This Week's Acquisitions

• Emma Leslie, Hilda; Or, the Golden Age (RTS, c. 1877).  Historical novel about the early church in Britain.  (eBay)
• Peter Ackroyd, The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein (Talese, 2009).  Percy Bysshe Shelley hangs out with Victor Frankenstein.  (Lift Bridge)
• A. S. Byatt, The Children's Book (Knopf, 2009). The fortunes of a late-Victorian and Edwardian family.  (BOMC)
• Marguerite Yourcenar, Two Lives and a Dream, trans. Walter Kaiser (FSG, 1987).  Three novellas set in early modern Europe.  (Phoenix Books)
• Julia O'Faolain, Women in the Wall (Carroll & Graf, 1988).  An anchorite's adventures (as it were).  (Phoenix Books)
• Jim Reilly, Shadowtime: History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad, and  George Eliot (Routledge, 1994).  Influential monograph on late-Victorian realism.  (The Bookery)
• John Goodby et al., Irish Studies (Arnold, 2003).  An introductory reference guide.  (The Bookery)
• Church Association Tracts, six vols. (Church Association, 1901).  Collects three hundred (!) tracts published between 1865 and 1901 by this anti-Ritualist (and still extant) Church of England organization.  (eBay)

Comments

[Deb]

I read The Woman in the Wall in the late 1970s, so I'm guessing yours is a new edition. I remember it as being very interesting and spot on about the dynamics of a large group of women living together. (I was living in a girl's college dorm at the time, so perhaps that's why that aspect resonated with me.)