This Week's Acquisitions

(It's that procrastination season! Clearly, I should post this list of books.)

• Silas Hocking, Crookleigh: A Village Story (Warne, 1892).  Various romances and misfortunes, especially amongst the clerical set (both Dissenters and C of E), focusing in particular on a saintly preacher and his personal and professional troubles.  By one of the prolific Hocking siblings.  (eBay)
• Tom Winnifrith, ed., The Poems of Charlotte Bronte (Blackwell, 1984).  The standard edition of CB's verse.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Michael Ondaatje, Warlight (Knopf, 2018).  During WWII, two abandoned children try to puzzle out the nature of their upbringing and their parents' disappearance (and mother's reappearance).  (Amazon)
• Claire Harman, Charlotte Bronte (Knopf, 2016).  The most recent biography.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Tony Kushner and Nadia Valman, eds., Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews' (Ashgate, 2004).  Relations between Jews (including figurative Jews) and others in a wide range of historical and national contexts.  (Amazon)