Peterson, M. Jeanne.
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen:
(Indiana UP, 1989).
Paperback. Spine browned, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. xii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-C4229
Keywords: 0253205093, family, love, work, Victorian, women, gentlewomen, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, upper-middle-classes, class, private sphere, public sphere, separate spheres, leisure, leisured classes, home, domesticity, gender, wife, wives, M. Jeanne Peterson, marriage, marriages, wedlock
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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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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
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Holcombe, Lee.
Victorian Ladies at Work: Middle-Class Working Women in England and Wales, 1850 - 1914
(David and Charles, 1973).
Hardback. Minor pencil annotation and with newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise good+ in chipped / faded / rubbed dustwrapper. x + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-C10502
Keywords: 9780715364116, women and work, women's history, working women, feminism, Victorian, middle class, Britain, England, British, English, history, Wales, Welsh
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Savage, Henry L., ed.
St. Erkenwald: a Middle English Poem
(Yale UP, 1926).
Yale Studies in English. Paperback. Ex library with minor library markings. Top end of spine slightly split but repaired with sellotape, a little curling to top corner of cover, otherwise good+. lxxix + 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A14863
Keywords: B001OJJVOC, Middle Ages, medieval, mediaeval, history, poems, poetry, St. Erkenwald, Middle English, language, late medieval
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Hopkins, Andrea.
Most Wise and Valiant Ladies: Remarkable Lives. Women of the Middle Ages
(Collins and Brown, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-C8940
Keywords: 1855854813, heroines, Middle Ages, history, medieval, mediaeval, Christine de Pisan, Margaret Paston, Joan of Arc, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Margery Kempe, Hildegard of Bingen
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Kelly's, .
Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes for 1919:
(Kelly's Directories, 1919).
45th Annual Edition. Hardback. Original red cloth with black and gilt detail. Some light soiling and light wear to cloth, espec. at edges, otherwise good+, solid. xvii + 1741pp. Order No. NSBK-A15210
Keywords: B002VDA1PI, Kelly's directories, Kelly's handbook, Kelly, upper class, upper classes, titles, history, titled, class, social structure, aristocracy
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James, Louis.
Fiction for the Working Man, 1830 - 50: A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Victorian Urban England
(Penguin, rpt, 1974).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xviii + 261pp. Order No. NSBK-A8755
Keywords: 014060037X, fiction, class, working class, working classes, nineteenth century, 19th century, workers, working men, social history, class consciousness, reading habits, reading matter, Britain, British, England, English, popular literature, Victorian, popular fiction, publishing, popular culture, history, urbanisation
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Thornton, William T.
Over-Population and its Remedy: an Inquiry into the Distress Prevailing Among the Labouring Classes of the British Islands and into the Means of Remedying It
(Irish University Press, 1971 rpt of 1846 edition).
Hardback. Very good. xi + 446pp. Order No. NSBK-A5918
Keywords: 9780716517511, over-population, population, demography, demographic, labour, labor, laboring classes, labouring classes, laborers, labourers, Britain, British, England, English, history, poor, pauperism, poor laws, Malthus, Malthusian, Victorian, nineteenth century, economic, economic, resources, working classes
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McKibbin, Ross.
Classes and Cultures: England, 1918 - 1951
(OUP, 1998).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. With newspaper articles pasted to fly leaf, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. vii + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-C15699
Keywords: 9780198206729, class, classes, cultures, Ross McKibbin, interwar, inter-war, culture, social history, twentieth century, England, English, Britain, British, social customs, social life, class consciousness, social conditions, 20th century
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