The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Frances Taylor, The Wise Nun of Eastonmere and Other Tales (H. L. Kilner, n.d.).  Collection of a novella and a couple of short stories by Taylor, a.k.a. Mother Mary Magdalen Taylor.  Catholic didactic fiction, as one might expect.  (eBay)
  • Barry Unsworth, The Quality of Mercy: A Novel (Random House, 2011).  A sequel to Unsworth's Sacred Hunger, revolving around the events of a mutiny aboard a slave ship.  Some of the plot elements resemble the notorious Zong case (which happened later than the novel's setting).  (BOMC)
  • Patricia Demers, Heaven upon Earth: The Form of Moral and Religious Children's Literature, to 1850 (Tennessee, 1993).  Surveys all the major genres, both fictional and non- (e.g., catechisms, alphabets).  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • William S. Peterson, Victorian Heretic: Mrs. Humphry Ward's Robert Elsmere (Leicester, 1976).    Monograph on the religious and cultural significance of one of the great Victorian bestsellers.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Robert Kent Donovan, No Popery and Radicalism (Garland, 1987).  Reprint of a dissertation on objections to liberalizing Catholicism's position in eighteenth-century Scotland.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Jules Stewart, Albert (I. B. Tauris, 2012).  New biography of Prince Albert.  (BOMC)
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