This (Last Two) Week's Acquisitions

(Unfortunately, I've also acquired a really persistent cold.  *sneezes*)

• John Lang, The Forger's Wife (Grattan Street Press, 2017).  Reprint of Lang's 1856 novel about a young woman who must deal with the repercussions of her husband's criminality after he is transported.  (Amazon)
• Rachel Hall, Heirlooms (BkMk Press, 2016).  Collection of short stories tracking the experiences of a Jewish family during the twentieth century.  (Amazon)
• Josephine M. Guy, Fin-de-Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts (Edinburgh, 2018).  New companion to the 1890s, to which yours truly contributed.  (Author's copy)
• Jacqueline Hill, From Patriots to Unionists: Dublin Civic Politics and Irish Protestant Patriotism, 1660-1840 (Oxford, 1997).  The significance of social, class, and denominational allegiances in shaping early modern to early Victorian Irish politics.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• James Rezek, London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (Penn, 2015). The interplay between metropolitan publishing and emergent "national literary traditions" (blurb) during the early 19th c. (Amazon [secondhand])