Thompson, Thea.
Edwardian Childhoods:
(RKP, reprint, 1982).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers and a little waviness to a few pages, otherwise good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A6236
Keywords: 0710093357, child, children, Edwardian, infancy, family, Britain, British, England, English, history, childhood, reminiscences, memories, memory, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, class, povert, poor, paupers, working class, working classes, lower orders
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Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
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Aikin, Dr, & Barbauld, Mrs.
Evenings at Home: Consisting of a Variety of Miscellaneous Pieces, for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth
(Ward, Lock, rpt, no date).
Illustrated by the brothers Dalziel. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, corners rubbed & spine ends slightly split, some white staining at base of boards, otherwise good. viii + 456pp. Order No. NSBK-C349
Keywords: B001KG3N20, children's literature, amusement, instruction, Britain, British, England, English, history, Juvenile Budget Opened, Evenings at Home, Warrington, North West England, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Dr Aikin, education, educational, children's stories, Dissent, nonconformity, nonconformists, antiquarian
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Williams, A Susan.
Women and Childbirth in the Twentieth Century: A History of the National Birthday Trust Fund, 1928-93
(Sutton Publishing, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 331pp. Order No. NSBK-A7566
Keywords: 075091209X, women, childbirth, maternity, maternity, children, child, National Birthday Trust Fund, births, women, women's history, woman, twentieth, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, pregnancy, mortality, gender, health, fertility, motherhood
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Humphries, Stephen.
Hooligans or Rebels: An Oral History of Working-Class Childhood and Youth, 1889-1939
(Basil Blackwell, 1981).
Paperback. Library bookplate to inner cover, some marginal annotation, creasing to covers & a little waviness to rear pages - otherwise good. viii + 279pp. Order No. NSBK-A5924
Keywords: 0631132864, oral, oral hisotory, working class, working-class, working classes, children, child, childhood, youth, hooligans, rebels, Stephen Humphries, teenagers, teenage gangs, vandalism, anarchy, oral tradition, spoken, twentieth century, education
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Meade, L.T..
The Darling of the School:
(W. & R. Chambers, no date).
With 6 illustrations, of which one is loose. Hardback. Some rather heavy white blotching / fading to soiled cloth, a good reading copy only. Some splitting to spine internally at back. 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A8605
Keywords: B000J2M4IK, girls, girls' school stories, history, education, girlhood, childhood, children, Britain, British, England, English, schools, schooling, L.T. Meade, fiction
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Plunket, Irene L.
Sally Cocksure: a School Story
(OUP, rpt, 1929).
Girls' school story. Hardback. Slight foxing, otherwise very good with illustrations by G. Browne. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C1162
Keywords: Sally Cocksure, school story, children's writing, girls' story, Britain, British, England, English, history, school, schooling
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Shelley, Mary.
Maurice: or the Fisher's Cot
(Viking, 1998).
Intro. by Claire Tomalin. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xiv + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C2308
Keywords: 0670881724, Mary Shelley, Shelley, Fisher's Cot, Maurice, woman writer, women writers, literature, children's writing, Romanticism
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, rpt., 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper, some ink notation on inner back board only. xi + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A617
Keywords: 0862997763, Victorian, country, countryside, rural, childhood, child, children, Britain, England, British, English, history
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