Larcom, Lucy.
A New England Girlhood: Outlined from Memory
(Corner House, (1889) rpt., 1985).
Social Science Reprints. Hardback. Fine. 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C9499
Keywords: 0879280786, Lucy Larcom, autobiography, autobiographical, lives, autobiographies, self history, self history, New England, American, USA, United States, US, Victorian
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Stern, Edgar E.
The Peppermint Train: Journey to a German-Jewish Childhood
(Florida UP, 1992).
A pre-Holocaust refugee's return visit to Germany in the 1980s. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. ix + 221pp. Order No. NSBK-A3566
Keywords: 0813011094, Nazi Germany, German, Jewish, Jews, antisemitism, child, childhood, Edgar E. Stern, autobiography, child, Holocaust
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Scott, Philippa.
Lucky Me:
(Kenilworth Press, 1990).
Illustrated by more than 90 photographs. The book is an evocation of the early life of Philippa Scott (nee Talbot-Ponsonby's) - her childhood in South Africa, school, climbing holidays, her time in the Land Army in World War II and a spell in Yugoslavia during the Cold War. She married Peter Scott in Reykjavik in 1951. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-C5734
Keywords: 1872082114, Lucky Me, Philippa Scott, Philippa Talbot-Ponsonby, Land Army, Peter Scott, South Africa, World War Two, wars, Second World War, World War II, Britain, British, history, england, English, autobiography, autobiographical, memoirs, memoir, autobiographies, life history, life histories, women writers, Severn Wildfowl Trust, Slimbridge, Thjorsaver Expedition, Reykjavik
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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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Drysdale, Ann.
A Pig in a Passage:
(Robert Hale, 1997).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+. 155pp. Order No. NSBK-C10028
Keywords: 0709060777, Ann Drysdale, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life histories, life history, rural, agrarian, agriculture, North York Moors, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English
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John, Augustus.
Finishing Touches:
(Readers Union, 1966).
With black and white photographs. Edited and introduced by Daniel George. Hardback. Spine ends slightly soiled, otherwise good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A12128
Keywords: B0000CMCW9, Augustus John, Finishing Touches, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
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Allsop, Gladys.
Reminiscences: Reminiscences of a Manchester Woman
(Janice Owen, 1987).
Paperback. Top spine end damaged (torn and bumped), newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, a good working copy. 61pp. Order No. NSBK-C14871
Keywords: 0951240609, Manchester, North West, history, autobiographies, autobiography, social history, women, Gladys Allsop, Wythenshawe Park, May Day, Whit Monday
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Smith, Anne.
Women Remember: an Oral History
(Routledge, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4236
Keywords: 0415033306, women, oral history, history, memories, autobiography, autobiographies, memories, memory, life history, life histories, Britain, British, England, English, family, interview, interviews, twentieth century
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Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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