Tomalin, Claire.
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
(Penguin, rpt., 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xx + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-C10026
Keywords: 0140159231, actresses, actress, actors, drama, theatres, theatrical, Mrs Jordan, women's history, plays, stage, William IV, Dora Jordan, eighteenth, nineteenth, century, courts, royalty, monarchs, monarchy, kings, Britain, British, England, English, biography, biographies, woman, biographical, lives, life history, life histories
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Monsarrat, Ann.
An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811-1863
(Cassell, 1980).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 461pp. Order No. NSBK-A12202
Keywords: 0304305561, Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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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
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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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Wilson, David Alec and Macarthur, David Wilson.
Carlyle in Old Age 1865-1881:
(Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1934).
Hardback. Covers soiled and top of spine slightly torn, internally good. vi + 488pp. Order No. NSBK-A11865
Keywords: B001OW4ODC, Thomas Carlyle, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, old age
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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
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Tomkinson, E. M.
Sarah Robinson, Agnes Weston and Mrs Meredith: World's Workers
(Cassell, 1887).
Hardback. Boards rubbed espec at edges, otherwise good+ with decorated boards. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A15534
Keywords: B0008A3WA2, biography, biographies, self-history, self-histories, Sarah Robinson, Agnes Weston, Mrs Meredith, Britain, British, England, English
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Sadat, Jehan.
A Woman of Egypt:
(Simon Schuster, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in creased dustwrapper. 478pp. Order No. NSBK-C5430
Keywords: 0671540713, Anwar Sadat, Jehan Sadat, Cairo, Egypt, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, woman writer, women writers, marriage, politics, Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Sadat, feminists, feminism, women's history, Muslim, Islam, Israel, Victory Day
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Hobhouse, Christopher.
Fox:
(John Murray, rpt., 1964).
With a biographical introduction by Harold Nicolson. Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise good+. xxiv + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-A10382
Keywords: B0000CM13H, Christopher Hobhouse, biography, biographical, lives, life histories, life history, biographies, Charles James Fox, politicians, politics, statesmen, statesman, eighteenth, 18th, century
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Partington, Jim.
The Two-Up and Two-Downer (With a Taste for Honey): the Crowded Life of a Lancashire Lad
(Fabians Publishers, 1972).
Autobiography. Leftist reminiscences of self-made Lancashire man, born 1908, dedicated to Lord Brockway of ILP. "I attended meetings in Bradford [where] he showed me the Political Path I should follow. Although I have devoted much of my life to the acquisition of material possessions, I have never deviated from his Philosophy". Hardback. Very good in slightly worn and slightly chipped dustwrapper. xiv + 257pp. Order No. NSBK-A1550
Keywords: B000HBVSLC, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Lancashire, lads, boys, homes, houses, terraces, twentieth century, 20th, Jim Partington, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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