The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Rowland Hill, Village Dialogues between Farmer Littleworth, Thomas Newman, Rev. Mr. Lovegood and Others, 3 vols. in 1, 24th ed., rev. (Thomas Tegg, 1824).  Moral dialogues on everything from sectarianism to marriage; initially published in 1810, and very successful.  Read Charles Spurgeon's assessment of Hill here.  (eBay)
  • Alex Miller, The Ancestor Game (Graywolf, 1993).    Complex interrelationships of Chinese immigrants in Australia prior to WWII.  (Donation)
  • Joanna Baillie, The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, ed. Jennifer Breen (Manchester, 2000).  Selection of the long-lived Baillie's non-dramatic verse. There's a slightly outdated bibliography available.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Caroline Franklin, ed., The Longman Anthology of Gothic Verse (Longman, 2010).  Horrors! (No, really, horrors.)   The Anglo-American Gothic tradition in poetry (with a quick look-in from Goethe) from the eighteenth century onward.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Joanne Parker, England's Darling: The Victorian Cult of Alfred the Great (Manchester, 2007).  History of the Victorian obsession with the king, idealized as a great Christian warrior and ruler.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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