Waterson, Merlin.
The Servants' Hall: a Domestic History of Erddig
(Pantheon, 1980).
Foreword by the Marquess of Anglesey. Illustrated. Hardback. Very good in foxed, slightly torn / chipped dustwrapper. xxiii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A2768
Keywords: 039450903X, Erddig, Yorkes, Wrexham, servants, squire, the Marches, Britain, British, England, English, history, Wales, Welsh, history
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Lawrence, Dianne.
Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840 - 1910
(MUP, 2012).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C15576
Keywords: 9780719097362, empire, women, imperialism, British Empire, colonialism
Price £16.50.
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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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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
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Hardback. Very good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C14460
Keywords: 071904460X, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Summerfield, Penny.
Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives:
(MUP, 1998).
Paperback. Fly leaf clipped, spine creased, minor pencil annotation, with newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C2122
Keywords: 0719044618, wartime, women's history, women's work, World War II, Second World War, World War Two, social history, oral history, popular culture, war effort, home front, domestic front, gender relations, gender roles, cultural representations, films, magazines, media, Women's Land Army, Women's Auxiliary Air Force, WAAF, Women's Royal Navy Service, WRNS
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Sandford, Mrs Henry.
Home Work and Duties:
(W. & R. Chambers, 1885).
Girls' Reading-Book. Hardback. Some wear to edges & fraying to spine ends. Red / black cloth with gilt lettering slightly darkened, otherwise a good copy. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C13123
Keywords: Victorian, 1880s, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, duties, responsibilities, duty, responsibility, social history, women's history, Mrs Henry Sandford, women's education, girls, girlhood, domestic economy, food, clothing, sewing, needlework, knitting, ventilation, cleaning, washing, health, sickness, Britain, British, England, English, hygiene,
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Henny, E. and Byett, J. D.
Modern Home Laundrywork:
(J.M. Dent and Sons, rpt., 1948).
Illustrated with photographs and drawings of different types of laundry equipment, methods of folding items of clothing etc. Hardback. Good. x + 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A10644
Keywords: women, women's history, homes, Britain, British, homekeeping, housekeeping, housewifery, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, laundry, washing, stains, cotton, linen, fabrics, cleaning, rayon, nylon, family wash, domestic, domesticity, laundrywork, reagents, equipment, water, soap, women's work, textiles, housewife, housewives, clothes, clothing
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Mace, Jane.
Playing with Time: Mothers and the Meaning of Literacy
(UCL Press, 1998).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xiii + 185pp. Order No. NSBK-C8834
Keywords: 1857288912, mothers, motherhood, women, children, child, literacy, education, educational, maternal, reading, writing, grandmothers, domestic, adult literacy, family, families
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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