This Week's Last Month's Acquisitions
- Mary Shelley, The Original Frankenstein, ed. Charles Robinson (Vintage, 2009). Frankenstein with and without P. B. Shelley's editorial interventions. (Barnes and Noble)
- Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency (Anchor, 2010). The lives of two neighboring families intersect over a period of decades, with results ranging from comical to deadly. (Borders)
- Andrea Levy, The Long Song (FSG, 2010). Historical novel set in Jamaica as slavery comes to an end. (Amazon)
- Reginald Hill, The Woodcutter (HarperCollins, 2010). A man seeks vengeance on those who successfully framed him. (Amazon UK)
- Lillian Nattel, The River Midnight (Scribner, 1999). The interwoven lives of several Jewish women in 1890s Poland. (eBay)
- James Raven, The Business of Books: Booksellers and the English Book Trade, 1450-1850 (Yale, 2007). How did books make it to customers? (Amazon [secondhand])
- Diane Sadoff, Victorian Vogue: British Novels on Screen (Minnesota, 2009). Neo-Victorianism and film adaptations. (Amazon [secondhand])
- Elizabeth Einberg, ed., Manners and Morals: Hogarth and British Painting, 1700-1760 (Tate, 1987). Exhibition catalog, examining Hogarth's influence on portraiture, satire, and so forth. (eBay)
- Hilary Morgan and Peter Nahum, eds., Burne-Jones, the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Century, 2 vols. in 1 (Leicester, 1989). Catalog and plates, obviously emphasizing the work of Edward Burne-Jones. (eBay)
- John Fletcher, The Difficulties of Protestantism (Keating and Brooke, 1829). Catholic controversial work; more on Fletcher here. Signed "Catherine Throckmorton," quite possibly Lady Catherine Throckmorton. (eBay)
- The Bulwark, or Reformation Journal, vols. 3 and 4 (1853-54). Two volumes in one of this Scottish anti-Catholic periodical. (eBay)
- Robert Ellison, ed., The New History of the Sermon: The Nineteenth Century (Brill, 2010). Sermons and sermonizers of all varieties, including *cough* English anti-Catholic sermons *cough*. (Contributor's copy)
- J. M. I. Klaver, Geology and Religious Sentiment: The Effects of Geological Discoveries on English Society and Literature between 1829 and 1859 (Brill, 1997). Study of the scientific hot topic in Victorian religious circles (as historians of science have repeatedly pointed out, geology generated far more heated debates than Darwin's theory of evolution). (Brill)
- D. G. Paz, The Priesthoods and Apostasies of Pierce Connelly: A Study of Victorian Conversion and Anticatholicism (Edwin Mellen, 1986). Biographical study of one of the Victorian era's most eccentric celebrity apostates. Connelly dramatically converted to Catholicism, then dramatically de-converted and went on an anti-Catholic rampage. Connelly's wife Cornelia, meanwhile, founded the Society of the Holy Child Jesus--and refused to return to Connelly when he resumed being a Protestant. (Amazon [secondhand])