The latest Shuffelton item to cross my desk is quite the Victorian jewel. No, really. You should see the cover. In fact, here it is: Yes, it’s Ladies of the White House; or, In the Home of the Presidents: Being a Complete History of the Social and Domestic Lives of the Presidents from Washington to [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Smells Like the Perfume of Purity and Saintly Sweetness
Posted in Books of Note on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Oddly Precise
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I’m currently engaged in a long-term quest to acquire every single item in Frank Shuffelton’s epic Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him, 1826-1997. Frank Shuffelton, as some of you may already know, was a professor of English at the University of Rochester, compiler of the above bibliography as well as editing [...]