This Week's Acquisitions
- Charlotte Yonge, Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise (Macmillan, 1909). Reprint of one of Yonge's lesser-known novels, an autobiographical fiction set during the Fronde. (Better World Books)
- ALOE [Charlotte Maria Tucker], On the Way; Or, Places Passed by Pilgrims (T. Nelson and Sons, 1871). Two children read and apply the lessons of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress to their everyday lives. (Small World Books)
- Christopher Hope, Darkest England (Norton, 1996). A satire of imperial/missionary travel narratives, supposedly a "found manuscript" of a San traveler to England's experiences in the early 90s. (Small World Books)
- Fiona Kidman, The Book of Secrets (Vintage, 1994). Historical novel about the experiences of three women who formed part of the community around Norman McLeod. (Small World Books)
- Richard Dalby and Brian J. Frost, eds., Dracula's Brethren (Harper, 2017). New anthology of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century vampire stories from Britain, Russia, the United States... (Amazon)
- James M. Cahalan, Great Hatred, Little Room: The Irish Historical Novel (Syracuse, 1983). Critical study stretching from the Banims to the late 1970s. (Amazon [secondhand])