Thursday's Notes

Isobel Grundy reviews Dena Goodman's Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters for the THES, 29 October.

Alexis de Tocqueville,"Letters from America," Hudson Review, Autumn, publishes a selection from the letters he sent home when he visited the United States in 1831/32. See also: Paula Deitz,"Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters From America, Huffington Post, 28 October.

James Buzard reviews Paul Young's Globalization and the Great Exhibition: The Victorian New World Order for the THES, 29 October.

Willy Maley reviews Tristram Hunt's The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels for the THES, 29 October.