This (Last) Week's (Slightly Belated) Acquisitions

(Introduction + painting the living room = confusion, clearly.)

• Fr. Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh (NYRB, 2001).  Reprint of Rolfe's cult classic about an Englishman who becomes Pope, aggravates various people, and gets assassinated.  For more on the ultra-eccentric Rolfe, see here.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Sabina Muray,  The Caprices (Grove, 2007).  Short stories set during WWII.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Margaret Nancy Cutt, Ministering Angels: A Study of Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Writing for Children (Five Owls, 1979).  Includes chapters on Mrs. Sherwood, A.L.O.E. (Charlotte Maria Tucker), Hesba Stretton (Sarah Smith), and Mrs. O. F. Walton.  (Abebooks)