Stern, Edgar E.
The Peppermint Train: Journey to a German-Jewish Childhood
(Florida UP, 1992).
A pre-Holocaust refugee's return visit to Germany in the 1980s. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. ix + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A3566
Keywords: 0813011094, Nazi Germany, German, Jewish, Jews, antisemitism, child, childhood, Edgar E. Stern, autobiography, child, Holocaust
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
(Bantam, 2007).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A14200
Keywords: 0553804952, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, Iowa, Great Depression, women, women's autobiography, history, 30s, thirties
Price £10.50.
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Lawrence, Elizabeth.
A Home on My Hands:
(Book Guild, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 139pp. Order No. NSBK-A13299
Keywords: 0863327869, narrowboats, narrowboat, boats, canals, canal boats, rural, agriculture, agricultural, history, countryside, villages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, autobiography, autobiographies, women
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Miller, Hugh.
My Schools and Schoolmasters: the Story of My Education
(Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, Mitchell, rpt, 1889).
Hardback. Some rubbing to edges and corners, and soiling to page edges, otherwise a good copy. xi + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-A8603
Keywords: B0008A80KY, evangelical Christians, Christianity, religion, religious, evangelicalism, Cromarty, education, autobiographies, autobiography, history, life history, life histories, Scots, Scotland, Scottish, Hugh Miller, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, self improvement, memoirs, geology, geologists
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Nolan, Christopher.
Under the Eye of the Clock:
(Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1987).
Preface by John Carey. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A5070
Keywords: 0297790927, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, Christopher Nolan spastic, Dam-Burst of Dreams, brain damage
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Moss, Les.
Live and Learn: A Life and Struggle for Progress
(QueenSpark Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A12911
Keywords: 0904733068, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Les Moss, Queenspark
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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