This Week's Acquisitions
- Agnes Giberne, Madge Hardwicke; Or, the Mists of the Valley (John F. Shaw, n.d.). Late-Victorian didactic novel, featuring illness, mystery, and the dangers of rationalism.
- Ian McEwan, Saturday (Talese, 2005). The sight of a plane in flames sends one man's world spinning.
- The Churchman, vols. I (1835) and III (1837). Two bound volumes of an Anglican magazine, mostly devoted to attacks on Dissenters and Catholics.
- Linda Peterson, Traditions of Victorian Women's Autobiography: The Poetics and Politics of Life Writing (Virginia, 1999). Autobiographies both real (Martineau, Tonna) and fictional (Jane Eyre, Aurora Leigh).