This Week's Acquisitions

  • Lucy Ellen Guernsey, Loveday's History.  A Tale of Many Changes (John F. Shaw, n.d.). UK reprint of Guernsey's historical novel about a young woman who lives through the English Reformation.  Part of a novel sequence devoted to English history, mostly in the early modern period. (eBay)
  • Roy Lewis, Cock of the Walk.  A Mid-Victorian Rumpus (Peter Owen, 1995).  A short historical novel about the "papal aggression," copiously illustrated with contemporary caricatures.  (Amazon [secondhand])