This Week's Acquisitions
- Emma Leslie, Hilda; Or, the Golden Age (RTS, c. 1877). Historical novel about the early church in Britain. (eBay)
- Peter Ackroyd, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (Talese, 2009). Percy Bysshe Shelley hangs out with Victor Frankenstein. (Lift Bridge)
- A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book (Knopf, 2009). The fortunes of a late-Victorian and Edwardian family. (BOMC)
- Marguerite Yourcenar, Two Lives and a Dream, trans. Walter Kaiser (FSG, 1987). Three novellas set in early modern Europe. (Phoenix Books)
- Julia O'Faolain, Women in the Wall (Carroll & Graf, 1988). An anchorite's adventures (as it were). (Phoenix Books)
- Jim Reilly, Shadowtime: History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad, and George Eliot (Routledge, 1994). Influential monograph on late-Victorian realism. (The Bookery)
- John Goodby et al., Irish Studies (Arnold, 2003). An introductory reference guide. (The Bookery)
- Church Association Tracts, six vols. (Church Association, 1901). Collects three hundred (!) tracts published between 1865 and 1901 by this anti-Ritualist (and still extant) Church of England organization. (eBay)