Roman Catholic Church

Confirmed as a Roman Catholic as a child, GG at fourteen was into fasting and kneeling in prayer in the church for hours on end, in a fervour which she later identified as sexual. Her...

Her parents, members of the English yeoman class (farmers who worked their own small piece of land themselves), were devout Catholics . This meant that they belonged to a minority to whom various civil rights...

She was baptised in the Church of England but by 1912, MAD had converted to Catholicism . Her religious views are reflected in some of her writing.

MF was an Englishwoman with some Irish heritage. From early childhood she felt puzzled about the status of women. She observed a discrepancy between the way she felt (the equal of boys) and the way...

Brought up a Geneva Protestant, he converted at the age of sixteen to Roman Catholicism , turned back to Protestantism in his forties, and eventually evolved his own belief in natural religion.

This turbulent, restless and divided family was also unusual in being of mixed religion. Ann's mother was a Protestant and her father a Catholic . They followed the same system proposed for a mixed marriage...

She says she was indifferent to religion as a child, and was attracted to churches more by atmosphere than by any religious practice.On atmosphere, she leaned to the Catholic Church (she had first...

At seven, [l]ike every other little Catholic body, she was confirmed and made her first Communion. About this time, while endeavouring to achieve holiness, she felt her endeavour undermined or reversed by a startlingly mundane...

She left the Dublin cousin because she hated his Quaker religion. Naturally vivacious, this teenaged widow found her cousin's gloomy sense of sorrow and conviction, and his disapproval of singing and dancing more than...

She was born into the English middle class (although her mother was Scottish, her maternal grandfather and her father served much abroad, and her paternal grandmother was American of German descent). Presumably white, she became...

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...

AOK was an Irishwoman born (on both sides) into the Dublin theatre world, though her father had gentry origins. Her mother was Protestant , and her father Catholic . AOK says that she never experienced...

MW was born an upper-class Englishwoman, a second daughter who was early aware that her mother was disappointed she was not a boy. She later defied convention in several respects—in her second marriage and her...

AT 's family came from the middle classes of Lancashire and Scotland, but lived a rootless, unsettled life as her father pursued his career. Both sides had been Jacobites during the eighteenth century. She...

Although in her student days she practised witchy activities like casting spells, she was, says Marina Warner (the recipient of an unsuccessful spell to cure a painful unrequited love), a quietly practising Catholic most of...