The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Sylvia Townsend Warner, The Corner That Held Them (Virago, 1988).  Historical novel set in a fourteenth-century convent.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Elizabeth von Arnim, Vera (Washington Square, 1995).  Romance turns somewhat unsettling in Jane Eyre-ish fashion.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Michael Campbell, Lord Dismiss Us (Phoenix, 1984).  Goings-on at an English public school.  (Donation from colleague)
  • Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall On Your Knees (Touchstone,  2002).  Canadian family saga, involving various dark secrets, betrayals, lust, that sort of thing.  (Donation from colleague)
  • William R. McKelvy, The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880 (Virginia, 2007).  Studies how literary reading became, in effect, "religious."  (Amazon [secondhand])
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