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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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Alan Sutton, 1985).
Paperback. Creases to back cover, otherwise good. xii + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-A13483
Keywords: 0862991579, women, woman, gender, 1920s, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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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
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Griffiths, Gareth.
Women's Factory Work in World War I:
(Alan Sutton, 1991).
With previously unknown photographs from the Home Office Industrial Museum. Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to rear endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. viii + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-C665
Keywords: 9780862997953, women's history, factory, factories, munitions, Great War, World War I, First World War, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Silkin, Jon, ed.
First World War Poetry:
(Penguin, 2nd edit., rpt, 1986).
Paperback. Spine & corners creased, light edge wear, otherwise good. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A2891
Keywords: 0140080325, war, First World War, World War I, Great War, literature, poetry, poet, Britain, British, England, English, history, WWI, WW1, fighting, battles, trenches, The Great War
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Morgan, J. Vyrnwy, ed.
Welsh Political and Educational Leaders in the Victorian Era:
(James Nisbet, 1908).
Hardback. Spine faded, edges rubbed and boards slightly marked, otherwise a good copy. 734pp. Order No. NSBK-A6637
Keywords: B000HBZ5KC, Welsh, Wales, politics, political, leaders, MPs, educational, great men, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, history, J. Vyrnwy Morgan, schooling, schools, biographies, biography, biographical, education
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Kinnear, Mary.
Margaret McWilliams: An Interwar Feminist:
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xviii + 210pp. Order No. NSBK-C3899
Keywords: 0773508570, Margaret McWilliams, feminism, feminist, women, women's history, woman, biography, Canada, Canadian, First World War, World War 1, Great War, Canadian Federation of University Women, academic, interwar, biographies, biography
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Buxton, Charles Roden.
Peace This Winter: a Reply to Mr Lloyd George
(American Neutral Conference Committee, reprint of text of 1918?).
Pamphlet. Light foxing & browing, otherwise good+. 4pp. Order No. NSBK-A7676
Keywords: 1918, war, Great War, First World War, peace, pacifism, pacifist, pacifists, David Lloyd George, armistice, Charles Roden Buxton, German, Germany Allies, peace negotiations, pamphlet
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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