This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Samuel Warren, Ten Thousand a Year (E. Littell, n.d.). American reprint in one volume of Warren's very long and very successful novel, first serialized in 1839, about legal machinations involving a will and an illegitimate son. (eBay)
- Walter Besant, In Deacon's Orders/Mary Cholmondeley, Red Pottage (Garland, 1976). In the first novel, a young Christian goes to wrack and ruin, winding up in an American jail, while in the second, a woman falls in love with a man who turns out to have a terrible secret. Part of the "Novels of Faith and Doubt" series. (Amazon [secondhand])
- The Month and Catholic Review, six vols., various (1874-90). Six volumes of this popular Catholic monthly, which included serial fiction. (eBay)
- Nick Carter, ed., Britain, Ireland, and the Italian Risorgimento (Palgrave, 2015). Intersections between Italian nationalism and various strands of English and Irish religious and political discourse. (Amazon)