Building a Library of Nineteenth-Century Religious Fiction, I: Works Currently in Print

Imagine a young specialist in nineteenth-century fiction as she stands in front of her partly-empty bookshelves, considering her next purchases.  She has all the usual suspects--Eliot, the Bronte sisters, Hardy, Gaskell, Dickens, Collins, Thackeray, etc.  But she wants to branch out to lesser-known works.  Should she go for the Gothic? Condition of England fiction? Early detective novels? Dystopias and utopias?

Well, as this imaginary specialist is currently appearing on my blog, you know what she's going to do: she's going to invest in nineteenth-century religious fiction.

This post and the ones following it are aimed at those who believe they should know more about religious fiction, but who don't necessarily want to spend the entirety of their lives researching it. 

The list excludes unedited POD reprints (a number of which are printed straight from GoogleBooks, complete with all the flaws).  It also excludes abridged/rewritten modern versions. 

Post #1 is, I fear, the shortest. 

• Grace Aguilar, Selected Writings, ed. Michael Galchinsky (Broadview, 2003).  One of nineteenth-century Britain's most famous Jews, and its most famous Jewish novelist until Israel Zangwill.  Includes her controversial tract The Perez Family, short fiction, and excerpts from her nonfiction prose.  Useful Aguilar links include Michael Dugdale's site and Galchinsky's entry at the Jewish Women's Archive.
• Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, ed. James Cochrane (Penguin, 1966).  Famous attack (published posthumously) on evangelicalism also takes on Anglo-Catholics, Roman Catholics, and various other Christian denominations and groupings.  See David Clifford's biographical sketch at the Victorian Web.
• Benjamin Disraeli, Lothair (Nonsuch, 2007).  Protestant? Catholic? Young Lothair must decide.  Meanwhile, he fights for Garibaldi.  Along with George Eliot's Romola, one of the British novels inspired by the Risorgimento.  Garibaldi and the Risorgimento provides useful context. 
• Maria Edgeworth, Harrington, ed. Susan Manly (Broadview, 2004).   Edgeworth's anti-anti-Semitic novel, written after the American Jewish educator Rachel Mordecai Lazarus complained about  The Absentee.  For Edgeworth, see Manly's entry at the Chawton House Library; for Lazarus, see Emily Bingham's entry at the Jewish Women's Archive. 
• Amy Levy, Reuben Sachs, ed. Susan David Bernstein (Broadview, 2006). Extremely controversial novel--then and now--that satirizes both the late-Victorian Jewish middle class and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda.  See Linda Hunt Beckman's biographical sketch at the Jewish Women's Archive.   
• George MacDonald, Lilith (Eerdmans, 1981).  Late-Victorian Christian fantasy.  The Golden Key is devoted to MacDonald's work. 
• Hannah More, Coelebs in Search of a Wife, ed. Patricia Demers (Broadview, 2007).  Enormously-popular nineteenth-century novel, in which the title character hunts all over England for the perfect, virtuous bride.  For background on More, see the Victorian Web.