This Week's Acquisitions

• C. L. Brightwell, Palissy the Huguenot Potter (RTS).  One of two Victorian historical novels about Bernard Palissy; the other is Anne Manning's The Provocations of Madame Palissy.  (eBay)
• Annie Proulx, Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (Scribner, 2008).  New collection.  (BOMC)
• Sabina Murray, Forgery (Grove, 2008).  Faked Greek antiquities + murder = identity crisis.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Isabel Colegate, The Summer of the Royal Visit (Penguin, 1992).  Queen Victoria's arrival in a well-known resort area is anticipated by a motley collection of residents, frauds, etc.  Colegate's best-known novel is The Shooting Party.  (eBay)
• Michele Roberts, The Mistressclass (Holt, 2003).  Brontes + academia + erotica + angst.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Julia Kavanagh, English Women of Letters: Biographical Sketches (Tauchnitz, 1862).  Actually, biographical-critical sketches of women novelists, by another novelist.  An important example of nineteenth-century writing on women's literature.  (eBay)
• Anna Maria Jones, Problem Novels: Victorian Fiction Theorizes the Sensational Self (Ohio, 2007).  Reading and the construction of nineteenth-century subjectivity.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• The Christian Wreath of Prose, Poetry, and Art (RTS, probably 1855 or 1856).  A Christian literary annual.  (eBay)
• The Churchman's Companion 32 (1862).  Church of England journal; I own a couple of later volumes as well.    (eBay)