This Week's Acquisitions
- "Mary Monica," Cottage Conversations (H. C. McGrath, n.d.). US reprint of an 1850 four-volume series of tracts in dialogue form, devoted to various aspects of Catholic life. (eBay)
- Agnes M. Stewart, Grace O'Halloran; Or, Ireland and Its Peasantry: A Tale of Today (P.J. Kenedy, n.d.). US reprint of Stewart's Catholic novel about the persecutions faced by mid-Victorian Irish tenants. This volume includes several shorter tales. (eBay)
- "Nathan Meritor" [Matthias Levy], The Hasty Marriage: A Sketch of Modern Jewish Life (British Library, n.d.). Reprint of Levy's 1857 novel about the dangers of interfaith marriage. (Amazon)
- Leon Bloy, Disagreeable Tales, trans. Erik Butler (Wakefield, 2015). Reprint of Bloy's short story collection in the conte cruel tradition. (Amazon)
- Graeme Macrae Burnet, His Bloody Project: Documents Relating to the Case of Roderick Macrae (Contraband, 2015). Historical novel set in the 1860s Highlands, in which we explore why the title character murdered three people. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Turner, The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School (Yale, 2016). New history of the English public school from the beginnings to the present. (Amazon)
- Shirley Mullen, Organized Freethought: The Religion of Unbelief in Victorian England (Garland, 1987). Examines an emergent "religion of atheism" in mid-Victorian radical thought. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Serenhedd James, George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-Century England (Oxford, 2016). Study of the thought and work of a prominent Victorian Catholic priest. (Amazon)
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, All Things Made New: The Reformation and Its Legacy (Oxford, 2016). The aftermath of the Reformation, including the Counter-Reformation and more contemporary responses. (Amazon)