This Week's Acquisitions

• Bound volume of seven tracts, various authors and publishers, 1820-26.  Authors include Henri Malan, Mrs. Sherwood, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna.  The volume was owned by a young Georgiana Alice Brooke, who can be spotted on this page.  (eBay)
• Mick Jackson, Yuki Chan in Bronte Country (Faber & Faber, 2016).  A Japanese visitor to the Haworth area tries to figure out what happened to her mother many years earlier.  (Lift Bridge)
• Eileen P. Sullivan, The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish American Novelists Shape American Catholicism (Notre Dame, 2016).  Analyzes the emergence of the American Catholic novel and its religious and cultural influence.  (Amazon)
• Patricia Murphy, The New Woman Gothic: Reconfigurations of Distress (Missouri, 2016).  Argues that the late-Victorian New Woman was frequently imagined in terms appropriated from Gothic conventions, with variable political results.    I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
• Frederick D. Aquino and Benjamin J. King, eds., Receptions of Newman (Oxford, 2015).  What it says on the tin: how John Henry Newman has been understood and appropriated across a variety of theological traditions, from his time to the present.  (Amazon)
• Libby Schweber, Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830-1885 (Columbia, 2006).  Comparative analysis of the role of statistics in government policy.  (Amazon [secondhand])