The Little Professor

This (Last Month's) Belated Acquisitions

(In Canada yesterday to see Sweeney Todd at the Shaw Festival, so no time to type.)

  • William Ingraham Kip, Recantation: Or the Confessions of a Convert to Romanism: A Tale of Domestic and Religious Life in Italy (Stanford and Swords, 1846).  Young woman travels to Italy, is seduced into converting to Catholicism, has regrets.  An Episcopalian novel.  (eBay)
  • W. Boyd Carpenter, Narcissus: A Tale of Early Christian Times (SPCK, n.d.).  Historical novel set in second century Rome about the fates of various converts to Christianity.  A bit about Carpenter at the Westminster Abbey site. (eBay)
  • Catherine Sinclair, Torchester Abbey; Or, Cross-Purposes. A Tale (Simpkin, Marshall, n.d.).  Anti-Catholic novel set during the Crimean War; also published simply as Cross-Purposes.  For a brief overview of Sinclair's career, see the National Library of Scotland.  (eBay)
  • Agnes M. Stewart, Disappointed Ambition; Or, Married and Single (P. J. Kenedy, 1896).  US reprint of a much earlier Catholic novel about a disastrous marriage between a Catholic and a Dissenter.  (eBay)
  • Mary Bramston, Everingham Girls (SPCK, n.d.).  The experiences of various girls in a small English town, ranging from marriage to professional nursing training.  (eBay)
  • F. E. Reade, How Sandy Learned the Creed (SPCK, n.d.).  A Scottish orphan learns about faith in the Church of England while having various adventures.  (eBay)
  • Georgiana Fullerton, Seven Stories (Burns and Oates, n.d.).  Collection of Catholic novellas and short stories, mostly historical (e.g., Great Fire of London).  (eBay)
  • James Adderley, Stephen Remarx/Hall Caine, The Christian (Garland, 1975).  Two-in-one reprints from the "Victorian Novels of Faith and Doubt" series.  The first is an Anglo-Catholic novel about Christianity and calls for social reform, originally published in 1893; the second is Caine's best-known novel, about the relationship between a crusading clergyman and an actress.  (eBay)
  • Patrick Augustine Sheehan, The Triumph of Failure/Henry E. Dennehy, A Flower of Asia (Garland, 1976).  Same series as above.  A Catholic novel by an Irish clergyman, first published in 1899, about a young man's journey towards a religious vocation, and a novel about conversion in India, first published in 1901.  (eBay)
  • William Edward Heygate, William Blake; Or, the English Farmer (Garland, 1975).  Still more from the series.  Novel about the role of religion in farming communities, first published in 1848.  (eBay)
  • Charles B. Tayler, Mark Wilton/Frederick W. Farrar, Eric; Or, Little by Little (Garland, 1976).  One more volume.  The first novel, originally published in 1848, is about a young clerk who finds himself enmeshed with forgers and murderers; the second is Farrar's famous "school story" about a young boy corrupted by his peers at a boarding school.  (eBay)
  • Rebecca Mascull, Song of the Sea Maid (Hodder and Stoughton, 2015).  Historical novel set in the eighteenth century about an orphan who becomes interested in the sciences.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Susan Manning, Fragments of Union: Making Connections in Scottish and American Writing (Palgrave, 2002).  Analyzes how Scottish narratives pre- and post- Act of Union anticipate similar works in the nascent United States.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Matthew Campbell, Irish Poetry under the Union, 1801-1924 (Cambridge, 2013).  Relations between Irish poetics and nationalist politics.  (Amazon)
  • Martin J. Wiener, An Empire on Trial: Race, Murder, and Justice under British Rule, 1870-1935 (Cambridge, 2009).  Examines what interracial murder prosecutions tell us about the colonial juridical system in a number of different countries.  (Amazon)
  • Christopher Harding, Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial Punjab (Oxford, 2008).  Study of how missionary efforts from multiple countries and Christian denominations were received in the Punjab, and how they were influenced in turn.  (Amazon)
  • Ulrich Lehner, The Catholic Enlightenment: The Forgotten History of a Global Movement (Oxford, 2016). Survey of eighteenth-century reform movements within Catholicism.  (Amazon)
  • Roger D. Sell and Anthony W. Johnson, Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 (Ashgate, 2009).  Collection featuring essays on such topics as anti-Catholicism, Spenser, worship, music, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Mary Riso, The Narrative of the Good Death: The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England (Ashgate, 2015).  A study of the all-important genre of the deathbed narrative in Dissenting communities.  (Amazon)
  • Andrew J. May, Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (Manchester, 2012).  History of Welsh missionary work in India from 1845 onward.  (Amazon)
  • Donald Harman Akenson, Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell (McGill-Queen's, 2016).  The explosion of interest in apocalyptic millennialism in early Victorian Ireland, with special attention to John Nelson Darby.  (Amazon)
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