This Week's Acquisitions
- Russell Banks, The Darling (HarperCollins, 2004). An American woman recalls her experiences as a youthful radical in Liberia.
- Patrick Welwood, A Tale of the Times of the Kirk and the Covenant, For the Young (David Bryce, 1839). Scottish historical novel about the Covenanters, told in the first person by a man nearing the date of his execution.
- Maud Vevers, Lettice Temple: A Story of the Days of Bishop Ken (National Society's Depository, [1900]). King James II, Judge Jeffreys, etc.
- Maria Edgeworth, Harrington, ed. Susan Manly (Broadview, 2004). Reprint of Edgeworth's anti-anti-Semitic novel, including the famous correspondence with Rachel Mordecai Lazarus that inspired it.
- Frances Burney, The Witlings and The Woman-Hater, ed. Peter Sabor and Geoffrey Sill (Broadview, 2002). Two of Burney's plays.
- Charlotte Smith, Celestina (Broadview, 2004). Smith's third novel, with a female poet as its heroine.