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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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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Thompson, Flora.
Lark Rise to Candleford:
(Penguin, rpt., 1984).
Introduced by H. J. Massingham. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 537pp. Order No. NSBK-C10112
Keywords: 0140036725, Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, Victorian, rural, country, countryside, women writers, women's writing, lives, life histories, life history, woman writer
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Lewis, Jon E.
True World War I Stories: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War
(Robinson, rpt, 1999).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+. 425pp. Order No. NSBK-A14176
Keywords: 1841190950, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, autobiographies, autobiography, memories, Somme, Loos, Ypres, Western Front
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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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Lambert, Sharon.
Irish Women in Lancashire, 1922-1960: their Story
(Centre for North West Regional Studies, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. xii + 129pp. Order No. NSBK-C4253
Keywords: 1862201102, Ireland, Irish, women, Irish women, history, Britain, British, England, English, immigration, immigrant, immigrants, emigration, emigrants, emigrant, Lancashire, oral history, social history, life stories, autobiography, autobiographies, Sharon Lambert, Dublin, Wigan, Preston, Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster University, Catholic, Catholics, Catholicism, female, national identity, family, families, North West, Centre for North West Regional Studies
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Morley, Ken.
Knowledge is Power: My Life on Coronation Street
(Blake Publishing, 1995).
With Charles Yates. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 252pp. Order No. NSBK-A10326
Keywords: 1857821521, Coronation Street, Ken Morley, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, self history, self histories, lives, life history, life histories, TV, television, actors, acting, Coronation Street, Granada, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
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Douglass, Frederick.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass:
(Dover, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 76pp. Order No. NSBK-A6204
Keywords: 0486284999, Frederick Douglass, autobiography, memoir, Tuckahoe, slave, slavery, United States, USA, history, America, nineteenth century, Maryland, Massachusetts, abolition, women's rights, black rights, anti-slavery, freedom, emancipation, slaves
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Lamont, Thomas W.
My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century
(Heinemann, 1945).
Illustrated. Hardback. Bright green cloth, good. xviii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A2597
Keywords: B000HC0KBU, childhood, autobiography, parsonage, United States, America, Methodism, Catskill Mountains, presidential campaigns
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