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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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Brendon, Vyvyen.
The First World War, 1914 - 1918:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2000).
Access to History. Paperback. Very good. vi + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-A15683
Keywords: 9780340743034, First World War, Great War
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Liddle, Peter.
Testimony of War, 1914-18:
(Michael Russell, 1979).
Hardback. Large format, very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A2490
Keywords: 0859550737, history, First World War, World War II, war, Great War, twentieth century
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Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature: 1880-1920
(Blandford Press, 1970).
From the series 'History and Literature'. Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A9674
Keywords: 0713736054, literature, literary, history, historical, Great Depression of Agriculture, Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, Liberal Party, suffragette movement, First World War, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th, 19th
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Ouditt, Sharon.
Fighting Forces, Writing Women: Identity and Ideology in the First World War
(Routledge, 1994).
Very good. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C15575
Keywords: 9781138151529, women writers, Great War, literature, history, World War I
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Constantine, Stephen, Kirby, M. W. & Rose M.B., eds.
The First World War in British History:
(Edward Arnold, 1995).
Paperback. Some foxing / soiling to page edges, otherwise good. ix + 286pp. Order No. NSBK-A2454
Keywords: 0340570539, First World War, World War I, Great War, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, twentieth century, Germany, France
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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