This Week's Last Month or So's Acquisitions
- The Still Week. A Tale for the Wednesday before Easter (J. T. Hayes, n.d.). #35 in a series of Anglican tracts entitled "Church Stories." A boy and his dog monkey leave the Continent to find the boy's brother in England. (eBay)
- The Week Completed, 2nd ed. (General Protestant Episcopal Sunday School Union, n.d.). Last in a series of novellas, this one about honoring the Sabbath, among other things. Earliest publication date appears to be about 1827; possibly by Eliza Cheap. (eBay)
- Frank Martin; Or, a Schoolboy's Trials and Victories. A Tale for the Young (T. Nelson, 1877). Young Frank has a series of adventures with religious morals attached (breaking his arm, for example), until he finally winds up as a gardener. (eBay)
- C. R., Annette; Or, Love is Stronger than Death (SPCK, [1873]); bound with Blind Annie: A Tale for Children (SPCK, n.d.). First novella is set during the French Revolution; the second is about a blind girl's influence (she is apparently rewarded by regaining her sight). (eBay)
- Sara Stockbridge, Grace Hammer: A Novel of the Victorian Underworld (Norton, 2009). Whitechapel! Jack the Ripper era! Theft! Etc. (eBay)
- Robert Player, Let's Talk of Graves, of Worms, and Epitaphs (Penguin, 1977). A late-Victorian clergyman successfully turns himself into the Pope; generally regarded as a quasi-response to Fr. Rolfe's, ah, quirky Hadrian the Seventh. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Susanna Moore, One Last Look (Knopf, 2003). Historical novel, beginning in 1836, about how the wife of the Governor-General in Calcutta experiences India. (eBay)
- Adam Foulds, The Quickening Maze (Penguin, 2009). Historial novel about the poet John Clare's life in the High Beach insane asylum. (eBay)
- D. J. Taylor, Ask Alice (Pegasus, 2009). Young American woman reinvents herself in English society during the early twentieth century. (eBay)
- George J. Worth, Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907: 'No Flippancy or Abuse Allowed' (Ashgate, 2003). Monograph study of Macmillan's Magazine, its editorial policies, publishing history, relations with authors, etc. (eBay)
- David S. Reynolds, Faith in Fiction: The Emergence of Religious Literature in America (Harvard, 1981). What it says on the tin. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Tomoko Masuzawa, The Invention of World Religions (Chicago, 2005). Intellectual history of how the concept of "world religions" emerged during the nineteenth century. (eBay)
- Sheridan Gilley and Brian Stanley, eds., The Cambridge History of Christianity: World Christianities, c. 1815-c. 1914 (Cambridge, 2006). Christian denominations wherever there were Christian denominations. (Incidentally, this was actually an affordable paperback. How did that happen?!) (Amazon)
- Mark D. Chapman, The Fantasy of Reunion: Anglicans, Catholics, and Ecumenism, 1833-1882 (Oxford, 2014). Various people try to figure out how to bring the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church back together; do not succeed. (I see that Amazon's price has shot up on this one since I purchased it.) (Amazon)