This Week's Acquisitions
- Lady Georgiana Fullerton, Ellen Middleton (John Murphy, n.d.). Lady Georgiana's first novel, published before her conversion to Catholicism.
- Emma Jane Worboise, Campion Court: A Tale of the Days of the Ejectment Two Hundred Years Ago (Isbister, 1885). A rare venture into historical fiction by this very Low Church novelist.
- Marie Corelli, Wormwood, ed. Kirsten MacLeod (Broadview, 2004). Reprint of Corelli's 1890 shocker about the dangers of absinthe.
- Anna Banti, Artemesia, trans. Shirley D'Ardia Caracciolo (Bison, 1995). New translation of Banti's 1947 historical novel about the painter Artemisia Gentileschi.
- Leslie Forbes, Fish, Blood, and Bone (FSG, 2001). Parallel-plot historical mystery, set in the 1980s and 1880s.
- A. S. Byatt, Little Black Book of Stories (Knopf, 2004). Collection of dark psychological tales.
- Duncan Sprott, The Ptolemies (Knopf, 2004). Historical novel about the Greek-turned-Pharoah, narrated by, er, the god Thoth.
- Paul Di Filippo, The Steampunk Trilogy (Four Walls Eight Windows, 1997). Three really, really alternative history stories, set in Victorian Britain and America.
- Gregory Maguire, Mirror Mirror (Regan, 2003). Snow White meets the Borgias.
- Deborah Alcock, The Romance of Protestantism (Hodder and Stoughton, 1909). Popular overview of Protestant history by a prolific late-Victorian novelist.
- R. P. Blakeney, Manual of Romish Controversy: Being a Complete Refutation of the Creed of Pope Pius IV (Hope, n.d.). Later ed. (post-1870) of Blakeney's popular anti-Catholic catechism.
- Barry Milligan, Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in 19th-Century British Culture (Virginia, 1995). Opium and Orientalism.
- Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (Intervarsity, 2003). First of a projected series devoted to the history of Anglo-American evangelicalism.
- Michael Anglo, Penny Dreadfuls and Other Victorian Horrors (Jupiter, 1977). Illustrated history of the Victorian pulps.
- Aileen Fyfe, Science and Salvation: Evangelical Popular Publishing in Victorian Britain (Chicago, 2004). Evangelical attempts to disseminate scientific concepts so as to fend off the danger of secular popular science texts.