This Week's Acquisitions
- Agnes M. Stewart, Margaret Roper; Or, the Chancellor and His Daughter (P. J. Kenedy, 1894). Reprint of Stewart's Catholic historical novel about the fates of Thomas More and his favorite daughter. (eBay)
- Valentine du Cayla de Craon, Thomas More, an Historical Romance, trans. Mrs. M. C. Monroe (Catholic Publishing Co., 1879). Translation of the Princess de Craon's Catholic historical novel about, er, the fate of Thomas More. (Apparently, I had a theme this week.) Originally published in the early 1830s as Thomas Morus. (eBay)
- Fionnuala Dillane, Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (CUP, 2013). Study of the first phase of Eliot's career as author and editor for the Westminster Review and Blackwood's. Thomas More is not involved. (Amazon)