This Week's Acquisitions

(A-CHOO! Darned post-conference ailment.)

• Mrs. Stevenson, A Wife's Faith, or, Reaping the Whirlwind (Church of England Temperance Society, n.d.).  A young woman's faith eventually keeps her husband on the straight and narrow after his drinking brings about near-disaster, whereas a close friend of his drinks himself into insanity and commits suicide.  (eBay)
• Rev. P. B. Power and Edith M. Dauglish, Linked to a Thought and Soldier and Servant and Other Stories (Church of England Temperance Society, n.d.).  A novella and a short-story collection. I described the former here.  (eBay)
• Henrietta M. K. Brownell, God's Way: Man's Way: A Story of Bristol (Catholic Publication Society and Burns and Oates, 1885).  Catholic novel.  When one woman is believed dead, her husband marries another.  Just one problem... (eBay)
• Mother Mary Peter Carthy, English Influences on Early American Catholicism (Catholic U of America, 1959).  Published doctoral dissertation about an "Anglo-American" tradition in the Catholic church, including missions, education, responses to anti-Catholicism, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• John Watts, Scalan: The Forbidden College, 1716-1799 (Tuckwell, 1999).  History of an illicit Scottish Catholic seminary (which I didn't actually order, but the seller didn't think it was worth their money for me to return it...).  More information here.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture (U of North Carolina, 2016).  Fiction, art history, gender roles, etc.  (Amazon)