The Little Professor

This Week's Last Month's Acquisitions

(Some books were awaiting me at the office...)

  • Robert Haynes Cave, In the Days of Good Queen Bess: The Narrative of Sir Adrian Trafford, Knight, of Trafford Place, in the County of Suffolk (Burns & Oates, 1897).  Historical novel about Elizabethan recusants; as you might gather, the title is on the ironic side.   Despite the Catholic publisher, the author (c. 1830-1900) was an Anglican clergyman.  (Alibris)
  • [Gertrude Parsons], Thornberry Abbey, a Tale of the Times (1846; Edward Dunigan and Brother, n.d.).  Reprint of a UK novel.  A Catholic satire on the Church of England; sometimes printed with the subtitle "A Tale of the Established Church."   Mrs. Parsons wrote a number of other religious novels, as well as a biography of Ignatius Loyola. (eBay)
  • Suzanne Berne, The Ghost at the Table (Shannon Ravenel, 2006).  Family feuding, new and old.  (Barnes & Noble)
  • Claire Messud, When the World Was Steady (Vintage, 2007).  Reprint of Messud's first novel about mismatched sisters.  (Borders)
  • Gaynor Arnold, Girl in a Blue Dress (Tindal Street, 2008).  Neo-Victorian novel about the neglected wife of a famous novelist who suspiciously resembles Charles Dickens. (Amazon)
  • Ronald McKerrow, Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students (Oxford, 1964).  Classic work in the field.  (Gift from colleague)
  • Philip Gaskell, A New Introduction to Bibliography (Oxford, 1972).  Another well-known introductory text.  (Gift from colleague)
  • Cora Kaplan, Victoriana: Histories, Fictions, Criticisms (Columbia, 2007).  Study of neo-Victorian fiction, film, etc.  (eBay)
  • Ellen Rosenman and Claudia Klaver, eds., Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Ohio, 2008).  Essay collection devoted to "other" forms of Victorian motherhood; I'm reviewing this for Choice.  (Review copy)
  • Sally Mitchell, Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer (Virginia, 2004).  A biography and critical study.  (eBay)
  • The Christian World Magazine and Family Visitor (2 vols., 1877 and 1884).  Congregationalist magazine edited by novelist Emma Jane Worboise. (eBay)
  • Henry Ansgar Kelly, Satan: A Biography (Cambridge, 2006).  How we came to think of Satan as the Number One Bad Guy.  (eBay)
  • Peter Wosh, Spreading the Word: The Bible Business in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell, 1994).  Publishing and selling Bibles in the US.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • John Wolffe, Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain (British Academy, 2001).  The religious and cultural functions of nationwide mourning.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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