This Week's Acquisitions
- Silas Hocking, His Father; Or, a Mother's Legacy (Frederick Warne, 1891). A young orphan sets off for Wales to find his grandfather, and has many dangerous adventures along the way. One of the many novels from the prolific Hocking, a Methodist and part of the Hocking writing family. (eBay)
- Margaret S. Comrie, The Gold of that Land; Or, Margherita Brandini's Deliverance (RTS, n.d.). Late-Victorian evangelical novel set in Italy, featuring various Catholic shenanigans involving an estate and, of course, the title character's ultimate conversion. (eBay)
- F. E. Reade, Patty Burton; Or, the Ninth Commandment (SPCK, n.d.). Another late-Victorian novel, this one about the dangers of gossip and bearing false witness. (eBay)
- George W. M. Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, vol. II, intro. Mary L. Shannon (Valancourt, 2015). Second volume in a complete reprint of Reynolds' (in)famous penny dreadful, in which everything that can go wrong does. Somewhat voluminous. (Amazon)
- Howard D. Weinbrot, Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780 (Johns Hopkins, 2013). "Evolutionary" argument about the role of religious strife in shaping something resembling a cohesive English community. (Amazon)
- Colleen A. Vasconcellos, Slavery, Childhood, and Abolition in Jamaica, 1788-1838 (Georgia, 2015). Transformation of attitudes amongst planters in the period leading up to emancipation, including the role of religion. (Amazon)
- Leonee Ormond, Linley Sambourne: Illustrator and Punch Cartoonist (Holberton, 2010). Study of Edward Linley Sambourne's career, focusing on his work as a caricaturist and political satirist. (Greenwood)