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])