This Week's Acquisitions

(Actually, the last two weeks' acquisitions--the college's mail service was shut down for the break.)

• F. W. Farrar, Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom (Longmans, 1895).  Historical novel about how the "nominal church" was infected by "the world."  Farrar's best-known novel is Eric; Or, Little by Little. Brief account of Farrar here.
• Emily Sarah Holt, Wearyholme; Or, Seedtime and Harvest.  A Tale of the Restoration of Charles the Second (Robert Carter and Bros., n.d.).  Or, why Charles II was not a Good Thing, but a Bad Thing.
• Helen Humphreys, Afterimage: A Novel (Metropolitan, 2000).  Historical novel loosely based on the work of Julia Margaret Cameron.
• Miranda Hearn, A Life Everlasting (Sceptre, 2003).  A man murdered in 1784 seeks the identity of his murderer(s).  For obvious reasons, this proves difficult.
• Ronan Bennett, Havoc, in Its Third Year (Simon & Schuster, 2004).  Historical novel about seventeenth-century religious fanaticism, akin in purpose to Arthur Miller's The Crucible.
• Kate Atkinson, Behind the Scenes at the Museum (Picador, 1999).  Young woman narrates the story of her life--and of England in the second half of the twentieth century.
• Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers (Vintage, 2003).  Historical novel about nineteenth-century emigrants to Canada. 
• Frances Itani, Deafening (Atlantic Monthly, 2003). A young deaf woman and her lover during WWI.
• M. Nancy Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and Her Books for Children (Oxford, 1974).  A study and two facsimiles.  Mrs. Sherwood is best known today for History of the Fairchild Family. 
• Donald F. Shea, The English Ranke: John Lingard (Humanities, 1969).  Study of the nineteenth-century Catholic historian. 
• George Stubbs 1724-1806 (Yale/Tate, 1984).  Exhibition catalog devoted to England's best-known specialist in animal painting.