 Ruskin especially singled out the sonnet "Renouncement" for its beauty and delicacy.After Alice converted whilst recuperating from one of her frequent illnesses, and she had written love poetry like "'After a parting"" and "'Renouncement'" for the young Jesuit priest who guided her to faith, Father Augustus Dignam, the entire Thompson family converted to the Catholic Church (1868 to 1880), and her writings migrated to subjects of religious matters.This eventually led her to the Catholic newspaper publisher and editor Wilfrid Meynell (1852–1948) in 1876, whom she married the next year (1877) and they settled in Kensington.