This Week's Acquisitions

(There were no acquisitions last week! Obviously, that...could not stand.)

• F. Anstey, The Statement of Stella Maberly, ed. Peter Merchant (Valancourt, 2017).  A woman discovers that her supposedly dead friend is not so dead, with horrific results.  (Amazon)
• Lesley Krueger, Mad Richard (ECW, 2017).  A historical novel positing a meet-up between the fairy painter Richard Dadd, confined to Bethlem after murdering his father, and Charlotte Bronte.  (Lift Bridge)
• Robert Edric, In Zodiac Light (Isis, 2008).  Historical novel about WWI poet Ivor Gurney and his experiences with schizophrenia after returning to England.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Valerie Sanders, The Tragi-Comedy of Victorian Fatherhood (Cambridge, 2009).  Analyzes the difficulties of being a Victorian father through studies of such parents as Kingsley, the Arnolds, etc.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Irena Backus and Philip Benedict, Calvin and His Influence, 1509-2009 (Oxford, 2011).  Collection devoted to the problems of making sense of John Calvin in various Protestant traditions, primarily in Europe.  (Amazon)
• Daran Curragh, The Protestant Community in Ulster, 1825-1845 (Four Courts, 2014).  Protestant anxieties as they experienced multiple demographic, financial, and religious challenges at mid-century.  (Amazon)