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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Ferra, Bartomeu.
Chopin and George Sand in the Cartuja de Valldemosa:
(Palma de Majorca, 1932).
English Translation by James Webb. Paperback. Covers mottled and a little tatty, otherwise good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-A11210
Keywords: B000HC1N9S, Chopin, George Dand, Cartuja de Valldemosa, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Dauber, Roslyn and Cain, Melinda L.
Women and Technological Changes in Developing Countries:
(AAAS Selected Symposium, 1981).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, a little splashing to front board, otherwise good. xxii + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C8446
Keywords: 0891587918, work, women, woman, women's history, twentieth century, 20th, Third World, developing countries, feminism, feminists, food, industry, industrial, Tangaye, Maya, Chan Kom, demographic, demography, mothers, development
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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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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
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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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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
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Pillai, Vijayan K. and Shannon Lyle W., eds.
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
(Berg, 1995).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 552pp. Order No. NSBK-A7030
Keywords: 1859730027, politics, political, development, developmental, economic, economy, economics, twentieth century, 20th, AIDs, Central American, North America, United States, Third World, Fourth World, colonialism, colonialists, colonies, colony, social, ecosystems
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Hobman, D. L.
Go Spin You Jade: Studies in the Emancipation of Women
(Watts, 1957).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C8343
Keywords: B0000CJV3I, history of women, women's history, women's rights, emancipation, Queen Elizabeth 1st, Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Charke, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Elstob, Daniel Defoe, Mary Astell, Mrs Macaulay, Charlotte Lennox, the Blue Stockings, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Caroline Norton, Harriet Martineau, Josephine Butler, Contagious Disease Acts, eductaion, religion, church, medicine, Sophia Jex-Blake, Olive Schreiner, Mrs Fawcett, NUWSS, Pankhurst, Eleanor Rathbone
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Bradley, Helen.
And Miss Carter Wore Pink: Scenes from an Edwardian Childhood
(Joanthan Cape, rpt., 1971).
Hardback. Some browning to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A10528
Keywords: 0224005812, Helen Bradley, Miss Carter, Northern, art, artists, paintings, painters, Britain, British, England, English, history, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th
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