Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
Price £72.00.
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
Price £9.00.
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
Price £20.00.
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Horsfield, Margaret.
Biting the Dust: The Joys of Housework
(Fourth Estate, 1998).
Paperback. Fading to spine, light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C6189
Keywords: 1857026756, domestic, domesticity, women and work, women's work, woman, women's history, housewives, housewife, housewifery, homemaking, homemaker, houses, home, household, chores, housemaids, Mrs Beeton, cleanliness, cleaning, Hannah Cullwick, Cleanliness Institute, cleaners, flappers, dusting
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Nicholson, Mavis.
What Did You Do in the War, Mummy?: Women in World War II
(Chatto & Windus, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-A8523
Keywords: 0701133562, war, Second World War, women, history, women's, World War II, Home Front, twentieth century, domestic front, land army, land girls, oral history, WAAF, wartime, wartime brides, widows, war effort, woman, female, social history
Price £8.00.
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Beaumont, Caitriona.
Housewives and Citizens: Domesticity and the Women's Movement in England, 1928-64
(MUP, 2013).
Hardback. Very good+. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C15420
Keywords: 9780719086076, domesticity, women's movement, citizenship, women's organisations, inter-war, history, inter war, Mother's Union, Women's Institute
Price £29.95.
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Rose, Mark H.
Cities of Light and Heat: Domesticating Gas and Electricity in Urban America
(Pennsylvania UP, 1995).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A12352
Keywords: 0271013494, city, cities, towns, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, gas, electricity, urban, power, technology
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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Shorter, E.
The Making of the Modern Family:
(Collins, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 369pp. Order No. NSBK-C436
Keywords: 0002115425, family, domesticity, motherhood, fatherhood, parenthood, families, history, kinship, kin
Price £6.00.
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Peterson, M. Jeanne.
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen:
(Indiana UP, 1989).
Paperback. Spine browned, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. xii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-C4229
Keywords: 0253205093, family, love, work, Victorian, women, gentlewomen, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, upper-middle-classes, class, private sphere, public sphere, separate spheres, leisure, leisured classes, home, domesticity, gender, wife, wives, M. Jeanne Peterson, marriage, marriages, wedlock
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