This (Last Two) Week's Acquisitions

(I was in Boston last weekend, so unable to post the usual list.  Of course, being in Boston, I also had access to some bookstores...)

• William Black, A Daughter of Heth (Lovell, n.d.).  US reprint of Black's novel about a young Catholic woman come to stay with strict Protestants, with unfortunate results.  (eBay)
• Leon Bloy, The Woman Who Was Poor: A Novel, trans. I. J. Collins (St. Augustine's, 2015).  Reprints a 1947 translation of Bloy's 1897 Catholic novel about a woman finding her way to the utmost holiness through crushing poverty.  (Amazon)
• Julian Fellowes, Belgravia (Grand Central, 2016).  Historical novel about Victorian fallout from the Duchess of Richmond's Ball.  (Amazon)
• Felix J. Palma, The Map of Chaos, trans. Nick Caistor (Simon & Schuster, 2016).  Steampunk novel, third in a trilogy, involving death, Lewis Carroll, and wandering literary characters. Among other things.  (Amazon)
• Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice 1780-1832 (Cambridge, 1994).  Examines such topics as children's literature, changing ideas about the relationship between education and the nation, etc. (Commonwealth Books)
• Walter H.Conser, Jr., Church and Confession: Conservative Theologians in Germany, England, and America, 1815-1866 (Mercer, 1984).  Examines the role of "confessionalism" as a critique of liberal theology across a variety of denominations, from Lutherans to Episcopalians.  (Commonwealth Books)
• John Fea, The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society (Oxford, 2016).  History of the ABS from its founding to the present.  (Brattle Books)
• Desmond Bowen, The Protestant Crusade in Ireland 1800-70: A Study of Protestant-Catholic Relations Between the Act of Union and Disestablishment (McGill-Queen's, 1978).  Important study of Protestant attempts to evangelize the Catholic population (especially during the so-called "Second Reformation" movement).  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Dominic Aidan Bellenger, Opening the Scrolls: Essays in Honour of Godfrey Anstruther (Downside Abbey, 1987).  Collection of essays on Catholic priests in the UK from the early modern period to the late nineteenth century.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Carol Mattingly, Secret Habits: Catholic Literacy Education for Women in the Early Nineteenth Century (Southern Illinois, 2016).  How Catholic women learned to read, the role of convents, Protestant anxieties about, etc.  (Amazon)
• Edward Muir, Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997).  Changes in civic, popular, and religious ritual from the fifteenth to the early eighteenth centuries. (Commonwealth Books)
• Alison Bashford and Joyce E. Chaplin, The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population (Princeton, 2016).  Locates Malthus' interest in population in its imperial context. (Brattle Books)