The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Lady Georgiana Fullerton, A Stormy Life: A Novel (Appleton, 1871). Catholic historical novel, told in diary format, about Margaret of Anjou. First published in the UK in 1867.

  • Evelyn Everett-Green, For the Faith (Nelson, 1908). Another historical novel, this time about the Oxford Martyrs. First published in 1902.

  • Emma Marshall, Memories of Troublous Times: Being the History of Dame Alicia Chamberlayne of Ravensholme, Gloucestershire (Seeley, 1880). Yet another historical novel. An elderly woman writes an autobiography about life during the English Civil War, with emphasis on the Siege of Gloucester.

  • Erica Jong, Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice (Norton, 2003). Reprint of Jong's 1987 time-travel novel about a twentieth-century actress who winds up having a romance with Shakespeare.

  • John Kucich and Dianne F. Sadoff, eds., Victorian Afterlife: Postmodern Culture Rewrites the Nineteenth Century (Minnesota, 2000). Essays on neo-Victorianism.

  • Victor Sage, Horror Fiction in the Protestant Tradition (St. Martin's, 1988). Protestant theology's effects on the Gothic.
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