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)

Comments

[Roger]

Off topic, I'm afraid.
Another addition to your "child in Victorian/Edwardian literature" writings is Saki/H.H. Munro in his short stories and the early parts of The Unbearable Bassington. His children are completely unlike those in any other books of the time and very convincing.

[arnold]

I'd never thought of Robert Player's Let's Talk of Graves .. as a response to Hadrian the Seventh, more as a fictional riff on the life of Manning in Strachey's Eminent Victorians.

[Miriam]

Oh, it's definitely mostly Strachey's "Cardinal Manning," now that I've finished Let's Talk, but Player has Hadrian the Seventh sneakily tucked away in his bibliography. The basic idea is borrowed from Hadrian, and then Player fiddles around for a bit with its sanctimonious score-settling.