This Week's Acquisitions
- C. L. Brightwell, Palissy the Huguenot Potter (RTS). One of two Victorian historical novels about Bernard Palissy; the other is Anne Manning's The Provocations of Madame Palissy. (eBay)
- Annie Proulx, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner, 2008). New collection. (BOMC)
- Sabina Murray, Forgery (Grove, 2008). Faked Greek antiquities + murder = identity crisis. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Isabel Colegate, The Summer of the Royal Visit (Penguin, 1992). Queen Victoria's arrival in a well-known resort area is anticipated by a motley collection of residents, frauds, etc. Colegate's best-known novel is The Shooting Party. (eBay)
- Michele Roberts, The Mistressclass (Holt, 2003). Brontes + academia + erotica + angst. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Julia Kavanagh, English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (Tauchnitz, 1862). Actually, biographical-critical sketches of women novelists, by another novelist. An important example of nineteenth-century writing on women's literature. (eBay)
- Anna Maria Jones, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Ohio, 2007). Reading and the construction of nineteenth-century subjectivity. (Amazon [secondhand])
- The Christian Wreath of Prose, Poetry, and Art (RTS, probably 1855 or 1856). A Christian literary annual. (eBay)
- The Churchman's Companion 32 (1862). Church of England journal; I own a couple of later volumes as well. (eBay)