This Week's Acquisitions

Stefan Dziemianowicz, ed., The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (Fall River, 2015). Anthology featuring late-19th and early 20th-c. Anglo-American detectives, as well as some Sherlockian parodies. (Barnes & Noble)
John Bulmer, My Mother's Predicament: A Tale (BL, n.d.). British Library reprint of a Catholic novel first issued in 1893. A woman remarries, discovers that her second husband is a Dastardly Villain, and then must deal with the fallout. Quasi-epistolary in form (possibly influenced by Wilkie Collins). (Amazon)
Geoffrey Cubitt. The Jesuit Myth: Conspiracy Theory and Politics in Nineteenth-Century France (Oxford, 1993). History of various French attacks on purportedly omnipresent Jesuits, something of obvious relevance across the Channel. (Amazon [secondhand])
June Skye Szirotny, George Eliot's Feminism: "The Right to Rebellion" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Argues that Eliot was more sympathetic to the women's rights movements than is commonly believed. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)