This Week's Acquisitions

Jill Rappoport, Giving Women: Alliance and Exchange in Victorian Culture (OUP, 2011). Philanthropy and other modes of giving by women in the nineteenth century, ranging from gifts to religious salvation. I'm reviewing this for Nineteenth-Century Contexts. (Review copy)
K. D. M. Snell, Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity, and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700-1950 (CUP, 2009). Studies the parish as the organizational unit of local culture, tracing its decline, fall, and replacement by other forms of belonging. (Amazon [secondhand])
Michael Brown et al., eds., Converts and Conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (Four Courts, 2005). Essay collection analyzing conversion narratives, case studies of individual conversions, conversions to Protestantism/Catholicism, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])