Title: Books and Religious Devotion
Description: "Examines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth-century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books. Reveals how books can structure a life of devotion and social participation, and presents an authentic, holistic view of one reader's interior life"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Books and reading, Marginalia, New england, biography, History, Library, Christianity, Religious aspects