The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Clare Dudman, One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead (Viking, 2004).  Historical novel that draws on the life of Albert Wegener and his theory of continental drift. 
  • ---. 98 Reasons for Being (Viking, 2005).  Historical novel set in a nineteenth-century insane asylum.
  • Janice Holmes and Diane Urquhart, eds., Coming into the Light: The Work, Politics, and Religion of Women in Ulster, 1840-1940 (Dufour, 1995).  Collection of essays on Ulster women's history.
  • W. E. Sellon, An Essay on Sisterhoods in the English Church (Joseph Masters, 1849).  A favorable account.  (Despite the topic, Sellon doesn't seem to be related to Priscilla Lydia Sellon.)
  • "Britannicus," A Series of Letters, Addressed to a Friend, Upon the Roman Catholic Question (F. C. and J. Rivington, 1820).  Critique of the Whig position on toleration and Catholicism.
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