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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Bayley, John.
Iris and her Friends: A Memoir of Memory and Desire
(W. W. Norton, 2000).
Hardback. Very good+. 275pp. Order No. NSBK-C13735
Keywords: 039304856X, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19thris Murdoch, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, novels, novelists
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Swindells, Julia, ed.
The Uses Of Autobiography:
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Gender and Society: Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present. Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. ix + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A15614
Keywords: 9780748403653, autobiography, self history, life history, life histories, lives, memoirs, Ruth Symes, Ruth A. Symes, Julia Swindells, women, Africa, USA, Middle East, France, New Zealand, Britain, autobiographers, life writing, Catharine Cappe
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Darling, Isabella F.
Songs from Silence:
(Alexander Gardner, 2nd edition, 1913).
Hardback. Light scuffing and fading to blue boards, some light foxing to pages not affecting legibility, otherwise a good+ copy. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A10180
Keywords: B0019RL7QO, Isabella Darling, women writers, woman writer, songs, writing, poetry, poems, poets, history, women's history, British, Britain, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, literature, literary, Lanarkshire, stane, singing, singers, music, verses, sickness
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Reilly, Catherine, ed.
Winged Words: Victorian Women's Poetry and Verse
(Enitharmon, 1994).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xix + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C4128
Keywords: 1870612248, Victorian, women, history, literature, poems, poetry, verse, ninetenth century, anthology, writing, literary, Britain, British, England, English, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Bronte, Christina Rossetti, poets
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Hall, Jane.
Learn to Read With Phonics DVD: Vol 1: Letters and Words
(Good Times Entertainment, 1991).
Vol 1: Letters and Words. Jane Hall and Tom Kroutil. DVD. DVD. Good condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-A15858
Keywords: 0018713512888, children, learning to read, phonics, Good Times Entertainment, Jane Hall, Tom Kroutil, child, education
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Holroyd, Michael.
The Genius of Shaw: A Symposium
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A12593
Keywords: 0340241462, George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, writers, writing, literature, literary
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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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Legg, Rodney.
Literary Dorset:
(Dorset Publishing Company, 1990).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A11906
Keywords: 0948699094, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, literary Dorset, county, counties, Thomas Hardy, Barnes, Powyses
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Pankhurst, Emmeline.
My Own Story:
(Vintage, 2015).
Paperback. Nice clean copy in very good condition. xiii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C15723
Keywords: 9781784870409, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, suffrage, Rights for Women, Women's Movement, female emancipation, women's rights, women's history, woman's history, autobiography, autobiographies, life histories, life history, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, radicals, radicalism, Women's Social and Political Union, munition workers, militancy, votes, voting, Christabel, Sylvia, Adela, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, woman suffrage
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