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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Braithwaite, Brian and Walsh, Noelle, eds.
Home Sweet Home: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Ebury Press, 1992).
Hardback. Good+ in torn and soiled dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A12608
Keywords: 0091774888, homes, houses, Good Housekeeping, magazines, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, readers, Rebecca West, ldy Violet Bonham-Caretr, E.F. Benson, Vera Brittain, Evelyn Waugh
Price £12.00.
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Birkett, Dea.
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
(Basil Blackwell, rpt, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 300pp. Order No. NSBK-C1183
Keywords: 0631156046, Victorian, women travellers, spinster, Mary Kingsley, travel, nineteenth century, travelers, spinsters, spinsterhood, history, Isabella Bird, Amelia Edwards, explorers
Price £9.00.
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Radner, Hilary.
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
(Routledge, 1995).
Paperback. With very minor pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise very good. xiv + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C12426
Keywords: 0415905400, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, pleasure, shopping, consumption, feminism, feminists
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Backhouse, Janet.
The Lindisfarne Gospels:
(Phaidon, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11935
Keywords: 0714824615, Linisfarne, Holy Island, Lindisfarne Gospels, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, church, churches, Northumbria, illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, St Cuthbert, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Lapping, Brian and Radice, Giles.
More Power to the People: Young Fabian Essays on Democracy in Britain
(Longmans, rpt., 1968).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A12928
Keywords: B0000CO5MI, Fabians, essays, socialism, socialists, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £6.00.
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Spink, Henry Hawkes.
The Gunpowder Plot And Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes
(Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, 1902).
Being a Proof, With Moral Certitude, of the Authorship of the Document Together With Some Account of the Whole Thirteen Gunpowder Conspirators, Including Guy Fawkes. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers. A little cracking internally at spine. Cloth dark, with wear to edges & fraying /a little splitting externally at spine. Else good. xxxvi + 412pp. Order No. NSBK-A14860
Keywords: B000ZGAJIW, Guy Fawkes, Gunplowder Plot, conspiracy, history, 17th century, seventeenth century, government, politics, Yorkshire, treason, early modern
Price £27.00.
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Carlyle, Thomas.
Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Tenfelsdrockh
(Chapman and Hall, 1893).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some foxing internally, otherwise good. iv + 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A13081
Keywords: Herr Tenfelsdrockh, Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus
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Faludi, Susan.
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women
(Chatto and Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 592pp. Order No. NSBK-C9721
Keywords: 0701146435, women, woman, twentieth century, 20th, feminism, feminists, women's studies, post-feminism, journalism, journalists, reporters, Susan Faludi
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Kanter, Hannah, Lefanu, Sarah et al, eds.
Sweeping Statements: Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, 1981 - 83
(Women's Press, 1984).
Paperback. Good. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-C15768
Keywords: 9780704339309, literature, women's liberation movement, feminist movement, feminism
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