This Week's Acquisitions

S. Horton, Her Bonnie Pit Laddie: A Tale of Northern Methodism (Thomas Mitchell, c. 1892). Set in a Victorian mining community, and involves local religious politics, union organization, and the like. (eBay)
A. L. O. E., The Children's Tabernacle: Or, Hand-Work and Heart-Work (John F. Shaw, n.d. [c. 1872?]). In the subgenre of parents (and/or governesses, etc.) telling their children stories from the Bible. A. L. O. E. is the missionary Charlotte Maria Tucker. (eBay)
Nayah, The Little Hindoo Convert; The Gold-Mine; The Name on the Rock; The Plate of Cherries; The Rose-Tree; Charles Dwight, or The Missionary's Son (American Sunday-School Union, n.d. [1870s]). Six Religious Tract Society tracts, reprinted in the USA and bound together. (eBay)
Rachel Cusk, The Country Life (Picador, 1997). Young woman answers ad for au pair, discovers strange goings-on in distinctly Jane Eyre-ish fashion. (eBay)