Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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Tomalin, Claire.
The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft:
(Pelican, rpt, 1977).
Paperback. Pages browned, spine creased, edges worn. A good working copy. 379pp. Order No. NSBK-C9425
Keywords: 0140219722, Mary Wollstonecraft, feminism, feminist, feminists, Claire Tomalin, history, women's history, eighteeenth century, biography, biographies, 18th century, women writer, woman writer, women writers, William Godwin, centuries
Price £4.25.
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Thistlethwaite, June.
Cumbrian Women Remember: Lake District Life in the Early 1900s
(Thyme Press, rpt., 2000).
Paperback. Very good with name written on flyleaf. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C15346
Keywords: 0953169502, Cuymbria, Cumbrian, Lake District, woman, women,history, oral history
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Creighton, Louise.
Life and Letters of Mandell Creighton:
(Longmans, Green, 1913).
Hardback. Some white blotching to cloth, corners worn, otherwise good. xii + 534pp. Order No. NSBK-A5558
Keywords: B00087RYFO, lives, letters, biography, biographies, correspondence, Victorian, nineteenth century, history, historians, historian, Mandell Creighton, Louise Creighton, the Creightons, Britain, British, England, English, English Historical Review, bishops, bishop, religion, religious, clerical, Embleton, Oxford, rural deans, Worcester Canonry, Cambridge
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Buckley, V. C.
The Good Life: Between the Two World Wars with a Candid Camera
(Morrow Quill, 1979).
Illustrated. Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A2689
Keywords: 0688085032, camera, photography, interwar, photograph, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £10.00.
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Cobbett, William.
Advice to Young Men: and (incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, A Bachelor, A Lover, A Husband, A Father, A Citizen, or a Subject
(Ward, Lock and Co, ?).
With notes and a life of the author. Hardback. Red decorated boards worn and spine ends torn, internally good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13089
Keywords: William Cobbett, advice, men, males, masculinity, boys, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Dunbar, Janet.
The Early Victorian Woman: Some Aspects of her Life (1837-57)
(George G Harrap, 1953).
Hardback. Internally good, covers dull, stained and worn. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12604
Keywords: B0000CIGBP, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Debenham, Clare.
Life and Death in Higher Education: a Political and Social Analysis of British Colleges of Education
(Lutterworth, 2021).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 162pp. Order No. NSBK-A15636
Keywords: 9780718895495, education, teaching, history, teaching colleges, higher education, teacher shortages
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