This Week's Acquisitions
- Jan Bondeson, The London Monster: A Sanguinary Tale (DaCapo, 2002). Cultural study of a particularly bizarre series of slasher attacks in the 1790s.
- Kathleen Jones, A Passionate Sisterhood: The Sisters, Wives, and Daughters of the Lake Poets (Constable, 1997). Group biography of the women in the Wordsworth Circle, including Dorothy Wordsworth and Sara Hutchinson.
- Barbara T. Gates, Kindred Nature: Victorian and Edwardian Women Embrace the Living World (Chicago, 1999). Female scientists, anti-vivisectionists, popularizers, etc.