The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • C. M. Katherine Phipps, The Sword of de Bardwell: A Tale of Agincourt (Shaw, n.d.). Despite the title, Phipps is really interested in Sir John Oldcastle and the Lollards. Phipps' Henry V is a lot nicer than Shakespeare's version. As usual with Shaw's books, the decorative cover is hilariously inappropriate (although this one is rather pretty).

  • Janet Todd, Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation (Ballantine, 2004). Joint biography of Margaret and Mary King, who had Mary Wollstonecraft as their governess.

  • Rose Tremain, The Colour (FSG, 2003). Historical novel about gold-seekers in mid-19th c. New Zealand.

  • Simon Price and Emily Kearns, eds., The Oxford Dictionary of Classical Myth and Religion (OUP, 2003). Abridged from the Oxford Classical Dictionary.
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