Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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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
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Gregson, Nicky & Lowe, Michelle.
Servicing the Middle Classes: Class, Gender and Waged Domestic Labour in Contemporary Britain
(Routledge, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. viii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-A1431
Keywords: 0415085314, domestic labour, class, gender, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, wages, nanny, nannies, servants, servant, maid servants, maid servants, cleaners, cleaner, home helps, gender relations, class, sociology, women, women and work
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Creighton, John.
Cheshire: a Portrait in Words and Pictures
(Sigma Press, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A14071
Keywords: 1850580928, Cheshire, illustrations, photographs, history, towns, mills, stately homes
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
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Bailey, Victor.
Delinquency and Citizenship: Reclaiming the Young Offender, 1914-48
(Clarendon, OUP, 1987).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, slight soiling to page edges, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. viii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A13168
Keywords: 0198226640, delinquency, citizenship, Victor Bailey, crime, history, criminals, criminal, twentieth century, 20th century, Britain, British, England, English, young offenders, welfare, probation, juvenile court, Home Office, penal reform, policy, justice
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Gardiner, Juliet.
D-Day: Those Who Were There
(Collins & Brown, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5218
Keywords: 1855852047, D-Day, twentieth century, fighting, World War II, Second World War, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Allies, Allied, Normandy beaches, Channel, Second Front, forces, military operations
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Simpson, M. A. and Lloyd, T. H., eds.
Middle Class Housing in Britain:
(David and Charles, Archon Books, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 217pp. Order No. NSBK-A14055
Keywords: B000VZXQGY, middle class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, housing, classes, class system, houses, homes, architecture, city, cities, towns, social conditions, Exeter, Glasgow, Hampstead, Royal Leamington Spa, Nottingham, Sheffield
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
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