This Week's Acquisitions

(Incidentally, posting will be light for the next couple of days, due to circumstances completely under my control--namely, midterms to grade.)

• Charlotte Maria Pepys, The Diary and Houres of the Ladye Adolie: A Faythfulle Childe, 1552 (Addey and  Co., 1853).  Elaborate fictional diary.  You can see images at the Internet Archive; the book's faux-sixteenth century appearance was courtesy of the Chiswick Press. 
• Gail Turley Houston, Royalties: The Queen and Victorian Writers (Virginia, 1999).  Critical study of how Victorian authors responded to a female monarch.
• James A. Secord, Controversy in Victorian Geology: The Cambrian-Silurian Dispute (Princeton, 1986).  Geological warfare in early Victorian science.