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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Banks, J. A.
Victorian Values: Secularism and the Size of Families
(Gregg Revivals, rpt., 1994).
Hardback. Near fine. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C7998
Keywords: 075120269X, contraception, family planning, children, Victorian, secularism, middle class, sexual habits, motherhood, fatherhood, health, nineteenth century, families, family, family size, birth control, history, middle classes, Britain, British, England, English, sexuality, birth rate, sexual morality, standard of living, social conditions, fertility, morals, moral code
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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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Kaufman, M.
The Housing of the Working Classes and of the Poor:
(EP Publishing/Rowman and Littlefield, 1975 rpt of 1907 text).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A2577
Keywords: 0715811347, housing, working classes, history, poor, poverty, Britain, England, urban, urbanisation, British, English, houses, paupers
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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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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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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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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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Shahar, Shulamith.
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in The Middle Ages
(Methuen, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 351pp. Order No. NSBK-C12758
Keywords: 0416368107, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, medieaval, medieval, middle ages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Eden, Frederic Morton.
The State of the Poor: or, an History of the Labouring Classes in England from the Conquest to the Present Period
(Thoemmes Continuum, 2001 facsimile edition of 1797 edition).
PLEASE NOTE: TWO VOLUMES ONLY OF THREE (Vol I and Vol II). Hardbacks. Very good condition. Set sadly lacks vol 3. xxxi + 632; viii + 692pp. Order No. NSBK-A13850
Keywords: 1855062623, poverty, poor, poor relief, friendly societies, friendly society, labouring classes, working classes, pauperism, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Frederic Morton Eden, parochial reports, diet, dress, habitation, domestic economy, philanthropy, poor houses, workhouses, 18th century, eighteenth century
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