Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Butler, Josephine E.
Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facsimile reprint of 1910 edition).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C581
Keywords: 0954263219, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Whyte, Edna Gardner.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography
(Orion, 1991).
With Ann L. Cooper. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C5582
Keywords: 0517576856, Edna Gardner Whyte, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, flight, aviators, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, pilots, pilot, military, Ninety Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, women's work, women and work, America, American, USA, United States, flying, flight, flying machines
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Sand, George.
My Life: George Sand
(Harper and Row, 1979).
Translated and Adapted by Dan Hofstadter. Hardback. Very good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. viii + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C5967
Keywords: 0060137665, Mme Dudevant, George Sand, women writers, socialism, France, French, history, autobiographies, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, socialists, socialist, feminist, feminists, feminism
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Ping-Ying, Hsieh.
The Autobiography of a Chinese Girl: A Genuine Autobiography
(George Allen and Unwin, 5th impress., 1945).
With a Preface by Gordon Bottomley. Translated into English with an introduction by Tsui Chi. Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly chipped dw. 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C4697
Keywords: B000HGWTVA, China, Chinese, autobiography, autobiographies, memoirs, life histories, history, histories, Hsieh Ping-Ying
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Symes, R. A.
Tracing Your Ancestors Through Letters and Personal Writings: a Guide for Family Historians
(Pen and Sword, 2016).
Could your ancestors write their own names or did they mark official documents with a cross? Why did great-grandfather write so cryptically on a postcard home during the First World War? Why did great-grandmother copy all the letters she wrote into letter-books? How unusual was it that great-uncle sat down and wrote a poem, or a memoir? Researching Family History Through Ancestors' Personal Writings looks at the kinds of (mainly unpublished) writing that could turn up amongst family papers from the Victorian period onwards - a time during which writing became crucial for holding families together and managing their collective affairs. With industrialisation, improved education, and far more geographical mobility, British people of all classes were writing for new purposes, with new implements, in new styles, using new modes of expression and new methods of communication (e.g. telegrams and postcards). Our ancestors had an itch for scribbling from the most basic marks (initials, signatures and graffiti on objects as varied as trees, rafters and window ledges), through more emotionally-charged kinds of writing such as letters and diaries, to more creative works such as poetry and even fiction. This book shows family historians how to get the most out of documents written by their ancestors and, therefore, how better to understand the people behind the words. Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 270pp. Order No. NSBK-A15529
Keywords: 9781473855434, family, geneaology, family trees, geneaological, diaries, social history, family historians, ancestors, literacy, correspondence, journals, autobiographies, signatures, commonplace books
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Healey, Bert.
Hard Times and Easy Terms: And Other Tales by a Queens Park Cockney
(Russell Press, 1980).
Paperback. Good. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-A12910
Keywords: B000R58XTS, Queens Park, Bert Healey, Cockney, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Priestley, Philip.
Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914
(Methuen, 1985).
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-A298
Keywords: 0416347703, biography, biographies, prison, gaol, jail, prisons, jails, England, English, Britain, British, gaols, crime, criminals, criminal, law and order, prisoner, prisoners, incarceration, prison administration, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, imprisonment, imprison
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Devas, Nicolette.
Susannah's Nightingales:
(Readers Union, Rpt 1979).
A Companion Piece to Two Flamboyant Fathers. Hardback. Light moulding to boards, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C4577
Keywords: 0002627582, autobiography, autobiographies, Two Flamboyant Fathers, Nicolette Devas, Augustus John, painter, painting, Caitlin Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Devas, Majoliers, Bel Ombre, Provence, Quakers, France, French, family history, genealogy, Europe, European, women's history
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Sadat, Jehan.
A Woman of Egypt:
(Simon Schuster, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in creased dustwrapper. 478pp. Order No. NSBK-C5430
Keywords: 0671540713, Anwar Sadat, Jehan Sadat, Cairo, Egypt, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, woman writer, women writers, marriage, politics, Gamal Abdel Nasser, President Sadat, feminists, feminism, women's history, Muslim, Islam, Israel, Victory Day
Price £11.00.
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