British Library, Day Twenty-Three

Mostly shorter things, although I also made it through 2/3 of a 500+ page novel (which appears to have been sent back to storage by mistake, grar) and photographed the pages screwed up in GoogleBooks' single-volume edition of Dorsey's Sister of Charity.

• The Irish Girl.  A Religious Tale (George Walker, 1814).  This was quite useful for me, actually, as its approach to religious controversy wouldn't catch on until nearly a decade later--by which time it had been completely forgotten.  Anyway, it's an evangelical tale about how Judith, an Irish Catholic servant, converts to Protestantism by reading the Bible.  Eventually, she's rewarded by marriage to a nice Protestant clergyman, despite the machinations of her evil family.  We're assured that English Catholics are ever so much nicer--practically like Protestants! BODY COUNT: Zero.
• Female Intrepidity; Or, the Dangers of Superstition.  A Tale of Modern Times (Plummer & Lewis, 1820).  Really a Gothic chapbook, but part of its plot involves the dangers of mixed marriage.  In any event, the somewhat confusing events involve being assaulted by one's infant, abduction, attempted infanticide, faked deaths, and sudden deaths for no apparent reason  BODY COUNT: Four.
• Frances Noble, Madeline's Destiny (Art and Book Company, n.d.).  Catholic novel.  Will Madeline become an actress, or a nun? Will she marry the exotic Rupert de Nunez? Answers: "nun" and "no."  Meanwhile, her sister Lottie, who had willingly sacrificed her own love for Rupert, gets him in the end, and everyone lives happily ever after.  BODY COUNT: Zero.
• Errors of the Times.  Downward Paths; Or, an Evening in George Burton's Cottage (RTS, n.d.).  Tract about how people who run after religious fads wind up as (gulp) Romanists.  Lots of injunctions to read one's Bible, among other things.  BODY COUNT: Zero.
• Eliza Cheap, The Sunbeam (L. B. Seeley, 1832).  Evangelical tract.  Children's story about how Lucy, a little girl with an evil heart, comes to see the error of her ways using an allegory of a...well, read the title.  BODY COUNT: Zero.
• Eliza Cheap, Little Mary; Or, God in Every Thing, 3rd ed. (L. B. Seeley, 1833).  Novella-length tract.  Another children's story, this time featuring Mary, who gets a new Bible and is extremely excited about learning a new verse every day.  BODY COUNT: Zero.