Options were limited for seventeenth-century British women. But Helena Wintour found a way to become an accomplished artist via her unwavering belief in the Catholic Church.
28 July 2022, The Tablet
The fabric of Catholic history as woven by the recusants known as “Hot Holy Ladies”
“Hot Holy Ladies”, the Stonyhurst exhibition title, references a phrase initially used as an insult for impressive recusant women.
A detail from Helena Wintour’s Red Pentecost Chasuble, c.1650.
By permission of the British Jesuit Province
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