This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions
- Sophie Cottin, Elizabeth; Or, the Exiles of Siberia. A Tale Founded Upon Facts (John Sharpe, 1817). Early English translation of Cottin's 1806 novel about a young girl trying to rescue her father. (eBay)
- Emily Brodie, Jean Lindsay, the Vicar's Daughter (John F. Shaw, n.d.). A Scottish girl undergoes conversion, grows up, has the usual experiences, &c. (eBay)
- George Griffith, The Knights of the White Rose (John F. Shaw, n.d.). Christian adventure tale set in the seventeenth century, following the adventures of a Jacobite who eventually becomes loyal to William of Orange. (eBay)
- Essie Fox, The Last Days of Leda Gray (Orion, 2017). A journalist seeks the truth about a silent film star. (Amazon UK)
- Benjamin Poore, Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage: Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). Current transformations of the Great Detective. (Amazon)
- Per Faxneld, Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (Oxford, 2017). Attempts to engage with feminism and the New Woman via Satanism, the occult, theosophy, and so forth. I'm reviewing this for Comparative Literature Studies. (Review copy)
- Maura Farrelly, Anti-Catholicism in America, 1620-1860 (Cambridge, 2017). A new brief history covering the phenomenon from the colonial period to the lead-up to the Civil War. (Amazon)
- William Whyte, Unlocking the Church: The Lost Secrets of Victorian Sacred Space (Oxford, 2017). The theology of Victorian church architecture in its various forms. (Amazon)