Hobhouse, Emily.
The Brunt of War and Where it Fell:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2007 facsimile of the 1902 edition).
A facsimile edition of a very scarce book. Complete with a map and all illustrations. Hardback. Good in blue cloth. xvi + 357pp. Order No. NSBK-C13227
Keywords: 0954476131, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs, self history, self histories, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, Boer War, Boers, South Africa, Africa, African, wars, South African War, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, century, Emily Hobhouse, camps, war camp, war camps, concentration camps, camp, POW, prisoners of war, enemy, enemies, soldiers, soldier, Cape, Cape Colony, children, child, Chamberlain, homes, housing, deprivation, starvation, Britain, British, England, English, troop, troops, battle, battles, battallions, propaganda, battallion, living conditions, Southern Africa, Southern African, Afrikaan, Afrikaans, Veld, scorched earth policy, charity, philanthropy, Portrayer Publishers
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Whitney, Janet.
Elizabeth Fry: Quaker Heroine
(George G. Harrap, rpt., 1938).
Hardback. Newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, boards stained and worn, otherwise good. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C11320
Keywords: 0405090722, prison, prison reform, Elizabeth Fry, philanthropy, Victorian, Quaker, women, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, jails, gaols, Quakers, biography, biographical, biographies, life history, life histories
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Hill, Octavia.
Homes of the London Poor:
(Macmillan, first edition, 1875).
Rare first edition copy. Hardback. Leather spine worn / scuffed. Cloth, which is a little patchy with sun-fading, has light marking, spotting. Fly leaf split at spine and last page loose, else a good solid copy. pp. Order No. NSBK-C16068
Keywords: housing, Octavia Hill, dwellings, philanthropy, the poor, poverty, Victorian, England, town planning, urban history, open spaces, countryside, Britain, England, British, English, history, Octavia Hill's essays, nineteenth century, papers, works, garden cities, period sources, contemporary comment, district visiting, volunteer visitors, commons, charity, charities, COS, C.O.S., Charity Organisation Society, London, women
Price £135.00.
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Fawcett, Millicent and Turner, E. M.
Josephine Butler: her Work and Principles and their Meaning for the Twentieth Century
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1927 edit).
Paperback. New book, fine. vii + 164pp. Order No. NSBK-C5334
Keywords: 0954263286, Josephine Butler, philanthropy, prostitution, Victorian, morality, social purity, reform, Britain, British, England, English, history, prostitute, prostitutes, women, women's history, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, twentieth century, sexuality, gender, Portrayer, Liverpool, social history, philanthropists, Contagious Diseases Acts
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Wood, Ethel M.
The Pilgrimage of Perseverance:
(Nat. Counc. Soc. Services, 1949).
Hardback. Boards slightly marked, otherwise good in soiled, torn / repaired dustwrapper. x + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-C2324
Keywords: B0007IV4QE, social services, civil service, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, philanthropy
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Ouvry, Elinor Southwood.
Extracts from Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1864 - 1911:
(Adelphi Book Shop, London, 1933).
Foreword by Neville Chamberlain. Card covers. Spine darkened, edges of covers slightly chipped / slightly curled, some chipping to spine, internally very good. iii + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C4295
Keywords: B001QVTYT0, open spaces, housing, housing management, house, houses, Octavia Hill, London, philanthropy, women, woman, philanthropist, philanthropists, town planning, social history, welfare, towns, city, cities, fellow workers, fellow-workers, housing reformers, housing reformer, slum, slums, property, poor, poverty, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century
Price £26.50.
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
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Sutherland, John.
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian
(OUP Clarendon, 1990).
A biography of Mary Ward: novelist; anti-suffragist; philanthropist; founder of Somerville College for women in Oxford; journalist during World War I. Hardback. Dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. ix + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C6392
Keywords: 9780198185871, women writers, novels, novelists, literature, Victorian, Edwardian, Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford University, biography, biographies, Mary Ward, women journalists, journalism, anti-suffrage, philanthropy, women philanthropists
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
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Sander, Kathleen Waters.
The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900
(Illinois UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C12317
Keywords: 0252067037, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Woman's Exchange Movement, business, charity, philanthropic, philanthropy
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