Braddon, Russell.
Woman in Arms:
(Armada, 1956).
Paperback. Ex library but good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C6945
Keywords: 0006935184, Nancy Wake, women, woman, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, France, French, Europe, European, history, Second World War, World War II, World War Two, twentieth century, 20th, wars, warfare, French resistance, women and work, Paris
Price £4.00.
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Pitcher, Harvey.
When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution
(Readers Union, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled/rubbed dustwrapper. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C8392
Keywords: governess, women's work, teaching, Russia, October Revolution, Miss Emmie, women travellers, Bolsheviks, revolution, Russian Revolution
Price £8.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Goldstein, Donald M. & Dillon, Katherine V.
Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer
(Brassey's, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. 321pp. Order No. NSBK-C4692
Keywords: 157488199X, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, flight, aeronautical, history, flying, flights, air travel, women's history, woman, heroine, women and work, adventuress, Amelia Earhart, biography, biographies, pioneers, pioneer, American, America, United States, USA
Price £6.00.
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Nightingale, Florence.
Letters and Reflections:
(Arthur James, 1996).
Paperback. Fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C2437
Keywords: 0853053537, Florence Nightingale, letters, Crimea, Crimean War, nursing, medicine, women travellers, nurse, women's work, women and work, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £5.99.
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Sambrook, Pamela.
Laundry Bygones:
(Shire, 1983).
Paperback. Vert good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15500
Keywords: 0852636482, laundry, washing, clothes, women's work, women, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £3.00.
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
Price £9.00.
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Huggett, Frank E.
Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times
(Book Club, 1977).
Many illustrations. Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C1822
Keywords: 0719533813, domestic service, servant, service, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, history, England, English, Victorian
Price £8.95.
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
Price £7.00.
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Kramer, Ann.
Land Girls and their Impact:
(Remember When, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xxiii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C14607
Keywords: 1844680290, Ann Kramer, land girls, landgirls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Second World War, World War II, Two, women and work, working women, Lady Gertrude Denman, Women's Timber Corps, WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, employment, jobs, pay, oral history, courting, courtship, Women's Land Army, Women's Forestry Corps, women's history
Price £24.00.
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