Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
Price £24.00.
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Hamilton, Janet.
Poems, Sketches & Essays:
(James Maclehose, Glasgow, 1870).
Works of Scottish working woman writer. Hardback. Gilt lettering. Light rubbing / scuffing / marking to green cloth, espec. at edges, a little splitting internally at spine, otherwise good, solid. xiv + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A2445
Keywords: B001SHOSAM, Janet Hamilton, woman writer, women writers, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, poem, poetry, poet, poets, British, women, Britain, memorial edition, poems, Scot, Scotch, literature, collectible, antiquarian
Price £34.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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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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Hughes, Emrys, ed.
Keir Hardie's Speeches and Writings: from 1888 to 1915
(Forward Printing and Publishing, 1915).
Hardback. Some fading to cloth at spine and top edge, otherwise good. xvi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15994
Keywords: B00GHT6UQQ, antiquarian, Keir Hardie, Labour, Left, Labour Party, history, ILP, Independent Labour Party, socialism, socialist, speeches, literature, writings
Price £20.00.
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
Price £15.00.
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Booth, Charles, ed.
Life and Labour of the People of London:
(Macmillan, 1892).
Volume III (3, Three): Blocks of Buildings, Schools and Immigration. Original edition. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and markings, gilt lettering to spine, good+ condition, firm. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16073
Keywords: London, streets, Charles Booth, Charles Booth's London, metropolitan, social history, poverty, poor, class, population, demography, demographic, occupations, working classes, working class, working-class, neighbourhood, Britain, British, England, English, Booths, Booth, social investigations, surveys, urban history, labor, labour, life and labour, towns, town, city, cities, urbanisation, classification, statistical, statistics, school boards, education, housing, neighbours, inhabitants, respectability, blocks, London, antiquarian, buildings, schools, immigration, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century
Price £42.00.
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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Life of Frances Power Cobbe: by Herself
(Richard Bentley, 1894).
In two volumes. Scarce. With illustrations. Gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to front board. Hardback. Edges rubbed and corners worn, some foxing to endpapers and title pages, otherwise very good, fairly bright, solid copies. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-C7265
Keywords: Frances Power Cobbe, Cobbe, set, feminist, feminism, feminists, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, antiquarian, autobiography, autobiographies, women, women writer, women writers, woman, woman writers, journalist, journalists, journalism, women journalist, women journalist, woman journalists, women journalists, women's rights, The Claims Of Women, gender, women's movement, women's movements, Miss Power Cobbe, women's history, history, woman, womanhood, letters, letter, correspondence, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettes, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, suffragist, suffragists, right, rights, philanthropist, philanthropy, philanthropists, philanthropic, volumes
Price £80.00.
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Robins, Elizabeth.
Way Stations:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1st edition, 1913).
Hardback. Cloth worn, mainly at spine ends and edges. Spine dull with a little spotting, page edges, intro pgs, endpapers foxed - otherwise a good solid copy. Blue cloth. xii + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C14930
Keywords: B00086JKKM, Elizabeth Robins, women's suffrage, woman suffrage, women writers, Where Are You Going To, fiction, suffragettes, acting, actresses, novels, novelists, theatre, collectible, antiquarian, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, Women's Social and Political Union, actresses, actresss, theatre, drama, plays, novelists, feminists, actors, literature, original suffragette ephemera, Women Writers' Suffrage League, hunger strikes
Price £110.00.
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Dane, Clemence.
The Women's Side:
(Herbert Jenkins, 1926).
Hardback. A little fading / soiling to red cloth, especially at spine, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15928
Keywords: B00085URVY, Clemence Dane, women, antiquarian, suffragettes, education, votes, woman question, marriage
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