This Week's Acquisitions

  • Christoph von Schmid, Genevieve: A Tale of Antiquity; Showing the Wonderful Ways of Providence in the Protection of Innocence (Catholic Publication Society, 1873).  Translation of German children's novelist von Schmid's novel about Genevieve de Brabant.  (eBay)
  • Alice Hoffman, The Marriage of Opposites (Simon & Schuster, 2016).  Historical novel set in an early nineteenth-century Jewish community in the West Indies, with the protagonist being Rachel, mother of Camille Pissarro.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Alan Haig, The Victorian Clergy (Croom Helm, 1984).  Historical overview of, er, the Victorian clergy in an age of professionalization.  (Amazon [secondhand])