This Week's Acquisitions

E. L. Voynich, The Gadfly (Holt, 1897). Late-Victorian left-wing Risorgimento tale with "novel of doubt" overtones. Young idealist Catholic discovers that he's the illegitimate child of a priest, goes on to a second life as a radical satirist. Eventually became a huge bestseller in...Russia. (Amazon [secondhand])
William Godwin, Mandeville, ed. Tilottama Rajan (Broadview, 2015). New edition of Godwin's historical novel set during the English Civil War. (I previously owned another edition that met an ignominous end.) (Amazon)
E. H. Dering, Freville Chase, 2 vols. in 1, 2nd ed. (Washbourne, 1908). Reprint of Dering's 1880 novel, a sequel to Sherborne. Involves various acts of skulduggery and, of course, death. (eBay)
Octave Mirbeau, Sebastien Roch, trans. Nicoletta Simborowski (Dedalus, 2000). New translation of Mirbeau's 1890 novel about the fate of a boy sent to a Jesuit school. (eBay)
Geoffrey Farrington, The Revenants (Dedalus, 2003). New edition of this neo-Victorian vampire novel, narrated by the vampire in question. (Amazon [secondhand])
Nikki Lee Manos and Meri-Jane Rochelson, eds., New Approaches to British Fiction of the 1890s (St. Martin's, 1994). New Women, decadence, empire, sex, etc. (Amazon [secondhand])
Mildred Davis Harding, Air-Bird in the Water: The Life and Works of Pearl Craigie (John Oliver Hobbes) (Fairleigh Dickinson, 1996). A long biography of the short-lived late-Victorian Catholic novelist. (Amazon [secondhand])