The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

(Lots of freebies this week, mostly donations from a friend who switched fields.)

  • C. J. [Mason], Alice Sherwin: A Tale of the Days of Sir Thomas More (Sadlier, 1880s?).  US reprint of a UK Catholic historical novel (probably by a convert), first published in 1857.  The novel appears to have been somewhat more in demand in the USA than in the UK; it was in print over here as late as 1911.  It was also translated into German and French.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Judith Sargent Murray, Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray, ed. Sharon M. Harris (Oxford, 1995).  Includes a novella, letters, etc.  See the biographical sketch at Unitarian Universalist Heritage or visit her home.   (Gift)
  • Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore (Edward Arnold, 1975).  Part of the Regents Restoration Drama series.  There's a Victorian biographical sketch of Rowe online.  (Gift)
  • Nathaniel Lee, The Rival Queens (University of Nebraska, 1970).  Additional Regents Restoration Drama.  (Gift)
  • ---, Lucius Junius Brutus (Edward Arnold, 1968).  Still more Regents Restoration Drama.  (Gift)
  • D. M. Thomas, Charlotte Bronte Revelations (Duckworth, 2000).  Woman treks to Martinique, pens fake sequel.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Robert Crawford, Scotland's Books: A History of Scottish Literature (Oxford, 2009).  A new literary history.  (Review copy)
  • Emer Nolan, Catholic Emancipations: Irish Fiction from Thomas Moore to James Joyce (Syracuse, 2007).  Permutations of realism in Irish Catholic fiction.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • James Wilson Foster, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel (Cambridge, 2006).  Exactly what the label says.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Lady Eleanor Davies, Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies, ed. Esther S. Cope (Oxford, 1995).  Tracts by the controversial seventeenth-century author.   More on Lady Eleanor at the Folger Library.   (Gift)
  • Anne Askew, Examinations of Anne Askew, ed. Elaine V. Beilin (Oxford, 1996).  The martyr's testimony under interrogation.  There's a poem and a biographical sketch at the RPO; here's a woodcut of her execution.  (Gift)
  • Rachel Speght, The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght, ed. Barbara Kiefer Lewalski (Oxford, 1996).  Christian poetry and feminist tracts.   There's a biography of Speght at Sunshine for Women. (Gift)
  • Dominic Janes, Victorian Reformation: The Fight Over Idolatry in the Church of England, 1840-1860 (Oxford, 2009).  Anglican attacks on purported instances of image workship, etc.  (My own working book title has been Victorian Reformations...which, I'm guessing, is about to go by the wayside.)  (OUP)
  • Wesley A. Kort, "Take, Read": Scripture, Textuality, and Cultural Practice (Pennsylvania State UP, 1996).  Developments in hermeneutics and attitudes to Scripture.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Ursula Henriques, Religious Toleration in England, 1787-1833 (RKP, 1961).  Classic historical study.  (Antiqbooks)
  • Lady Arbella Stuart, The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart, ed. Sara Jayne Steen (Oxford, 1994).  Scholarly edition of Lady Arbella's surviving correspondence.  Lady Arbella, a cousin of Elizabeth I (and therefore a potential heir), ended her life in the Tower of London.  She continued to be the object of fascination in the 19th c.; see, for example, Felicia Hemans' "Arabella Stuart." (Gift)
  • Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney (Oxford, 1958).  Standard older biography.  (Gift)
  • Nancy Lopatin-Lummis, ed., Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part I, 4 vols. (Pickering & Chatto, 2006).  Facsimiles of contemporary pamphlets, articles, and book chapters about Palmerston, Disraeli, and Gladstone.  An object lesson in why you shouldn't list this sort of thing on eBay--I picked it  up for $9.99! (eBay)
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