This Week's Acquisitions
- Clara Mulholland, Kathleen Mavourneen (John Murphy, 1890). US reprint of a short Catholic novel about the sufferings of Irish Catholic tenants and the men and women who try to enact reforms. Clara was the sister of another Catholic novelist, Rosa Mulholland. (eBay)
- M. A. Wallace, Well! Well! A Tale, Founded on Fact (Sadlier, 1855). The fortunes of an Irish Catholic girl who emigrates to the United States. (eBay)
- Mary Hampden, The Girl with a Talent (RTS, [1894]). Late-Victorian religious novel involing a suddenly-impoverished family, strange doings with a will, romance, and a young woman with a strong singing voice. (eBay)
- Evelyn Whitaker, Miss Toosey's Mission and Laddie (Roberts Brothers, 1888). In the first story, a man is inspired by an apparently ridiculous spinster; in the second, a young doctor becomes alienated from his mother after he moves to London. (eBay)
- Emma Leslie, Teddy's Dream; Or, a Little Sweep's Mission (Robert Carther, 1874). US reprint of a novel about an impoverished boy's sufferings in London (as a chimney sweep, among other things) before his eventual reward. (eBay)
- Diana Wallace, Female Gothic HIstories: Gender, History and the Gothic (Wales, 2013). Studies how women writers appropriate Gothic conventions in order to trouble the waters of historical representation, from Sophia Lee to Sarah Waters. (Amazon [secondhand])