This Week's Acquisitions
- Dinah Mulock Craik, A Noble Life, ed. Clare Walker Gore (Victorian Secrets, 2016). New edition of Craik's 1866 novel about an aristocrat with severe physical disabilities. (Amazon)
- Elizabeth J. Lysaght, Hetty Martin's Trial; Or, Life's Thorns and Roses (Sunday School Union, n.d.). Experiences of a Welsh farmer's daughter after her father loses his money in a bank crash. (eBay)
- Alison Chapman, Networking the Nation: British & American Women's Poetry and Italy, 1840-1870 (Oxford, 2015). Studies the emergence of a newly-energized women's poetry out of Risorgimento activism; touches on various poetic and spiritualist circles (e.g., Casa Guidi). (Amazon)
- Ciaran O'Neill, Catholics of Consequence: Transnational Education, Social Mobility, and the Irish Catholic Elite 1850-1900 (Oxford, 2014). Studies the effects of schooling abroad, both in England and on the Continent, on the prospects of Irish Catholics. (Amazon)
- John Richard Orens, Stewart Headlam's Radical Anglicanism: The Mass, the Masses, and the Music Hall (Illinois, 2003). Studies the career of late-Victorian socialist clergyman Headlam, especially his interest in popular culture and its practitioners. (Amazon [secondhand])