This Week's Acquisitions

• Sarah Wilkinson, Priory of St. Clair: Or, Spectre of the Murdered Nun.  A Gothic Tale (Zittaw, 2004).  Reprint of this 1811 chapbook by the ultra-prolific Wilkinson.  Sex, convents, monks, painful death--the usual.  (Zittaw)
• Franz J. Potter, ed., The Monster Made by Man; Or, The Punishment of Presumption (Zittaw, 2006).  Chapbook version of Frankenstein, first published in 1825.  (Zittaw)
• Lisa Joy Pruitt, A Looking-Glass for Ladies: American Protestant Women and the Orient in the Nineteenth Century (Mercer, 2005).  Examines how American women became influential in missionary movements in India and elsewhere, emphasizing their belief in the possibility of universal Christian sisterhood (and motherhood).  (Amazon [secondhand])
• Edward Adams, Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill (Virginia, 2011).  Nineteenth-century historiography and the tension between epic tropes (especially war) and liberal political ideals.  (Amazon)