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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Monsarrat, Ann.
An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811-1863
(Cassell, 1980).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 461pp. Order No. NSBK-A12202
Keywords: 0304305561, Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Hough, Richard.
Nelson: A Biography
(Park Lane Press, 1980).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11160
Keywords: 0905746457, Lord Nelson, admirals, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, eighteenth century, 18th, 19th, nineteenth, warfare, Horace, Horatio Nelson, Cape St Vincent, Cape Trafalgar, Nile, Copenhagen, sailors, Emma Hamilton
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Guinness, Alec.
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
(Hamish Hamilton, 1996).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. x + 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9009
Keywords: 0241136679, actors, acor, Alec Guiness, autobiography, life, life history, lives, life histories, theatre, stage, twentieth century, Britain, British, history, England, English
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Poulson, Christine.
William Morris:
(Quantum, 2002).
Paperback. Fine. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A7151
Keywords: 186160548X, William Morris, nineteenth century, 19th, designs, art, artists, architecture, paintings, textiles, wallpapers, poetry, furniture, patterns, biographical, biography, biographies, lives, life history, life histories, arts and crafts, Arts and Crafts Movement
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Owen, Frank.
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times
(Hutchinson, 1954).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in heavily worn and torn dustwrapper. 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A13053
Keywords: B0000CJ0TW, Lloyd George, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Packe, Michael St John.
The Life of John Stuart Mill:
(Secker and Warburg, 1954).
With a preface by Professor F. A. Hayek. Hardback. Boards slightly worn, otherwise good. xvi + 567pp. Order No. NSBK-A13055
Keywords: B000KXEFNA, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, John Stuart Mill
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McMullen, Roy.
Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler
(Macmillan, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in torn, chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A9676
Keywords: 0333141164, art, artists, biography, biographies, biographical, life histories, life history, J. A. M. Whistler, Whistler, painters, paintings, lives, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, USA, United States, Europe, European
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Dayus, Kathleen.
All My Days:
(Virago, rpt., 1993).
The third book in the trilogy. Paperback. Light edge wear to covers, otherwise good. 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C7182
Keywords: 0860680762, Kathleen Dayus, All My Days, Birmingham, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life histories, life history, lives, memoirs, Second World War, World War Two, 2, II, twentieth century, 20th, women writers, woman writer, women's writing
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Beer, Gillian, ed.
Charles Darwin and T. H. Huxley: Autobiographies
(OUP, 1983).
Paperback. Corners slightly worn, otherwise good+. xxvi + 123pp. Order No. NSBK-A10148
Keywords: 0192851314, Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer, autobiography, autobiographies, Victorians, nineteenth century, lives, life history, life histories, science, history of science. T. H. Huxley, memoirs
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