Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
Price £5.00.
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
Price £22.00.
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
Price £9.00.
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Pankhurst, Emmeline.
My Own Story:
(Vintage, 2015).
Paperback. Nice clean copy in very good condition. xiii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C15723
Keywords: 9781784870409, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, suffrage, Rights for Women, Women's Movement, female emancipation, women's rights, women's history, woman's history, autobiography, autobiographies, life histories, life history, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, radicals, radicalism, Women's Social and Political Union, munition workers, militancy, votes, voting, Christabel, Sylvia, Adela, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, woman suffrage
Price £6.99.
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Wingfield-Stratford, Esme.
Before the Lamps Went Out:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1945).
Hardback. Some light soiling/mottling to cloth, mainly at top edges, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A6206
Keywords: B0007J1DVY, technology, wartime, autobiographical, autobiography, autobiographies, twentieth century, life history, life histories, Esme Wingfield-Stratford
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Joannou, Maroula.
'Ladies, Please Don't Smash These Windows': Women's Writing, Feminist Consciousness and Social Change, 1918-38
(Berg, 1995).
Hardback. Slight crease to back cover, otherwise very good. xii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-H8038
Keywords: 0854969098, women's writing, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman, female, feminism, feminists, consciousness, social change, twentieth century, 20th, politics, feminist-materialist, class, lesbianism, lesbians, domestic, domesticity, literature, literary, novels, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Rosamund Lehmann, Radclyffe Hall, autobiographies, autobiography
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Lamont, Thomas W.
My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century
(Heinemann, 1945).
Illustrated. Hardback. Bright green cloth, good. xviii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-A2597
Keywords: B000HC0KBU, childhood, autobiography, parsonage, United States, America, Methodism, Catskill Mountains, presidential campaigns
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Maclean, Catherine Macdonald.
Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt
(Collins, 1943).
Hardback. Some foxing to first few pages, spine edges bumped and covers slightly soiled, otherwise good in soiled, torn and sellotaped dustwrapper. 629pp. Order No. NSBK-A11947
Keywords: B0007IUS0W, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Moss, Les.
Live and Learn: A Life and Struggle for Progress
(QueenSpark Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 137pp. Order No. NSBK-A12911
Keywords: 0904733068, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Les Moss, Queenspark
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