This Week's Acquisitions
- Elizabeth M. Stewart, The King and the Cloister; Or, Legends of the Dissolution (D. Stewart, 1872). Catholic short stories set during the reign of Henry VIII. (AbeBooks)
- Charles Edmund Maurice, Richard de Lacy. A Tale of the Later Lollards (British Library, 2011). Facsimile reprint of a historical novel featuring Reginald Pecock and Jack Cade, among others. Maurice was a historian and son of theologian F. D. Maurice. My impression of the hard copy version of this British Library reprint series (the one originally promised for Kindle): seems solidly bound, good paper, a slightly awkward size (rather bigger than a standard trade paperback), some loss to the print (as one might expect from a print of a scan of the original). (Amazon)
- Michele Roberts, Wild Girl (Random House, 1991). Example of the "lost gospel" subgenre of the historical novel, this time featuring the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. (Amazon [secondhand])