This Week's Month's Acquisitions
- Rachel McCrindell, The English Governess: A Tale of Real Life (Herman Hooker, 1844). Important early "governess novel" about the trials and tribulations of this job. First American ed. (eBay)
- Edward Everett Hale, Margaret Percival in America: A Tale (Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1850). Unitarian response to Elizabeth Missing Sewell's Tractarian novel, Margaret Percival. (eBay)
- The Two Sufferers Contrasted; Or, Fear and Anguish and Joy and Peace. A Record of Facts from the Chamber of Sickness and Death (American Sunday-School Union, 1849). Religious tract about--you guessed it--how religion affects the ways in which the ill and dying respond to their imminent demise. (eBay)
- Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers (Europa, 2012). Reprint of Burgess' 1980 novel about the yoked fortunes of a commercially-successful gay novelist and...a Pope...during the twentieth century. (Barnes & Noble)
- Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations (James Eastburn, 1817). Fourth edition of Adams' significant reference work, first published in 1784 as A View of Religious Opinions. (eBay)
- Child's Companion and Juvenile Instructor (1862). One volume of this Religious Tract Society periodical. (eBay)
- Peter van der Veer, Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton, 2001). Analyzes how British and Indian religious and intellectual traditions mutually influenced each other during the Victorian period. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Paul S. Ell and K. D. M. Snell, Rival Jerusalems: The Geography of Victorian Religion (Cambridge, 2009). Who was worshipping how where and when. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Nigel Yates, Liturgical Space: Christian Wordship and Church Buildings in Europe 1500-2000 (Ashgate, 2008). Examines relationship between liturgical and architectural traditions (and innovations). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Emmet Larkin, The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1850-1860 (North Carolina, 1980). One volume in Larkin's standard history of developments in nineteenth-century Irish Catholicism. (Amazon [secondhand])