This Week's (Belated) Acquisitions

• Stanley G. Crawford, Some Instructions to My Wife (Dalkey Archive, 1985).  Reprint of Crawford's parody of Victorian marriage manuals.  (eBay)
• L. H. Myers, The Root and the Flower (NYRB, 2001).  Reprint of a series of novels set in sixteenth-century India.  (eBay)
• Caroline Levine and Mark W. Turner, eds., From Author to Text: Re-Reading George Eliot's Romola (Ashgate, 1998).  Critical essays on what is arguably Eliot's least-read novel.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Mary Jean Corbett, Allegories of Union in Irish and English Writing, 1790-1870: Politics, History, and the Family from Edgeworth to Arnold (Cambridge, 2000).  Figures for the Anglo-Irish relationship in fiction and nonfiction.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Pat Garrett and Dennis Butts, ed., From the Dairyman's Daughter to Worrals of the Waaf (Lutterworth, 2006).  Critical essays on the history of the RTS and Lutterworth.  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Callum Brown, The Death of Christian Britain (Routledge, 2001).  The history of secularization in Britain; argues that the process really began in the twentieth century,  not in the nineteenth.  (Amazon [secondhand])