Leeming, Glenda.
Who's Who in Jane Austen and the Brontes:
(Elm Tree, 1974).
Foreword by Phyllis Bentley. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, otherwise good in slightly wavy, faded dustwrapper. 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A14578
Keywords: 0241024692, Jane Austen, Brontes, literature, women writers, history, Howarth, novels, characters, Charlotte, Emily, Anne Bronte
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Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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Glyde, John.
Suffolk in the Nineteenth Century: Physical, Social, Moral, Religious, and Industrial
(London, 1851).
Hardback. Embossed blue cloth covers soiled and worn, some tearing to spine ends, otherwise a good working copy. x + 386pp. Order No. NSBK-A11780
Keywords: B000HC5LUK, Suffolk, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, physical, social, moral, religious, industrial
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Tranter, N. L.
Population Since the Industrial Revolution: The Case of England and Wales
(Croom Helm, 1973).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, minor pencil annotation, otherwise good in edge worn dustwrapper. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A8259
Keywords: 0856640123, population, people, industry, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, Britain, British, England, English, Wales, Welsh
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Seddon, Laura.
British Women Composers and Instrumental Chamber Music: in the Early Twentieth Century
(Ashgate, 2013).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased but very good dustwrapper. xvii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-C15701
Keywords: 9781409439455, composing, composers, women, female, chamber music, twentieth century, musicians, Briitsh, Britain
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Hill, William Thomson.
Octavia Hill: Pioneer of the National Trust and Housing Reformer
(Hutchinson, 1956).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C1243
Keywords: B0007IVFJU, housing, National Trust, housing reform, history, Octavia Hill, biographies, poverty, open spaces, London, Hampstead Heath
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Peake, Mervyn.
Titus Alone:
(Penguin, rpt., 1980).
Paperback. Spine creased and worn, otherwise good. 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A11901
Keywords: 0140030913, Mervyn Peake, Titus alone, twentieth century, 20th, satire, Gormenghast triology, Groan, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Stevenson, D. Alan.
The World's Lighthouses before 1820:
(OUP, 1959).
Large format. Hardback. Green cloth. Ex-library but very good copy with minimal library stamps in rather soiled dustwrapper, chipped at edges and with a small piece torn out of top edge. xxiv + 310pp. Order No. NSBK-A14228
Keywords: B0000CKDV2, lighthouses, lighthouse, sea, oceans, safety, marine, maritime, navigation, engineering, history, towers, harbours, architecture, architectural
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Harris, C.C.
The Family and Industrial Society:
(George Allen and Unwin, 2nd impress., 1984).
Studies in Sociology:13. Paperback. Spine creased, some ink annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise good. xi + 260pp. Order No. NSBK-A9401
Keywords: 004301156X, family, families, industrial, industry, sociology, kinship, child, children, household, statistics, marriage, Britain, British, England, English, history, population, demography
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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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