Roman Catholic Church

She was born of a well-connected gentry or professional family on her father's side, of Welsh extraction (presumably white). She became déclassée through her career as a prostitute. It is not clear where her Roman Catholic

She was born into the English gentry and at a time of religious turmoil and change she probably held to the old religion of Catholicism , not openly but at least in sympathy, in view...

John Hoey was a devout Roman Catholic, and on her marriage FSH converted to Catholicism . Catholicism is not usually an issue in her fiction (with the exception of the anti-divorce novel Out of Court...

As well as German nationality, MC claimed a background that was Roman Catholic and upper-class, indeed noble. When in print she implicitly admitted that her claims to nobility were false, she fell back on saying...

Returned to ordinary life, GD remained a practising, even a fervent Catholic .

She remembered her English grandmother as unequivocally working-class (though the class position of her French grandparents was perhaps higher). In 1989 MR implicitly admitted to being middle-class now. Daughter of a French, Roman Catholic

MG 's enthusiasms led her in several successive directions in religion. In November 1891 she became a member of the Rosicrucian Order of the Golden Dawn . On 17 February 1903, immediately before marrying John MacBride

After converting to Roman Catholicism the previous year, MH was confirmed in that faith by the Prince-Bishop of Brixen (now Bressanone, a town in the Italian Tyrol).

BB was born into the English lower middle class. She says her family had been quite well off until the slump of 1929, but then they had lost everything. She converted to Catholicism during her...

MBL was born into the Roman CatholicChurch (to which her mother had converted and of which her brother later became a champion), and she remained a devout Catholic until her death, to the bafflement of...

KC had a cultural heritage which was both French Creole (her mother's family had come to Louisiana centuries earlier from northern France) and Irish. She was a presumably white American, of a well-to-do...

MAS was an earnest religious seeker. Brought up in the Society of Friends, she had years of doubt, of misery, of darkness, and became successively a Quaker , a Methodist , and finally a Moravian

Her later years are to be seen in terms of her inner spiritual life as well as her public religious-political activities. Though her relations with the Jesuits and with the Papal Curia were often difficult...

FTJ was brought up as a Catholic . Her paternal ancestors were writers, poets, theologians, and historians, while her maternal ancestors were colliery owners. By the time of her birth, her family had lost its...

Her family were professional people of Irish extraction.