The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • "Our Father Who Art in Heaven."  A Story Illustrative of the Lord's Prayer (Nelson, 1859).  Brief story about the experiences of a family after the husband is sent abroad to war and eventually dies.  (eBay)
  • The Countess of Glosswood.  A Tale (Burns and Oates, 1870).  A Catholic historical novel, originally written in French, set in seventeenth-century Scotland.  (eBay)
  • Rosa Nouchette Carey, Only the Governess (F. M. Lupton, n.d.).  Late-Victorian romance novel about a woman who runs away from her husband.  More on the prolific Carey here.  (eBay)
  • [E. C. Agnew], Rome and the Abbey: A Tale of Conscience (Sadlier, 1852).  Unsuccessful sequel to the bestselling Geraldine, following the earlier novel's heroine after she becomes a nun.  (eBay)
  • David Lodge, A Man of Parts (Penguin, 2011).  Late in life, H. G. Wells contemplates what he has and has not achieved.  (Lift Bridge)
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