This Last Two Weeks' Acquisitions

  • Barbara Hofland, The Blind Farmer and His Children, 3rd ed. (Harris and Son, 1823).  A tenant farmer with cataracts experiences various hardships brought on by the inexperienced new landowner.  (eBay)
  • ---, Alicia and Her Aunt; Or, Think Before You Speak (Nelson, n.d.).  The effects of bad behavior on one's siblings, among other things.  (eBay)
  • Samantha Harvey, The Western Wind (Grove, 2018).  A priest in 15th-century England tries to solve the problem of a man's mysterious death.  (Amazon)
  • Rowan Strong, Victorian Christianity & Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies, c. 1840-1914 (Oxford, 2017).  Preaching to emigrants, onboard religious practices, religion and various social classes/denominations, etc.  (Amazon)
  • Kathryn Gleadle, The Early Feminists: Radical Unitarians and the Emerence of the Women's Rights Movement, 1831-51 (St. Martin's, 1995).  Suffrage, marriage rights, other aspects of feminist activism.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Helen Boyles, Romanticism and Methodism: The Problem of Religious Enthusiasm (Routledge, 2017).  Analyzes the ongoing anxieties about extreme emotional and spiritual experience in both theology and Romantic poetry.  (Amazon [secondhand])