This Week's Acquisitions
- Thomas Longueville, A Romance of the Recusants (British Library, n.d.). Facsimile reprint of Longueville's Catholic historical novel, originally published in 1888, set during the early reign of Queen Elizabeth. Longueville (or de Longueville) was best known as a satirist on matters religious, especially The Life of a Prig and its sequels. (Amazon)
- Stephanie Forward, ed., Dreams, Visions and Realities (Birmingham, 2003). Anthology of mostly feminist fiction from around the turn of the twentieth century, both English and American. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Anne Markey, ed., Children's Fiction 1765-1808 (Four Courts, 2011). Anthology of early Irish children's fiction. Includes two short novels by John Carey and Margaret King Moore, and three short stories by Henry Brooke, John Clowes, and an anonymous author. (Amazon [secondhand])
- George Turnbull, Education for Life: Correspondence and Writings on Religion and Practical Philosophy, ed. M. A. Stewart and Paul Wood (Liberty Fund, 2015). Yet another volume in the Liberty Fund's verrrry long-running "Natural Law and Enlightenment Classics" series, collecting an assortment of Turnbull's print and MS writings on modern Christianity and its practice. (Liberty Fund)
- Anne M. Boylan, Sunday School: The Formation of an American Institution, 1790-1880 (Yale, 1990). Discusses the roots and functions (religious and civic) of the Protestant Sunday School movement. (eBay)