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])

Comments

[nbmandel]

Hmph. Our library has four titles by Yates but not this one, which would seem to be of most general interest. Maybe I'll suggest it for purchase. (Well, it's of interest to me.) Should we read a new theme from the architecture & geography titles?

[Miriam]

The subject comes up quite a bit in at least some of my religious novels, so I'm expanding my reading on the topic...