English Catholic Heroines

In this book a group of distinguished authors with varying interests champion the achievements of twenty-three seminal figures in the history of the English Church, from the seventh century to the present day, who through their Catholic witness have made a contribution to the spiritual, intellectual, ethical and physical welfare of the nation which can be fairly described as "heroic". Includes chapters on: St. Hilda and St. Etheldreda, Julian of Norwich, St. Margaret Clitherow, M.  Elizabeth Hayes, and Elinor Brent-Dyer.