This Week's Acquisitions
- Patrick Augustine Sheehan, The Short Stories of Canon Sheehan (Burns and Oates, 1911). Collection of five stories by the late-Victorian Irish priest. (eBay)
- Vanessa Tait, The Looking Glass House (Corvus, 2015). Narrates the story of Alice's relationship with Charles Dodgson via the POV of Alice's governess, Mary Prickett. The novelist is a great-granddaughter of the real Alice Liddell. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Lyndsay Faye, The Whole Art of Detection: Lost Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (Mysterious Press, 2017). New collection of fifteen stories (most published before) about, who else, Sherlock Holmes. (Amazon)
- James Diedrick, Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters (Virginia, 2017). Intellectual biography of Blind, a biographer, critic, novelist, essayist, and poet. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Naomi Tadmor, The Social Universe of the English Bible (Cambridge, ). Analyzes the relationship between Biblical translation and early modern culture, arguing that the translators in some ways "domesticated" the text. (Amazon)
- John Wolffe, ed., Protestant-Catholic Conflict from the Reformation to the 21st Century: The Dynamics of Religious Difference (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). Surveys anti-Catholicism and anti-Protestantism in Europe and the United States, focusing on theological, political, and cultural motivations. (Amazon)
- Margaret H. Turnham, Catholic Faith and Practice in England 1779-1992: The Role of Revivalism and Renewal (Boydell, 2015). Effects of missionary efforts on the state of the Catholic community. (Amazon [secondhand])