This Week's Acquisitions
- John Crowley, Daemonomania (Bantam, 2001). Seventeenth-century heresy meets magic, historians, and middle-aged romance.
- Sabina Murray, A Carnivore's Inquiry (Grove, 2005). Mysterious deaths and cannibalism.
- Emma Leslie, From Storm to Calm: A Tale of Last Century (RTS, n.d.). The typo in the title is courtesy of the RTS, not me. An author's presentation copy. (All three presentation copies were given to members of the same family, the Leggatts, over a period of twenty-five years.)
- ---, Lady Marjorie: A Story of Methodist Work a Hundred Years Ago (Charles Kelly, 1892). Methodism and evangelicalism in the late eighteenth century. Author's presentation copy.
- ---, Constancia's Household: A Story of the Spanish Reformation (Sunday School Union, [1872]). The Inquisition. Author's presentation copy.
- ---, Flavia: Or, "Loyal unto the end", A Tale of the Church in the Second Century (Hitchcock & Walden, 1875). An "Early Church" novel, of the sort discussed by Royal Rhodes.
- ---, Leofwine the Saxon: A Story of Hopes and Struggles (Nelson & Phillips, 1875). A story of the "Dark Ages."
- ---, Elfreda: A Sequel to Leofwine (Hitchcock & Walden, 1875). Henry II and King John.
- Alexandra Walsham, Providence in Early Modern England (Oxford, 1999). Debates over the nature of divine providence.
- Caroline McCracken-Flesher, Possible Scotlands: Walter Scott And The Story Of Tomorrow (Oxford, 2005). Scott's fictional constructions of Scottish national identities, past and future. I'm reviewing it for Choice.