This Last Two Weeks' Acquisitions

(Still picking up volumes of the Novels of Faith and Doubt series.)

• Frederick Robinson, Church and Chapel (Garland, 1975).  Reprint of Robinson's 1863 triple-decker about religious, political, and romantic conflicts between the C of E and Dissenters, as embodied in the conflict between two clergymen.  (eBay)
• ---, High Church (Garland, 1975).  A marriage founders after a young woman confesses to her clergyman.  (eBay)
• Frederick R. Smith, The Minder and The Coming of the Preachers (Garland, 1975).  Romantic machinations against the background of attempts to develop a clerical career, and a historical novel about the emergence of Methodism.  (eBay)
• Pat Barker, The Silence of the Girls (Doubleday, 2018).  The Iliad retold primarily from the point of view of the women, especially Briseis and Helen.  (Amazon)
• M. Allen Cunningham, Perpetua's Kin (Atelier26, 2018).  Rewrite of Hamlet taking place in over a century of American history.  (Lift Bridge)
• Jean Amery, Charles Bovary, Country Doctor, trans. Adrian Nathan West (NYRB, 2018).  New translation of Amery's 1978 novel that rehabilitates Flaubert's famous "bungler."  (Amazon)
• The Month, vol. 91 (1898).  A bound volume of the Catholic periodical.  (eBay)
• Michael A. Mullett, Catholics in Britain and Ireland, 1558-1829 (Macmillan, 1998).  What the title says--a social history of Catholicism between the Reformation and Catholic Emancipation.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Helen May, Baljit Kaur, and Larry Prochner, Empire, Education, and Indigenous Childhoods: Nineteenth-Century Missionary Infant Schools in Three British Colonies (Ashgate, 2014).  Comparative study of the religious and political goals of schools for children in India, Canada, and New Zealand.  (Amazon)
• Cassandra L. Yacovazzi, Escaped Nuns: True Womanhood and the Campaign against Convents in Antebellum America (Oxford, 2018).  New study of the anti-convent panic primarily associated with Maria Monk.  (Amazon)