Roman Catholic Church

The early life of Chloe Wofford (later TM ) was shaped by her birth as a working-class African-American at the tail end of segregation. At twelve she became a Roman Catholic . In...

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.

Once established in Ireland, her family became practising members of the Church of Ireland: that is the Anglican Church. AMH encountered many practising Catholic s while living with her maternal step-grandfather , who often entertained...

During her second marriage MB took up with spiritualist practices such as automatic writing. Near the end of her life, she became a convinced Anglo-Catholic . Naomi Royde-Smith (herself a Catholic convert) suggested that Butts...

MD was born into a wealthy bourgeois family descended from Charles Dickens. Her father (who was half-English, half French-German) had to face family disapproval when he chose his bride, not because her father was German...

A Roman Catholic , FM also developed an interest in spiritualism.

KR was brought up in her father's Wesleyan Methodist faith, and also introduced to her maternal family's Presbyterianism by her Scottish relatives. She wrote of being drawn more strongly to the Greek myths in her...

She was born into the Irish, Catholic , farming community.

Born to a mother of Frencharistocratic descent and a Church of England clergyman, GC came from a distinguished upper-classEnglish family with links to the nobility and with ties of friendship to the court. As...

DDM had faith in a kind of spiritual life which included the conviction that there was life after death, but did not subscribe to any formal religion, even though she kept a Catholic missal by...

Charlotte Mew was an Englishwoman who lived all her life in London, mainly in Bloomsbury. She came from a professional, middle-class family whose financial position was always precarious because of her father's carelessness with...

After the death of his first wife , CP converted from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism .

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...

CC fell into severe depression once more. Her serious illness was compounded by pressure from various Catholic acquaintances and her own thoughts, which increasingly turned to death. In this condition she had a spiritual experience...

Her well-to-do father moved from the middle class into the gentry by means of marrying his daughter to a future peer. Brought up a Protestant, she early acquired from her reading a distrust of that...