(Actually, two weeks of acquisitions: the mailroom just reopened on Tuesday.)
- John Banville, Shroud (Knopf, 2003). An aged professor (based on Paul de Man) with a stolen identity finds himself threatened with exposure.
- Adam Thorpe, Pieces of Light (Carroll & Graf, 2000). Elderly man haunted by his childhood in Africa.
- Luise Rinser, Abelard's Love (Nebraska, 1998). The son of Abelard and Heloise seeks the truth; originally published in Germany.
- Annie Proulx, Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (Scribner, 2004). Short story collection; follow-up to Close Range.
- Judith Knelman, Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press (Toronto, 1998). Studies how Victorian journalists dealt with sensational female criminals. Capital Punishment U.K. lists women hanged from 1800-1868 and 1868-1955; see also this brief Guardian article on Margaret Higgins and Catherine Flanagan. On (alleged?) poisoner Florence Maybrick, see a 1913 newspaper article and LawBuzz.
- D. J. Deane, Two Noble Lives: John Wicliffe, the Morning Star of the Reformation; Martin Luther, the Reformer (S. W. Partridge & Co., n.d.). Two short didactic biographies.
- W. H. Beckett, The English Reformation of the Sixteenth Century: With Chapters on Monastic England and the Wycliffite Reformation (RTS, 1890). Ecclesiastical history.
- David W. Bebbington, The Dominance of Evangelicalism: The Age of Spurgeon and Moody (InterVarsity, 2005). The Anglo-American evangelical scene during the Victorian period, including the major revivalists.
- Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life (Yale, 1998). Prize-winning biography. There's a contemporary account of Cranmer's execution at English History; the Medieval Source Book has a letter from Cranmer on Anne Boleyn's coronation.
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