This Week's Acquisitions
- Hubert Haddad, Rochester Knockings: A Novel of the Fox Sisters, trans. Jennifer Grotz (Open Letter, 2015). Historical novel about the Fox sisters and the birth of the Spiritualist movement, right down the road from yours truly. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Harry Tait, The Ballad of Sawney Bain: A Novel (Polygon, 1990). In early modern Scotland, a woman spins a tale about her experiences with the cannibal Sawney Bain (or Bean). (Amazon [secondhand])
- Linda H. Peterson, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women's Writing (Cambridge, 2015). Major authors, genres, negotiating the world of publishing, etc. I'm reviewing this for Choice. (Review copy)
- Patricia Demers, The World of Hannah More (Kentucky, 1996). Analyzes all aspects of More's publishing career in its religious and historical contexts. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Mark Bills, ed., Dickens and the Artists (Yale, 2012). Influences of various works on Dickens; works inspired by Dickens; paintings of Dickens. (Amazon [secondhand])