This Week's Acquisitions
- L. E. Usher, Then Came October (Harbour, 2008). In the early 1930s, a young woman discovers the diaries of her mother, Edith Carew. (Amazon [secondhand])
- John Darnton, The Darwin Conspiracy (Knopf, 2005). Modern-day researchers (who seem somewhat akin to the lead couple in Possession, just with science instead of literary criticism) uncover deep dark secrets behind the publication of Darwin's theory of evolution. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Melissa Pritchard, Selene of the Spirits (Ontario Review, 1998). Historical novel about a Victorian medium, loosely based on the life of real-life medium Florence Cook. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Count de Montalembert, Catholic Interests in the Nineteenth Century (Charles Dolman, 1852). Assesses the current state of Catholicism in mid-Victorian Europe and analyzes its prospects. More about the Count here. (eBay)
- William J. Astore, Observing God: Thomas Dick, Evangelicalism, and Popular Science in Victorian Britain and America (Ashgate, 2001). Studies Dick's efforts to stem the tide of scientism through Christianized science. (Amazon [secondhand])