Read, Anthony & Fisher, David.
The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence
(Jonathan Cape, 1997).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, overall good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xxv + 565pp. Order No. NSBK-A8691
Keywords: 0224039563, India, Indian, history, independence, Indian independence, Empire, imperial, imperialism, British Empire, Raj, politics, Gandhi, Nehru, Jinnah, Far East, Far Eastern
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Goldstein, Donald M. & Dillon, Katherine V.
Amelia: The Centennial Biography of an Aviation Pioneer
(Brassey's, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. 321pp. Order No. NSBK-C4692
Keywords: 157488199X, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, flight, aeronautical, history, flying, flights, air travel, women's history, woman, heroine, women and work, adventuress, Amelia Earhart, biography, biographies, pioneers, pioneer, American, America, United States, USA
Price £6.00.
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Diver, Maud.
Candles in the Wind:
(William Blackwood and Sons, 1909).
Hardback. Edges rubbed and corners a little bent, some ink splashes to spine, otherwise good with gilt titles. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C6840
Keywords: B00087OOHK, Maud Diver, Candles in the Wind, fiction, Indian, India, novels, women writers, woman writer, twentieth century, Edwardian, 20th, literature
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Hill, Miranda.
The Fairy Spinner: and Out of Date or Not?
(Marcus Ward & Co, 1875).
Illustrated. Hardback. Some natural foxing with age, especially to endpapers, some wear to edges and spine ends, otherwise good in pictorial boards with gilt titles. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A16009
Keywords: antiquarian, Miranda Hill, Victorian, nineteenth century, fiction, women writers, literature, illustrated
Price £45.00.
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Butler, Josephine E.
Social Purity:
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1879 text).
No 3 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 19pp. Order No. NSBK-C6303
Keywords: B001BI2Q0M, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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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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Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed.
Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874
(Yale UP, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-C9223
Keywords: 0300047770, Boston, America, American, United States, USA, US, Alice Stone Blackwell, nineteenth century, 19th, Victorian, women writers, woman writer, journals, diaries, diary, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, Emily Blackwell, women's suffrage, suffragettes, women's movement, women's rights
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Sands, Frederick & Broman, Sven.
The Divine Garbo:
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1979).
With many photos. Hardback. Cloth slightly damaged at base, otherwise a very good copy in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C4081
Keywords: 0283985453, Greta Garbo, actresses, women, woman, big screen, Hollywood, films, history, film stars, Frederick Sands, twentieth century
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Maurice, Frederick D.
The Workman and the Franchise: Chapters from English History on the Representation and Education of the People
(A. Kelley, 1970 rpt of 1866 edit.).
Hardback. Fine. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A2005
Keywords: 0678005923, franchise, politics, political reform, voting, election, Reform Acts, education, representation, Victorian, nineteenth century, workman, working-class, working class, electoral reform, Britain, British, England, English, history, Frederick Maurice, Maurice, Augustus M. Kelley reprints
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Atkinson, Kate.
Human Croquet:
(Doubleday, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 349pp. Order No. NSBK-C4509
Keywords: 0385405960, Kate Atkinson, Human Croquet, woman writer, women writers, literature, literary, fiction, novels, novelist
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