This Week's Acquisitions
- Emma Marshall, Under Salisbury Spire, in the Days of George Herbert: The Recollections of Magdalene Wydville (Seeley, 1894). Fictional seventeenth-century memoir featuring, as you might gather, George Herbert. One of a number of Marshall's novels set around cathedrals.
- Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook (Penguin, 2005). New edition of Martineau's domestic novel. More on Martineau here and here; the first volume of her Autobiography is at the VWWP.
- Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin, 1991). A tale of two sisters, from the mid-Victorian age to the twentieth century. Brief biography of Bennett and several e-texts courtesy of Literary Heritage: West Midlands.
- Adam Thorpe, The Rules of Perspective (Henry Holt, 2006). Art and violence intertwine during the final days of WWII.
- Graham Greene, The Complete Short Stories (Penguin, 2005). Includes some stories never before collected.
- Claire Messud, The Emperor's Children (Knopf, 2006). Would-be culture mavens in 2001.
- Michael Cox, The Meaning of Night: A Confession (Norton, 2006). Neo-Victorian thriller. (Oh, dear: am I hearing the adjective "Dickensian" floating about?)
- Rosemary Erickson Johnsen, Contemporary Feminist Historical Crime Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). I'm reviewing this for Choice.
- Mary McKerrow, Mary Brunton: The Forgotten Scottish Novelist (Orcadian, 2001). Brunton was a popular novelist in the early nineteenth century. Jane Austen's comments plus e-texts here; biographical sketch by Ruth Facer at Chawton House.
- Brian Stanley, ed., Christian Missions and the Enlightenment (Eerdmans, 2001). The Scottish Enlightenment's effect on the theory and practice of Protestant missions.
- Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall..., 16 vols. (James Nisbet). A nearly-complete set of these lectures, which were delivered annually between November and February.