This Week's Acquisitions

(This turned out to be a Catholic week.)

• Mary Elizabeth Herbert, Countess Herbert of Lea, From Silk to Sackcloth: A Tale of These Latter Days (H. L. Kilner, c. 1899).  A woman is abandoned by her lover, forced into an aristocratic marriage of convenience, grows apart from her son, and finally finds happiness as a nun.  (eBay)
• Rosa Mulholland, Lady Gilbert, The Tragedy of Chris (B. Herder, 1903).  Two Irish Catholics wind up in London, where one of them is ultimately ruined and goes insane.  (eBay)
• Publications of the Catholic Truth Society, Vol. XIV (CTS, 1891).  Various tracts, historical and fictional, including three short stories by Rosa Mulholland's sister Clara.  (AbeBooks)