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])