A Rocking-Horse Catholic

"I was received into the church," states Caryll Houselander at the very beginning of this work "when I was six years old. Strictly speaking, therefore, I am not a 'cradle' Catholic, but a rocking-horse Catholic." This autobiography, first published in 1955, takes the reader from the author's Catholic childhood and school days through a period outside the church while she tried to make her living as an artist, to a return to the church. This return was brought about by her insight, so central to