This Week's Acquisitions
- Mary H. Debenham, Household Troops: Or, Small Service is True Service (SPCK, n.d.). A young woman and her sister deal with various troubles against the background of the Franco-Prussian War. (eBay)
- William A. Lacey, Through Storm to Sunshine (Nelson, 1888). A temperance novel (and Band of Hope prizewinner) about a young man adopted after his impoverished mother dies of her alcoholism. (eBay)
- Elizabeth Thiel, The Fantasy of Family: Nineteenth-Century Children's Literature and the Myth of the Domestic Ideal (Routledge, 2008). Representations of orphan rescues, stepmothers, problematic relatives, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])