This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Widow Green and Her Three Nieces (S. W. Partridge, 1859). Didactic novella about poverty, service, charitable behavior, etc. Ellis is best known as the author of the Women, Wives, Mothers, and Daughters of England books. (eBay)
- Mme. Augustus Craven, Fleurange, trans. M. P. T. (Catholic Publication Society, 1872). An orphaned French girl travels to Germany and, after many trials, finds love. More on Mme. [Pauline] Craven here. (eBay)
- Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf, 2013). A middle-aged, frustrated artist involves herself with a new family and their problems. (Amazon)