Wrigley, C.J., ed.
The Working Classes in the Victorian Age: Debates on the Issue from 19th Century Critical Journals
(Gregg International, 1973).
4 volumes: Vol 1: Political Economy and Whig Reforms 1815-1937; Vol II Urban Conditions, 1839-1848; Vol III Urban Conditions, 1848-1868; Vol IV Rural Conditions, 1815-1870. Hardbacks. Very good in slightly chipped, slightly worn dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A928
Keywords: 0576532568, working class, Victorian, class, rural, social reform, countryside, Chris Wrigley, history
Price £60.00.
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
Price £8.00.
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Malmgreen, Gail.
Neither Bread nor Roses: Utopian Feminists and the English Working Class, 1800-1850
(John L. Noyce, 1978).
Studies in Labour History. Pamphlet. Covers slightly soiled and browned, otherwise good. 43pp. Order No. NSBK-C12787
Keywords: B001B4DC36, Gail Malmgreen, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, utopias, class, working class, working-class, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, pamphlets, stored with pamphlets
Price £14.00.
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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
Price £11.50.
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Soulsby, Lucy H. M.
The Use of Leisure: I. Some Thoughts on the Education of Girls. II. Our Duty to Our Neighbour
(Longmans, Green, 1900).
Booklet. Paperback. Small format, hand-held. Paper covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 54pp. Order No. NSBK-A14994
Keywords: B0017ZN49G, stored with booklets, education, girls, girlhood, leisure, booklets, booklet, antiquarian, history, femininity, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Edwardian, training
Price £22.00.
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Collet, Miss.
Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls:
(HMSO, 1894).
Although there is some tear damage to the right-hand side of the front cover, the book has been nicely repaired. There's a new spine, the covers have been neatly rebacked and there are new endpapers. The only other faults are a small tear (2cm) to right-edge of title page and some Roman numerals in ink are written at the base of the front cover. Otherwise, this is a good+, tight copy. Paperback. Some tear damage to front cover, but nicely repaired. New spine, covers rebacked, new endpapers, though small tear to right edge of title page. Good+, a tight copy. vii + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C15323
Keywords: B0013IULPC, Miss Collet, women, girls, work, women's history, Britain, British, history, antiquarian, employment
Price £55.00.
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Heron, Liz.
Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties
(Virago, rpt, 1985).
Paperback. With newspaper review pasted inside front cover, back cover slightly browned, otherwise a good copy. viii + 248pp. Order No. NSBK-C2389
Keywords: 0860685969, fifties, growing up, education, history, girls, women, post-war, welfare state, feminism, society, social, careers, childhood, child, girlhood
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Holcombe, Lee.
Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850 - 1914
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation and with newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise good+ in chipped / faded / rubbed dustwrapper. x + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C10502
Keywords: 9780715364116, women and work, women's history, working women, feminism, Victorian, middle class, Britain, England, British, English, history, Wales, Welsh
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Stanley, Jo, ed.
To Make Ends Meet: Women Over 60 Write About Their Working Lives - Memories Collected by the Older Women's Project
(Older Women's Project, 1989).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers and small crease to lower corner, otherwise very good. 148pp. Order No. NSBK-A15868
Keywords: 9780951480007, Older Women's Project, oral history, autobiographies, working women, work, women's history, Caribbean, Burma, India, employment
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Weisser, Henry.
British Working-Class Movements and Europe, 1815-48:
(MUP, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in slightly faded dustwrapper. viii + 226pp. Order No. NSBK-A8268
Keywords: 0719006082, Britain, British, England, English, working class, working-class, Europe, European, movements, radical, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, Chartists, Cobbett, William Cobbett, Robert Owen, Owenism, history
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