This Week's Acquisitions
- Hesba Stretton, Jessica's First Prayer/Little Meg's Children/Alone in London/Pilgrim Street (Garland, 1976). Omnibus volume containing four of Stretton's bestselling RTS novels about impoverished "waifs" in the metropolis. Part of the "Novels of Faith and Doubt" series. (eBay)
- Francis E. Paget, St. Antholin's/Milford Malvoisin (Garland, 1975). Two novels about church architecture controversies (yes, you read that correctly), one about restoration and the other about pews. Also in the "Novels of Faith and Doubt" series. (eBay)
- Mary Doria Russell, Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral (HarperCollins, 2015). Sequel to her novel about Doc Holliday. (Amazon)
- Diana Souhami, Gwendolen (Holt, 2015). It's Daniel Deronda, only without the Daniel Deronda plot. (Amazon)
- Roger McDonald, The Ballad of Desmond Kale (Vintage, 2005). At the beginning of the nineteenth century, an Irish prisoner in Australia escapes his captors and takes on larger-than-life status. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Beth Palmer and Adelene Buckland, eds., A Return to the Common Reader: Print Culture and the Novel, 1850-1900 (Ashgate, 2011). Collection of essays revisiting R. D. Altick's classic The English Common Reader, with discussions of such topics as pop fiction, literary criticism, reading in prison, and so on. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Patricia Thomas Srebernik, Alexander Strahan, Victorian Publisher (Michigan, 1986). Biographical and business study of Strahan's career as a major publisher of Victorian periodicals, including the Contemporary Review. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Herbert Schlossberg, The Silent Revolution and the Making of Victorian England (Ohio, 2000). Analyzes how various religious movements shaped Victorian manners and mores. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Andrew Porter, ed., The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914 (Eerdmans, 2003). The role of missionaries in India, China, and Africa; discusses such topics as gender, scientific exploration, theories of race, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- R. W. Ambler, Ranters, Revivalists & Reformers: Primitive Methodism and Rural Society, South Lincolnshire 1817-1895 (Hull, 1989). Local history of the development and influence of one ardently evangelical Methodist sect. (Amazon [secondhand])