This Week's Acquisitions
- S. J. Fitzgerald, Wilfred Hedley: Or, How Teetotalism Came to Ellensmere (T. Woolmer, 1888). A proselytizer for "total abstinence" comes to a small manufacturing town and, of course, brings everyone to virtue via temperance. (eBay)
- Mary E. Coleridge, The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor: with Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Heather Braun (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2018). New collection that includes Coleridge's novel about a balked romance. (Amazon)
- Mrs. Sherwood, The History of the Fairchild Family (Garland, 1977). Facsimile reprint of the 1818 first edition. (eBay)
- Robert Aickman, Compulsory Games (NYRB, 2018). Anthology of Aickman's "strange stories." (Amazon)
- Michele Roberts, The Walworth Beauty (Bloomsbury, 2017). Parallel-plot historical novel set in 1851 and 2011, in which the lives of two characters intersect in a small house. (Amazon)
- Charlotte and Emily Bronte, The Belgian Essays, ed. and trans. Sue Lonoff (Yale, 1996). Collects the Bronte sisters' devoirs written for Constantin Heger in 1842-43. (Amazon [secondhand])