This Week's Acquisitions

  • Barbara Hofland, Self-Denial.  A Tale (Strong and Brodhead, 1849).  US reprint of a short novel by the popular English didactic author.  Young woman exhibits her Christian fortitude by, you know.  (eBay)
  • Jean L. Watson, The Heiress of Ravensby: A Tale of Pre-Reformation Times (Gall & Inglis, c. 1890).  Historical novel set amongst the Waldensians.  (eBay)
  • T. C. Boyle, The Women: A Novel (Penguin, 2009).  Various women try to put up with Frank Lloyd Wright.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Katherine Binhammer, The Seduction Narrative in Britain, 1747-1800 (Cambridge, 2009).  Studies the popularity of, as it says, seduction narratives (innocent young ladies deceived by libertines).  (Amazon)
  • Rachel Fulton, From Judgment to Passion (Columbia, 2003).  Shifting devotional beliefs and practices in relationship to both Christ and Mary in the Middle Ages.  (Amazon [secondhand])