(Some books appeared while I was on the other side of the country.)
- M. H., From Cottage to Castle; Or, Faithful in Little. A Tale Founded on Fact (Nimmo, 1883). The experiences of a young Scottish girl and her sister as they face various trials in the wake of their parents' deaths. (eBay)
- Florence E. Burch, Led by a Little Child, or the Blind Basket-Maker (RTS, n.d.). A little girl helps restore the faith of a man who lost his eyesight during a lightning strike. (eBay)
- Christine Alexander, ed., An Edition of the Early Writings of Charlotte Bronte, Volume II: The Rise of Angria, 1833-1835; Part 2: 1834-1835 (Basil Blackwell, 1991). Collection of Angria tales beginning with High Life in Verdopolis. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ottessa Moshfegh, McGlue: A Novella (Penguin, 2014). In the mid-nineteenth century, a man wakes up and tries to remember if he just killed someone. (Lift Bridge)
- Bryan Furuness, ed., My Name was Never Frankenstein: And Other Classic Adventure Tales Remixed (Indiana, 2019). Anthology of mashed-up and otherwise revised stories featuring famous literary characters. (Lift Bridge)
- Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne, eds., Charlotte Bronte: Legacies and Afterlives (Manchester, 2017). Ways in which both Bronte's life and her fiction have been dramatized, idolized, and reworked. (Amazon)
- Ian Haywood, Romanticism and Caricature (Cambridge, 2013). Analyzes a series of specific caricatures by Cruikshank, Gillray, Heath and Grant, and Rowlandson, looking at their implications for thinking about political debate in the early nineteenth century. (Amazon)
- Jessica Fay, Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance: Poetry, Place, and the Sense of Community (Oxford, 2018). Examines the importance of monastic ruins, Spenserian aesthetics, the pastoral, etc. for Wordsworth's representations of local community. (Amazon)
- Alison Milbank, God & the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition (Oxford, 2018). Argues that the Gothic is deeply rooted in post-Reformation theological questions. (Amazon)
- Tim Allender, Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932 (Manchester, 2016). Examines how ideas about gender altered in different contexts across India, including in education, missionary work, medicine, etc. (Amazon)
- Christopher Wakeling, Chapels of England: Buildings of Protestant Nonconformity (Historic England, 2017). An architectural history of Nonconformist chapels between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. (Amazon)
- Ethan Shagan, The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment (Princeton, 2018). A history of what it meant to "believe," including the new crisis of defining belief post-Reformation. (Amazon)
- Susan O'Brien, Leaving God for God: The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul in Britain, 1847-2017 (Longman, 2017). The history of a religious community, both in and of itself and as a way of thinking about Catholic history more generally. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ruth Compton Brouwer, New Women for God: Canadian Presbyterian Women and India Missions, 1876-1914 (Toronto, 1990). Studies how missionary work intersected with questions of early feminism and imperial politics. (Amazon [secondhand])
- David Fitzpatrick, Descendancy: Irish Protestant Histories since 1795 (Cambridge, 2014). Studies Protestant narratives about their sense of growing marginality, focusing on the role of the Orange Order. (Amazon)
- Diane Langmore, Missionary Lives: Papua, 1874-1914 (Hawaii, 1989). The personal experiences of missionaries to Papua, New Guinea (both Catholic and Protestant), including their relationships with indigenous people, domestic lives, educations, and so forth. (Amazon [secondhand])
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