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• Fears and Fascinations: Representing Catholicism in the American South (New York: Fordham University Press, 2005), by Thomas F. Haddox (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Characters of the Inquisition (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, c1940), by William Thomas Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of Saints and Wonders, Put Down Here by Lady Gregory according to the Old Writings and the Memory of the People of Ireland, by Lady Gregory (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Historias de la Corte Celestial, por un Sacristan Jubilado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta popular, ca. 1891), by Narciso Campillo y Correa (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Lives of the Companions of St. Alphonso Liguori (London: T. Richardson and Son, 1849), contrib. by Antonio Maria Tannoja, Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, and Joseph Landi
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1854), by L. Silliman Ives (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Autobiography of Madame Guyon (2 volumes; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1898), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, trans. by Thomas Taylor Allen
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust

• Great American Foundresses (New York: Macmillan, 1929), by Joseph B. Code (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), by George Edson Dutton (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• Lives of the English Martyrs Declared Blessed by Pope Leo XIII, in 1885 and 1895 (reissue, 2 volumes; London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1914), ed. by Bede Camm
  • Volume I (Martyrs Under Henry VIII): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Martyrs Under Queen Elizabeth): multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts of English Martyrs, Hitherto Unpublished (London: Burns and Oates, 1891), by John Hungerford Pollen, contrib. by John Morris (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Forgotten Shrines: An Account of Some Old Catholic Halls and Families in England, and of Relics and Memorials of the England Martyrs (1910), by Bede Camm (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Abbe Mouret's Transgression, by Émile Zola, ed. by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (Gutenberg text)
• Almost a Priest: A Tale That Deals in Facts (Philadelphia: McKinney and Martin, 1870), by Julia McNair Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• San Salvador (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1892), by Mary Agnes Tincker
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Weeping Bay (New York: Macmillan, 1950), by Joy Davidman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Eustace: A Tale of the Jesuits (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn, 1847), by Frances Milton Trollope
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Scandal of Father Brown (1935), by G. K. Chesterton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Secret of Father Brown (c1927), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Incredulity of Father Brown (1926), by G. K. Chesterton
  • illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• The Ball and the Cross, by G. K. Chesterton (Gutenberg text)
• The Innocence of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• The Innocence of Father Brown (New York: The Macaulay Co., c1911), by G. K. Chesterton
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Wisdom of Father Brown, by G. K. Chesterton
  • HTML at CCEL
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
• Dom Casmurro (in Portuguese; Rio de Janeiro and Paris: H. Garnier, 1899), by Machado de Assis (Gutenberg text)

• An Appeal From the Protestant Association to the People of Great Britain, Concerning the Probable Tendency of the Late Act of Parliament in Favour of the Papists (London: Printed by J. W. Parham, 1779), by Protestant Association (London, England) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Penal Laws Enacted Against Roman Catholics (London et al.: T. Richardson and Son, 1847), by Richard Robert Madden (multiple formats at Google)

• A Briefe Relation of the Persecution Lately Made Against the Catholike Christians, in the Kingdome of Iaponia, Divided into Two Bookes: the First Part (1619), by Pedro Morejon, trans. by William Wright (page images at University of Tsukuba Library)

• The Lily and the Cross: A Tale of Acadia (Boston: Lee and Shepard, c1874), by James De Mille
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• My Early Adventures During the Peninsular Campaigns of Napoleon (Boston: J. Loring, 1833), by Selina Bunbury (multiple formats at Google)

• Maryland Not a Roman Catholic Colony: Stated in Three Letters (Minneapolis: Johnson and Smith, printers, 1875), by Edward D. Neill
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• East Timor: Just a Political Question? (ACSJC occasional paper #11; North Sydney, NSW: Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, 1992), by Geoffrey Hull (PDF in Australia)

• Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth-Century America (originally published 1992; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Philip Gleason (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Catholic, Jew, Ku Klux Klan: What They Believe, Where They Conflict (Chicago: Nutshell Pub. Co., c1924), ed. by George S. Clason (PDF page images at MSU)
• Catholics in Controversy (New York: McMullen Books, c1954), by James M. O'Neill (page images at HathiTrust)

• Heaven Was Not Enough (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1955), by Constance Marie O'Hara (page images at HathiTrust)
• Briefe an Einen Protestantischen Freund (in German; St. Paul, MN: Der Wanderer, ca. 1894), by Hugo Klapproth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Confessions of a Convert, by Robert Hugh Benson (HTML at Notre Dame)
• Gropings After Truth: A Life Journey from New England Congregationalism to the One Catholic and Apostolic Church, by Joshua Huntington (page images at MOA)

• Research on Culture and Values: Intersection of Universities, Churches and Nations, ed. by George F. McLean (PDF at crvp.org)

• A Vietnamese Moses: Philiphê Bỉnh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2017), by George Edson Dutton (multiple formats with commentary at Luminos)

• From Union Square to Rome (1938), by Dorothy Day (HTML at Catholic Worker)
• Angelic Troublemakers: Religion and Anarchism in America (New York et al.: Bloomsbury, c2014), by Anthony Terrance Wiley
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Autobiography of Madame Guyon, by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Autobiography of Madame Guyon (2 volumes; London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1898), by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon, trans. by Thomas Taylor Allen
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Statement of the Difficulties Between the Diocese of North Carolina and Dr. Ives, Lately Bishop of Said Diocese (Fayetteville, NC: E. Hall and Son, 1853), by Episcopal Church Diocese of North Carolina (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: A Letter to His Old Friends (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1854), by L. Silliman Ives (multiple formats at archive.org)

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