This Week's Acquisitions
- Kate Thompson Sizer, Dickon O'Greenwood. Or, How the Light came to Lady Clare. A Village Picture in Martyr Days (Robert Culley, 1891). Religious novel set during the Marian persecutions. A young boy's father is put on trial for heresy, a priest converts to Protestantism, and so forth. (eBay)
- Henry Summersett, Leopold Warndorf, ed. Steve Orman (Valancourt, 2014). Reprint of an 1800 Gothic novel in which a young man (born out of wedlock) accidentally falls in love with his half-sister (also born out of wedlock). (Amazon)
- Felix Gilman, The Revolutions (TOR, 2014). In fin-de-siecle England, a young man and woman find themselves caught up in bizarre spiritualist doings, with potentially deadly results. (Amazon)
- Juliet Barker, The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family (Pegasus, 2013). Second edition of Barker's standard biography of the family. (Amazon [secondhand])