Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
Price £7.50.
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Suffragette Jabot Pin, .
Suffragette Themed Jabot Pin Blue Glass Silver Plate Brooch Suffragettes: Modern Reproduction
(Portrayer Publishers, 2020).
Beautiful suffragette-themed, jewelled Jabot pin brooch, the perfect gift. Modern reproduction, brand new and art-deco in style. Main gem: imitation sapphire. Secondary gems: imitation diamonds. Dimensions: 57mm long and 12mm in breadth at widest point (where main jewel is). With safety pin and chain, and the famous suffragette slogan "Deeds Not Words" engraved on the rear of the main shaft. (These words are the wearer's secret commitment to the "Votes for Women" cause!) Presented with a free purple velvet gift-pouch, which is in turn displayed within an attractive zip-lock gift-bag, clear at the front and shiny silver at the rear. Jabot pins were first used to adorn, or fasten, a dangling ruffle known as a jabot worn by men (on shirts) and women (on dresses) during the 1600s. They became important as an article of jewellery from the Edwardian period onwards - the heyday of the British suffragette movement - and flourished through into the 1930s as a special piece of Art Deco decoration. Jabot pins were worn on cloche hats, lapels, shoulders and handbags and were often adorned with jewels. New, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16006
Keywords: B0FHBWLWSC, jabot pins, badges, badge, brooch, brooches, pins, pin, suffragettes, Votes for Women, history, social history, Edwardian, jewellery, jewelry, ephemera, memorabilia, suffragette,
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Riley, Glenda.
Divorce: An American Tradition
(OUP, 1991).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 262pp. Order No. NSBK-C12330
Keywords: 0195079124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, marriage, divorces, matrimonial, men, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, legal, laws, marital breakdown
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Jackowska, Nicki.
Lighting a Slow Fuse: New and Selected Poems
(Enitharmon Press, 1998).
Paperback. Bottom cover bumped, otherwise very good. 106pp. Order No. NSBK-A9260
Keywords: 1900564114, poems, poets, poetry, Nicki Jackowska, literary, literature, women's history
Price £5.50.
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Hilton, Mary, Styles, Morag, & Watson, Victor ed.
Opening the Nursery Door: Reading, Writing and Childhood, 1600 - 1900
(Routledge, 1997).
Paperback. Minor chipping top spine end, otherwise very good. x + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C15301
Keywords: 9780415148993, childhood, children, child, reading, writing, Jane Johnson, women educators, education, children's literature
Price £11.99.
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Huggett, Frank E.
Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times
(Book Club, 1977).
Many illustrations. Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C1822
Keywords: 0719533813, domestic service, servant, service, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, history, England, English, Victorian
Price £8.95.
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Johnston, Judith.
Anna Jameson: Victorian, Feminist, Woman of Letters
(Scolar Press, 1997).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 264pp. Order No. NSBK-C15707
Keywords: 9781859283790, Anna Jameson, women writers, Victorian, non-fiction, biography
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Nixon, Edna.
Mary Wollstonecraft: her Life and Times
(J.M. Dent, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C2069
Keywords: 046003975X, women writers, women's politics, Godwin, Vindication, women's rights, French Revolution, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman writer, feminism, feminists, feminist
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Brown, Heloise.
The Truest Form of Patriotism: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870 - 1902
(MUP, 2003).
Hardback. A little bumping to top and bottom edges, otherwise very good. viii + 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C14371
Keywords: 0719065305, pacifism, pacifists, feminism, history, Heloise Brown, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Priscilla Peckover, Ellen Robinson, women's suffrage, peace associations, Anglo-Boer War, Boer War, philanthropy, international diplomacy, suffragettes
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