Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Huehns, G., ed.
Clarendon: Selections from the History of the Rebellion & the Life by Himself
(OUP, rpt, 1978).
Intro. by Hugh Trevor Roper. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xxx + 492pp. Order No. NSBK-Z3568
Keywords: B000SBNVSY, Hugh Trevor Roper, rebellion, English Civil War, Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon, Charles I, history, political philosophy, autobiography, revolution, William Laud, Oliver Cromwell, seventeenth century
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Squire, Rose E.
Thirty Years in the Public Service: An Industrial Retrospect
(Nisbet and Co., 1927).
With a foreword by Sir Edward Troup. Hardback. Good+ in worn and rubbed boards. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A15550
Keywords: Britain, Britishm history, Rose E. Squire, industry, industrial, autobiography, letters, self-history, autobiographical, memoir, public service, civil seervice factory inspectors, female factory inspectors, women's history, woman, women factory inspectors, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, B000865E84, industry, industrial
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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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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Raverat, Gwen.
Period Piece: a Cambridge Childhood
(Fab. & Fab., rpt, 1968).
Paperback. Some wear to bottom spine end, covers sun faded and creased at spine, page edges soiled, otherwise good. 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C990
Keywords: 571067425, Gwen Raverat, Period Piece, Cambridge, childhood, child, children, autobiography, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Carter, Mark Bonham and Pottle, Mark.
Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 461pp. Order No. NSBK-C12987
Keywords: 0297816497, Violet Bonham Carter, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, letters, diaries, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, diary, epistles, epistolary
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Mitchison, Naomi.
All Change Here: Girlhood and Marriage
(Bodley Head, 1975).
The 2nd part of her autobiography. HB. Ex lib, good in sl soiled dw with newspapers pasted in at end. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C716
Keywords: 0370104854, Naomi Mitchison, girlhood, marriage, autobiography, autobiographical, twentieth century,
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