This Last Two Weeks' Acquisitions
- C. A. Jones, adapt., Only a Girl: The Story of a Quiet Life. A Tale of Brittany (Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., c. 1894). A young orphan girl forced into a life of servitude eventually receives a reward, of a sort. (eBay)
- Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian, The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Erckmann-Chatrian, ed. Hugh Lamb (Collins, 2018). Anthologizes the horror stories by this once-famous writing team, now usually remembered as historical novelists. (Amazon)
- Ian Wedde, Symmes Hole (Penguin, 1987). Parallel-plot historical novel set in 1820s and 1980s New Zealand, featuring two men in search of their own identity. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Emma Mason, Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith (Oxford, 2018). Spiritual biography analyzing Rossetti's work in the light of ecotheology. I'm reviewing this for the Journal of Religion and the Arts. (Review copy)
- Timothy Larsen, George MacDonald in the Age of Miracles: Incarnation, Doubt and Reenchantment (IVP, 2018). Reprints Larsen's Hansen Lectures on MacDonald's fiction as an attempt to "counteract skepticism and to herald instead the reality of the miraculous," along with the various responses to the lectures. (Free copy)
- Jackie C. Horne, History and the Construction of the Child in Early British Children's Literature (Ashgate, 2011). Historical fiction, representations of children in history, writing history for children, etc. (Amazon)
- Andrew King, The London Journal, 1845-83: Periodicals, Production and Gender (Ashgate, 2004). Uses the London Journal as a case study in periodical writing, reading, and publishing during the Victorian period. (Amazon)
- Rebecca Davies, Written Maternal Authority and Eighteenth-Century Education in Britain: Educating by the Book (Ashgate, 2014). Analyzes different ways of representing the mother as teacher within the home (and their wider implications for women's writing) from Richardson to Austen. (Amazon)
- Jean Fernandez, Victorian Servants, Class, and the Politics of Literacy (Routledge, 2010). Representations of servants, story-telling, and reading in both fiction and autobiography. (Amazon)