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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Benjamin, E Alwyn.
Penarth, 1841-71: A Glimpse of the Past
(D Brown and Sons Ltd, 1980).
Paperback. Slight scratching and browning to covers and small sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good. 182pp. Order No. NSBK-A7321
Keywords: 0905928113, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Penarth, demography, demographic, public health, population, Welsh, Wales, births, deaths, Glamorgan, properties, occupations, census, census returns, housing
Price £4.00.
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Hill, Octavia.
Our Common Land:
(Macmillan, 1877).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to spine, spine ends, edges and corners. Cloth a little marked / rubbed -else good / solid. vi + 206pp. Order No. NSBK-C6431
Keywords: B001P1SGF4, 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
Price £120.00.
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Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
Price £30.00.
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