This Week's Acquisitions
- Mrs. [Mary] Sewell, Poems and Ballads; with Memoir by E. Boyd-Bayly, 2 vols. in 1 (Jarrold & Sons, [1899]). Collection of Christian poems, mostly narrative, some on historical themes. Mrs. Sewell--not to be confused with the High Church novelist Elizabeth Missing Sewell--was a Quaker-turned-Anglican poet, now primarily known as the mother of Anna Sewell (of Black Beauty fame).
- Regina Maria Roche, Clermont: A Tale (Valancourt, 2005). Reprint of Roche's 1798 Gothic novel. More on Roche here and on Clermont here.
- William-Henry Ireland, Gondez the Monk: A Romance of the Thirteenth Century (Zittaw, 2005). Gothic-cum-historical novel about Robert the Bruce. Ireland, of course, is the famous forger.
- Paul Malmont, The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 2006). Pulp novelists on the trail of H. P. Lovecraft's death.
- Briege Duffaud, A Wreath Upon the Dead (Poolbeg, 1994). Northern Ireland and the Troubles since the nineteenth century.
- Marysa Demoor, Their Fair Share: Women, Power and Criticism in the Athenaeum, from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield (Ashgate, 2000). The role of (anonymous) women reviewers.
- Inga Bryden, Reinventing King Arthur: The Arthurian Legends in Victorian Culture (Ashgate, 2005). Most recent study of a perennially popular topic.