This Week's Acquisitions
- Margaret Harkness, A City Girl, ed. Deborah Mutch (Victorian Secrets, 2015). Reprint of Harkness' 1887 novel about a working-class woman's adulterous romance with a middle-class man with Radical leanings. (Amazon)
- Jane West, A Gossip's Story, ed. Devoney Looser, Melinda O'Connell, and Caitlin Kelly (Valancourt, 2015). Reprint of West's 1796 social comedy about two sisters and their romantic fortunes; a probable inspiration for Sense and Sensibility. (Amazon)
- David Nicol, The Fundamentals of New Caledonia (Luath, 2003). Combination time-travel/historical novel about the seventeenth-century attempt to form the colony of New Caledonia, with unpleasant results. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Ayelet Ben-Yishai, Common Precedents: The Presentness of the Past in Victorian Law and Fiction (Oxford, 2015). Analyzes the intersection between legal and historical consciousness in works by Collins, Eliot, and Trollope. (Amazon)