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])