This Week's Acquisitions
- Eliza Parsons, The Mysterious Warning, ed. Karen Morton (Valancourt, 2007). Reprint of Parsons' 1796 Gothic novel about the adventures of a young man on the run from his eeeevil brother. (Amazon)
- Patrick Senecal, Aliss (Alire, 2005). Really, really dark reworking of Alice in Wonderland, featuring drugs, murder, sex--you know, the usual. In French (has never been translated). (Amazon [secondhand])
- April Bernard, Miss Fuller (Steerforth, 2012). Margaret Fuller Ossoli returns home from abroad. (Lift Bridge)
- Susan E. Colon, Victorian Parables (Continuum, 2012). Analyzes how Biblical parables work in texts by authors from a variety of religious perspectives. (Amazon)
- Stephen Bann et al., Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey (National Gallery, 2010). Exhibition catalog devoted to one of the nineteenth century's most famous history paintings, Paul Delaroche's The Execution of Lady Jane Grey. (Amazon [secondhand])