This Week's Acquisitions
- [Grace Kennedy], Father Clement: A Roman Catholic Story (William Oliphant, 1823). After thinking about this novel for many years, I finally managed to run down a first edition for my own collection. (eBay)
- Leonard de Vries, ed., Flowers of Delight: An Agreeable Garland of Prose and Poetry, 1765-1830 (Pantheon, 1965). An anthology of classic children's tales and tracts, ranging from grammar books to abolitionist poems. (Old Editions)
- Marilyn Pemberton, ed., Enchanted Ideologies: A Collection of Nineteenth-Century Moral Fairy Tales (True Bill, 2010). Collection of stories from mostly later Victorian periodicals. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Dance on the Volcano, trans. Kaiama L. Glover (Archipelago, 2016). Translation of Vieux-Chauvet's 1957 novel about a Haitian singer's growing radicalism on the eve of the Haitian Revolution in 1791. (Talking Leaves)
- Barbara Hanrahan, The Albatross Muff (Women's Press, 1978). An ex-convict returns to England with her young charge, with somewhat worrisome results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- M. O. Grenby, The Anti-Jacobin Novel: British Conservatism and the French Revolution (Cambridge, 2001). How writers like Amelia Opie, George Walker, Jane West, &c. attempted to combat radical politics via fiction. (Amazon)
- Olive Brose, Frederick Denison Maurice: Rebellious Conformist 1805-1872 (Ohio, 1971). Intellectual biography of the key Victorian theologian and moralist. (Old Editions)
- Albion M. Urdank, Birth, Death, and Religious Faith in an English Dissenting Community: A Microhistory of Nailsworth and Hinterland, 1695-1837 (Lexington, 2016). A demographic study of how reproduction and Christianity intersected. (Amazon)