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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Hough, Graham.
The Last Romantics:
(Duckworth, rpt., 1979).
Paperback. Good. xix + 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12059
Keywords: 0715617753, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, illiam Morris, W. B. Yeats, Rossetti, Walter Pater
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Caslin, Samantha.
Save the Womanhood!: Vice, Urban Immorality and Social Control in Liverpool, c. 1900 - 1976
(Liverpool UP, 2018).
Hardback. Fine condition. 234pp. Order No. NSBK-C15662
Keywords: 9781786941251, Liverpool, women, Merseyside, vice, prostitution, prostitutes, social history, morality, urban, Irish women, girls, Ireland, immorality
Price £38.00.
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Stopes, Marie.
Wise Parenthood: the Treatise on Birth Control for Married People
(G.P. Putnam, 7th edit., 1921).
Hardback. Cloth slightly marked and edges worn, a good working copy. 60pp. Order No. NSBK-C77
Keywords: B0014FFD70, Marie Stopes, parenthood, parent, birth control, marriage, contraception, reproduction, sexuality, women's history, family, motherhood
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Davies, Martin, ed.
Columbus in Italy: an Italian Versification of the Letter on the Discovery of the New World. With facsimiles of the Italian and Latin Editions of 1493
(British Library, 1991).
Hardback. Card covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 56pp. Order No. NSBK-A6874
Keywords: 0712302638, New World, discovery of New World, Christopher Columbus, fifteenth century, American, America, Americas, voyages of exploration, medieval, mediaeval, Middle Ages, early modern, history, Spain, Spanish, Giuliano Dati, poems, poetry, poets, Italian, Italy, Rome, British Library
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Horn, Pamela.
The Rise and Fall of the Victorian Servant:
(Gill and Macmillan, 1975).
Hardback. With minor pencil annotation, and newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15682
Keywords: 717107469, Victorian, servants, nineteenth century, women, history, work, domesticity, employment, class, domestics, maids, maidservants, Britain, British, England, English, domestic service, housework, below stairs
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Palmer, George Herbert.
The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer:
(Houghton Mifflin, 1908).
Hardback. Fly leaf and title pages loose, otherwise a good copy in dark green/black leather binding. 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A9929
Keywords: B000JQOUBK, Alice Freeman Palmer, George Herbert Palmer, American, America, USA, United States, twentieth century, women's history, Alicia, Freeman Palmer, Victorian, nineteenth century, New York, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiography, education, educationalists, teaching, teachers, colleges, Wellseley, lives, life histories, life history
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Burke, Peter.
Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe:
(Scolar Press, revised rpt, 1994).
Paperback. Soiling to page edges, otherwise good. xxvii + 377pp. Order No. NSBK-B4326
Keywords: 1859281028, early modern, Europe, history, popular culture, popular beliefs, broadsides, chap-books, social history, society, carnivals, Peter Burke, mentalities, rituals, social behaviour, rites, cultural
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Whitney, Janet.
Geraldine S. Cadbury, 1865-1941:
(George G. Harrap, 1948).
Hardback. A good copy in a worn and torn dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-C1011
Keywords: B0006D94T4, Geraldine S. Cadbury, chocolate, factory, factories, food, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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John, Angela V.
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life
(Tempus, rpt, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-D15438
Keywords: 9780752440286, Elizabeth Robins, acting, theatre, stage, women' s suffrage, suffragettes, Edwardian, women's emancipation, actresses, actress, Ibsen, novelists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, USA, America, American, entertainment, biography
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