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Parsons, Elsie Clews.
The Journal of a Feminist: Elsie Clews Parsons
(Thoemmes Press, 1994).
With a new introduction and notes by Margaret C. Jones. Paperback. Very good. xxxvi + 108pp. Order No. NSBK-C5993
Keywords: 9781855062504, Elsie Clews Parsons, feminism, feminists, women's history, females, woman, patriarchy, abortion, careers, divorce, laws, legal, sexuality, ageism, gender, nineteenth century, twentieth cnetury, women's rights, rights for women, American, America, biography, journals, biographies, life histories, life history, United States, USA
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Bayly, Mary.
Ragged Homes: and How to Mend Them
(James Nisbet & Co, 1859).
Possibly a first edition. Impossible to be sure as one intro page is missing - the page between the preface and the opening of the text. Frontispiece also lacking. Ex library (Royal Edinburgh Infirmary) with usual library stamps and markings. Hardback. Ex library with usual stamps and markings, a firm copy. Original embossed royal blue boards, with attractive gilt decoation to the spine & front. Edges & corners worn. Good. viii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C16052
Keywords: poverty, poor, Victorian, social history, antiquarian, housing, homes, domesticitiy, nineteenth century
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Hill, Octavia.
House Property and its Management: Some Papers on the Methods of Management Introduced by Miss Octavia Hill and Adapted to Modern Conditions
(George Allen & Unwin, 1921).
Intro. by I. G. Gibbon. Presented by M.M. Jeffery and Edith Neville. Scarce original. Hardback. Pages and boards browned with age, spine split a little at top end, and internally at binding, else a good copy. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C6430
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, tenants, town planning, urban history, Britain, England, British, English, history, house property, house management, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, cottages, model dwellings, letters to fellow workers, women managers, Amsterdam, municipal, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment
Price £30.00.
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Dorr, Rheta Childe.
What Eight Million Women Want:
(Craus, 1971 rpt of 1910 edit).
Hardback. Ex library, very good. xii + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C2588
Keywords: B0006VUHP6, women's history, suffrage, United States, America, votes for women, suffragettes, women's rights,women's politics, Rheta Childe Dorr, culture clubs, salic law
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Dawley, Alan.
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn
(Harvard University Press, rpt., 1979).
Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled covers. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C7793
Keywords: 0674133951, Lynn, American, America, United States, USA, shoes, shoemakers, footwear, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, labor, labour, work, employers, employees, workers, owners, factories, nineteenth-century, nineteenth, 19th, property, income, economics, economy, history, social, Industrial Revolution, entrepreneurs, artisans, factory, poor, militants, politicians, equal rights, factory system
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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, .
Royal Commission on Equal Pay: 1944 - 46 Report
(HMSO, 1946).
Important source material on the gender division of labour in the 1940s. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some damage to binding at spine ends, (front cover detached by 2 inches at top), otherwise good. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A7688
Keywords: equal pay, pay, employment, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, reports, gender, gender division of labour, labour, history, labor, industry, industries, women, men, workers, teaching, public service, local government, employees, wages, economy, economic, professions, law, period sources, jobs, occupations, booklet
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Loane, Marcus.
From Their Point of View:
(Garland Publishing, 1980).
Hardback. Ex library but with no visible stamps and stickers. 309pp. Order No. NSBK-A12661
Keywords: 0824001133, social commentary, Marcus Loane, poor, poverty, charity, charitable, poverty, philanthropy, philanthropists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Holland, Bernard.
The Fall of Protection, 1840-1850:
(Porcupine, rpt, 1980).
Hardback. Very good. x + 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A3934
Keywords: 0879918578, protection, Britian, British, history, England, English, Victorian, Robert Peel, the Hungry Forties, protectionism, protectionists, corn law, corn laws, Condition of England
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Hirsch, Pam.
Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, 1827-1891: Feminist, Artist and Rebel
(Chatto & Windus, 1998).
Hardback. Some foxing / soiling to page edges, otherwise good in dustwrapper. x + 390pp. Order No. NSBK-C2716
Keywords: 0701167971, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, higher education, adult education
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Gowing, Richard.
Richard Cobden:
(Cassell & Co., 26th thous., 1889).
World's Workers Series. Hardback. Minor marginal pencil notation, spine ends & corners slightly rubbed, otherwise very good with bright blue & red boards. 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A2234
Keywords: B00087J8JO, Richard Cobden, Cobden, radical, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, radicals, nineteenth century, 19th century, Victorians, free trade, corn law, corn laws, The Anti-Corn Law League, economic history
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