Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Willard, Frances E.
Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman
(Source Book Press, rpt, 1970).
Complete, unabridged republication of 1889 Chicago edition. Intro. by Hannah Whitall Smith. Hardback. Slight darkening / light marking to red boards, otherwise very good. xvi + 698pp. Order No. NSBK-C1593
Keywords: B0008C0JOM, Frances Willard, Hannah Whitall Smith, Hannah Smith, America, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, autobiography, history, Chicago, nineteenth century, women's history, women, autobiographies, Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU, W.C.T.U
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Lewis, Jane, ed.
Before the Vote Was Won: Arguments For and Against Women's Suffrage, 1864-1896
(RKP, 1987).
A collection of articles, papers and pamphlets tracing the arguments of the early suffragists. Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. viii + 497pp. Order No. NSBK-C4775
Keywords: 0710211015, woman, women, women's suffrage, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, Helen Taylor, Frances Power Cobbe, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, Lydia E. Becker, Helen Blackburn, women's movement, women's rights, Helen Bright Clark, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon
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George, Henry.
Social Problems:
(Kegan, Paul, Trench, 1884).
Hardback. Title page loose, some pgs uncut, one page torn (legibility not affected), otherwise good. viii + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-A4358
Keywords: social problems, social conditions, nineteenth century, USA, American, United States of America, labour, labor, social conditions, slavery, slaves, class, slave
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth: Passing Thoughts; Falsehood and Truth
(Baker & Scribner, 1846).
The works "Passing Thoughts" & "Falsehood and Truth" only, by Charlotte Elizabeth (Tonna). Very scarce. Contains (mysteriously) one extraneous page - from "Conformity", another of Elizabeth's works which is not included. Hardback. Small, with pieces missing from the gilt-decorated spine, corners worn, some light foxing, otherwise good, tight. 105; x + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-C5103
Keywords: B0008B8N6Y, Charlotte Elizabeth, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, history, women writers, woman, women's literature, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, religion, religious, works, writings, purity, sentiment, morality, female
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Checkland, S. G.
The Rise of Industrial Society in England, 1815-1885:
(Longman, 5th impress., 1971).
Social and Economic History of England Series. General Editor, Asa Briggs. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good. xiv + 471pp. Order No. NSBK-A5681
Keywords: 0582482399, England, English, history, Britain, British, industrial, industry, society, Victorian, nineteenth century, Regency, labor, labour, working class, working classes, urban
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Exwood, Maurice and Lehmann, H. L., eds.
The Journal of William Shellinks' Travels in England, 1661-1663:
(Royal Historical Society, 1993).
Camden Fifth Series, Volume I. Translated from the Dutch. Hardback. Very good. 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A13452
Keywords: 0861931351, Dutch, Netherland, seventeenth century, travel, traveller, traveler, William Shellinks, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, journals, diaries
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Wheatley, Vera.
The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau:
(Secker & Warburg, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a good working copy in chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 421pp. Order No. NSBK-C608
Keywords: B0006D6W9Y, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Harriet Martineau, deaf, deafness
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Aitken-Swan, Jean.
Widows in Australia: A Survey of the Economic and Social Condition of Widows with Dependent Children
(Council of Social Service of NS Wales, 1962).
Paperback. A little marking/soiling to card covers, otherwise a good copy. x + 148pp. Order No. NSBK-C7054
Keywords: B0007JIO2K, twentieth century, 20th, history, Australia, Australian, Australasian, women, women's history, woman, female, widows, children, economics, economy, widowhood, widow
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Borrow, George.
The Romany Rye:
(Thomas Nelson and Sons, n.d.).
Hardback. A little light marking to bright green cloth, otherwise good+. iv + 480pp. Order No. NSBK-A9141
Keywords: B000I70JJW, George Borrow, the Romany Rye, novels, novelists, writers, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, literature, literary, fiction
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