This (Last Two) Week's Acquisitions
- George Moore, Evelyn Innes, 2 vols. (Tauchnitz,[1898]). A young singer finds herself torn between the attentions of two men, before finally taking refuge in her Catholicism.
- ---, Sister Teresa (Lippincott, 1901). Sequel to Evelyn Innes. Evelyn enters a convent, but soon finds herself struggling with her vocation and with her belief in the Real Presence.
- Ernest Dowson, The Stories of Ernest Dowson, ed. Mark Longaker (A. B. Barnes, 1960). Reprint of Longaker's 1947 edition of Dowson's short fiction and vignettes.
- "Rita" [Eliza Humphreys], Faustine (Lippincott, 1883). A sensational novel set in France, involving an actress, star-crossed lovers, and an intriguing priest.
- Dinah Mulock, The Woman's Kingdom. A Love Story (Harper, 1902). The contrasting fates of twin sisters with very different attitudes to love and marriage. Originally serialized in 1868.
- Thomas Keneally, Napoleon's Last Stand (Atria, 2016). Historical novel about Napoleon's relationship with a young girl, Betsy Balcombe, while imprisoned on St. Helena.
- Gene Kellogg, The Vital Tradition: The Catholic Novel in a Period of Convergence (Loyola University Press, 1970). Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Catholic fiction on the Continent and in the United States.
- William C. Lubenow, 'Only Connect': Learned Societies in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Boydell, 2015). An intellectual history of how various intellectual societies (clubs, professional, amateur, etc.) helped shape the production and dissemination of knowledge.
- Stephanie Barczewski, Country Houses and the British Empire, 1700-1930 (Manchester, 2014). Imperialists purchasing country houses; the furnishing of country houses via the colonies; colonial collectibles; etc.
- Ambrose Macaulay, The Catholic Church and the Campaign for Emancipation in Ireland and England (Four Courts, 2016). A new history of the politics behind Catholic Emancipation.
- Patrick Harries and David Maxwell, eds., The Spiritual in the Secular: Missionaries and Knowledge about Africa (Eerdmans, 2012). Essays on ethnography, medical research, linguistics, early anthropology, etc.
- Dana L. Robert, ed., Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914 (Eerdmans, 2008). Essays on engagements between imperial and indigenous churches, the roles of domestic ideologies, after-effects of mission work, etc.