This Week's Acquisitions

(Oh, look! New router = actual web access lasting longer than two minutes at a shot.  Now I can write that blog post about Under the Pendulum Sun.)

• Mrs. Sherwood, Social Tales for the Young (Darton, n.d.).  A collection of moral short tales on topics like self-control, gratitude, religious education, etc.  (eBay)
• Mary Hilton and Jill Shefrin, eds., Educating the Child in Enlightenment Britain: Beliefs, Cultures, Practices (Routledge, 2009).  Religion and education (both Protestant and Catholic), genres of educational books, pedagogy, marketing, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• John Bossy, The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850 (Darton, Longman, and Todd, 1975).  Classic study of English Catholics from the Elizabethan period to the restoration of the hierarchy. (Amazon [secondhand])
• Roger E. Martin, Evangelicals United: Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre-Victorian Britain, 1795-1830 (Scarecrow, 1983).  Early attempts to construct a united Protestantism.  (Amazon [secondhand])