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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Bonnard, Pierre.
Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947:
(Royal Academy of Arts, 1966).
Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 1966. Paperback. Small sticker mark to front cover, otherwise good. Light soiling to covers. 110pp. Order No. NSBK-A10080
Keywords: B0000CNC3D, Pierre Bonnard, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, 20th, Royal Academy of Arts, painters, paintings, images, pictures
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Hardie, James Keir.
The Citizenship of Women: a Plea for Women's Suffrage
(Portrayer, 2002, facs. of 3rd edit of 1906).
Number 3 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 15pp. Order No. NSBK-A5189
Keywords: 0954263278, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, James Keir Hardie, socialism, socialist, socialists, Labour Movement, Labour, Labour Party, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Keir Hardie, Labour leaders, Socialist leaders, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, 20th century, turn of the century, political, booklet
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Duncker, Patricia.
Miss Webster and Cherif:
(Bloomsbury, 2006).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. 244pp. Order No. NSBK-H13029
Keywords: 0747582777, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Miss Webster, Cherif, Patricia Duncker
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Parr, Joy.
Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924
(Croom Helm, 1980).
Scarce. Hardback. Good condition, in faded and lightly soiled dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-A3988
Keywords: 0773505172, immigrants, apprentices, apprenticeship, Canada, Canadian history, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, emigrants, emigration, child, children, childhood, labor, labour, adoption, philanthropy, philanthropic, agricultural, domestic service, domestic servants, Evangelicals, migration
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Davies, Jean A.
The Mystery of Tinkers' Well:
(Pickering and Inglis, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in chipped, slightly torn, slightly soiled dustwrapper. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A3598
Keywords: B000HBYTHW, children's book, children's story, Jean A. Davies, Wales, Welsh, Tinkers Well, Tinkers' Well
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France, Peter.
Greek as a Treat: An Introduction to the Classics
(BBC Books, 1993).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xiv + 190pp. Order No. NSBK-A9738
Keywords: 0563367377, classical, classics, Greek, Greece, ancient, languages, Arcadia, democracy, drama, gymnastics, gynaecology, ethics, philosophy, philosophers
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Oakley, Ann.
Forgotten Wives: How Women Get Written Out of History
(Bristol UP, 2021).
Paperback. Very good+. xiii + 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C15645
Keywords: 9781447355847, marriage, wives, history, women
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Williamson, Dr George and Buckman, Percy.
The Art of the Miniature Painter:
(Chapman and Hall, 1926).
Universal Art Series. Hardback. Ex Library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly worn boards. xx + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A15400
Keywords: B00085M5S2, painter, painting, miniatures, twentieth century
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Whitehouse, J. Howard.
Creative Education at an English School:
(CUP, 1928).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by library stickers, boards marked/slightly soiled and corners worn, otherwise good. xi + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-A3301
Keywords: B0006FEQX6, education, creative, Bembridge, public school, private education, woodwork, pottery calligraphy, gardening, boys' education
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