Come Rack! Come Rope!

*Come Rack! Come Rope!* by Robert Hugh Benson is a powerful historical novel set in Elizabethan England during the late sixteenth century, when adherence to Roman Catholicism could expose individuals and entire households to fines, imprisonment, and execution. First published in 1912, the novel portrays a society in which religious allegiance has become inseparable from political loyalty, and wher...