men, Dirk and Thierry, decide to study the dark arts. After they put a curse on a fellow-student they are accused of witchcraft and their apparatus discovered, but they...

The protagonist of these books, Guy Crouchback, is a middle-aged Roman Catholic, divorced from his wife, Virginia (though not in the eyes of the Church , which therefore does not regard a sexual fling with...

Heaney, as a Catholic , came under political pressure to denounce British rule in Northern Ireland and to celebrate the IRA . But he continued to see two sides to the question, to admire certain...

Charlotte Elizabeth (later Tonna) published her first proselytizing religious pamphlet, A Friendly Address to Converts from the Roman Catholic Church.

After years of theological study had brought her back from the Roman Catholic to the Anglican church , SH addressed a detailed account of her shift in thinking to her former, Catholic mentor, Henry Turberville .

While in her works for young people CS gained a reputation for keeping a bright tone even in moralising, her writing for adults centres on heavily didactic texts in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church

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...

GBS published a somewhat different kind of memoir in All in Good Time, which describes the train of thinking that brought her from the non-practising Judaism of her childhood into the Roman Catholic Church .

The sequel follows Robert's idealised, but doomed, relationship with Bridget, the heroine of the previous novel. After trials that culminate in Bridget's learning that her first husband is still alive, the couple split, and Robert...

In an essay signed A Rustic Rambler, ATG compared the forms of Roman Catholicism practised in England and in Continental Europe.

SH 's revised or reformed version of John Austin 's popular Roman CatholicDevotions in the Ancient Way of Offices, 1668, was published through George Hickes . Austin concealed himself under the name of William Birchley.

The fact that this was the last book HM published is attributed by Tillotson to the difficulties of her divided life . . . . The very success of her books disturbed her, as a...