Roman Catholic Church

JS portrays Portugal too as an unhappy land, full of oppressive regulations and of officers exacting fines and fees from travellers. Upper-class women are virtual prisoners in their homes; marriage without consent is savagely punished...

She expresses here an interest in comparative religion which may distantly herald her eventual conversion. She refers to the battering-ram qualities of Protestantism and the charmed and glorified, the rich and magical atmosphere of Catholic

A long novel with a complex plot, Grantley Manor concerns the trials of both Anglican and Catholic heroines, and the human cost of religious prejudice. It opens on the motherless Margaret Leslie growing up an...

She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries Mans Scholastick Learning, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she...

AS begins with the feelings that assailed her when she first stood on a summit and contemplated the prospect of transcendent magnificence, the peaks and glaciers of the Alps. Such, she says, is the prospect...

Nor does the new Catholic middle class escape unscathed, as ML emphasizes the unnecessary squalor of their dwellings. One house that Hogan visits seems on first glance full of plenty and sophistication, but daylight reveals...

PW 's preface notes that adult travel books run to passages of an immoral tendency. Her Seymour family explore Europe: they see a mountain storm in Switzerland and an earthquake in Sicily. The...

The clash between Nonconformist and Roman Catholic faith dominates this book. While Hobbes was said to be privately hostile to the protestantism in which she was raised, the novel is relatively balanced in its exploration...

JP paints the young Joan of Arc as deeply spiritual and already aspiring to sainthood: Jeannette knew that many girls and boys were interested in each other . . . . She wanted none of...

COCE opens by making two points which might seem at variance with each other: the fascination which the past holds for later generations, and their ignorance of its discomforts and inconvenience. In a note she...

It was daring for a woman to claim the public role of adviser to a military man, even when he was a son newly entered on the great stage of life. She begins with...

JK 's style is plain, vigorous, and effective. She is consistently attentive to the details of women's lives and to the effects of history, politics, race, and religion in the various cultures she visits. Though...

The Science of Life uses as its examples St Ignatius , John Wesley , and Tolstoy . In Dante and Botticelli she argues from her two Italian examples that the best possible training for...

ML repeats here the cautious approbation of religiously mixed marriage that she voiced in Hogan, M.P. Such marriages, she suggests, can bring disparate cultures together, but only if they are contracted with respect and love...

Here MR recounts her experiences as a budding writer and a member of the women's movement in London. She writes of her Catholic upbringing, of living in communes and building and surviving relationships. Her...