This Week's Acquisitions

• Elizabeth M. Stewart, The King and the Cloister; Or, Legends of the Dissolution (D. Stewart, 1872).  Catholic short stories set during the reign of Henry VIII.  (AbeBooks)
• Charles Edmund Maurice, Richard de Lacy.  A Tale of the Later Lollards (British Library, 2011).  Facsimile reprint of a historical novel featuring Reginald Pecock and Jack Cade, among others.  Maurice was a historian and son of theologian F. D. Maurice.   My impression of the hard copy version of this British Library reprint series (the one originally promised for Kindle): seems solidly bound, good paper, a slightly awkward size (rather bigger than a standard trade paperback), some loss to the print (as one might expect from a print of a scan of the original).  (Amazon)
• Michele Roberts, Wild Girl (Random House, 1991).  Example of the "lost gospel" subgenre of the historical novel, this time featuring the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.  (Amazon [secondhand])