This Week's Acquisitions
- Mrs. Carver, The Horrors of Oakendale Abbey, ed. Curt Herr (Zittaw, 2006). Young woman heads off to live in ruinous abbey; as one might expect, bad things happen. Originally published in 1797. (Amazon)
- Carol Birch, Jamrach's Menagerie (Doubleday, 2011). Neo-Victorian novel about an orphan who finds himself out hunting a mysterious "dragon." (Amazon [secondhand])
- The Christian's Penny Magazine 2 (1833). Second volume of this successful Congregationalist weekly, which seems to have been something of an annoyance to Anglican readers. (eBay)
- J. C. H. Aveling, D. M. Loades, and H. R. McAdoo, Rome and the Anglicans: Historical and Doctrinal Aspects of Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations, ed. Wolfgang Haase (de Gruyter, 1982). Controversies, attempts at reconciliation, political maneuvering, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Rene Kollar, A Foreign and Wicked Institution? The Campaign against Convents in Victorian England (Pickwick, 2011). Collection of Fr. Kollar's articles on various aspects of Victorian anti-Catholicism related specifically to convents, including rumors about "immured" nuns, Barbara Ubryk, and the like. (Amazon)