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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Wilson, Barbara Ker, ed.
Everyone Mattered: The Life and Times of Dame Kitty Anderson
(The Chandos Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C6864
Keywords: 0954531108, Dame Kitty Anderson, education, educational, schools, schooling, NCLS, Royal Holloway College, headmistress, headmistresses, teaching, teachers, women and work, women's work, childhood, children, twentieth century, Dames, Founder's Day, Margaret Ghilchik, Joan Clanchy, Olive Mellor, Erica Brostoff, schooldays, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, Kay Moore, Caroline M Barron, Katharine McMahon, Ann Thomas, Janet Sondheimer, women's education
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Drummond, James.
Upstairs to Downstairs: Advice to Servant Girls and Weary Mothers. Extracts from the Magazine of the Onward and Upward Association
(Aberdeen UP, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A13110
Keywords: 0080412041, advice, servant girls, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, mothers, motherhood, maternal
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
What a Woman May Be, and Yet Not Have the Vote: What a Man May Be, and Yet Not Lose the Vote
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant lithographic colours and depicts a row of women in respectable jobs and beneath this a row of male convicts, lunatics etc. (Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked with a Portrayer insignia and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft). Brand new fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14447
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, artist, artists, suffragette art, art, arts, artistry, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth centuries, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, women and work, professions
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Howard, Ann.
Where Do We Go From Here?: Compelling Post-war Experiences of Australian Ex-Servicewomen, 1945-1948
(Tarka Publishing, 1994).
Paperback. Fine. x + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C8312
Keywords: 0646021389, Australian, Australia, servicewomen, women, women and work, women's work, Second World War, wars, World War 2, Two, II, Australasian, oral, history, twentieth, century, 20th, females, WAAF
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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Hakim, Catherine.
Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market:
(OUP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A12473
Keywords: 019829381X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, social change, employment, twentietrh century, 20th, census, women's work
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Bowman, Gerald.
The Lamp and the Book: The Story of the Rcn, 1916-1966
(The Queen Anne Press, 1967).
Hardback. Page edges foxed, a little spotting to cloth, otherwise good. 206pp. Order No. NSBK-A3936
Keywords: 0362000220, Royal College of Nursing, nurse, nursing, medicine, medical, health, doctor, women's work, twentieth century, Nightingale Training School, hospital, National Council of Nurses, nursing profession, Nurses Act
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Riemer, Eleanor S. & Fout, John C., eds.
European Women: a Documentary History, 1789-1945
(Harvester, 1983).
Social documents written by women, organised in 4 sections: women & work; women's politics; women & the family; woman & her body. Scarce. PB. Spine faded and creased, otherwise good. xxi + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C2294
Keywords: 0710804792, women's history, europeans, european, europe, document, documents, resources, resource, women in work, work, women, employment, working women, working woman, politics, political, marriage, matrimony, sexuality, contraception, gender, abortion, abortionists, motherhood, working class, working classes
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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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