The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • A. D. Crake, The Last Abbot of Glastonbury: A Tale of the Dissolution of the Monasteries (Mowbray, n.d.). High Church attack on Henry VIII. The ninth of Crake's novels devoted to ecclesiastical history; recently reprinted by Kessinger, a publisher that, as I recall, used to specialize in the occult, but now reprints a lot of rare and eccentric texts.

  • Mick Jackson, The Underground Man (Penguin, 1997). Novel about the eccentric 5th Duke of Portland.

  • Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: A Novel (Bloomsbury, 2004). Fantasy about two magicians in early nineteenth-century England.

  • David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Random House, 2004). Interlocking stories in multiple eras and multiple genres.

  • Kay Boardman and Shirley Jones, eds., Popular Victorian Women Writers (Manchester, 2004). Essays on Mary Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Jessie Fothergill, etc., etc. (I'm reviewing it.)
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