Whyte, Edna Gardner.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography
(Orion, 1991).
With Ann L. Cooper. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C5582
Keywords: 0517576856, Edna Gardner Whyte, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, flight, aviators, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, pilots, pilot, military, Ninety Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, women's work, women and work, America, American, USA, United States, flying, flight, flying machines
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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
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Barlow, Amy.
Seventh Child: The Autobiography of a Headmistress
(Gerald Duckworth and Co, 1969).
Hardback. Good+ in slightly worn dustwrapper. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A12201
Keywords: 0715604287, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Amy Barlow, schoolmistress, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students
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Willard, Frances E.
Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman
(Source Book Press, rpt, 1970).
Complete, unabridged republication of 1889 Chicago edition. Intro. by Hannah Whitall Smith. Hardback. Slight darkening / light marking to red boards, otherwise very good. xvi + 698pp. Order No. NSBK-C1593
Keywords: B0008C0JOM, Frances Willard, Hannah Whitall Smith, Hannah Smith, America, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, autobiography, history, Chicago, nineteenth century, women's history, women, autobiographies, Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU, W.C.T.U
Price £22.00.
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Nolan, Christopher.
Under the Eye of the Clock:
(Weidenfield and Nicholson, 1987).
Preface by John Carey. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 163pp. Order No. NSBK-A5070
Keywords: 0297790927, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, Christopher Nolan spastic, Dam-Burst of Dreams, brain damage
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John, Augustus.
Finishing Touches:
(Readers Union, 1966).
With black and white photographs. Edited and introduced by Daniel George. Hardback. Spine ends slightly soiled, otherwise good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A12128
Keywords: B0000CMCW9, Augustus John, Finishing Touches, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Oakley, Ann.
Man and Wife: Richard and Kay Titmuss: My Parents Early Years
(Flamingo, 1997).
Paperback. Spine creased and cover edges worn, otherwise good. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C10416
Keywords: 0006550134, parents, Richard Titmuss, Kay Titmuss, Kay Miller, welfare state, biography, biographies, autobiography, autobiographies, feminism, feminists, family, social history, families, Britain, British, England, English, twentieth century, 20th
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Butler, Lord.
The Art of the Possible: The Memoirs of Lord Butler
(Hamish Hamilton, 1971).
Hardback. Good in chipped dustwrapper. x + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-A9373
Keywords: 0241020077, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life histories, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, politicians, Lord Butler, memoirs, Suez, Conservatives, Tories, Tory Party
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Devas, Nicolette.
Susannah's Nightingales:
(Readers Union, Rpt 1979).
A Companion Piece to Two Flamboyant Fathers. Hardback. Light moulding to boards, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C4577
Keywords: 0002627582, autobiography, autobiographies, Two Flamboyant Fathers, Nicolette Devas, Augustus John, painter, painting, Caitlin Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Anthony Devas, Majoliers, Bel Ombre, Provence, Quakers, France, French, family history, genealogy, Europe, European, women's history
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Martineau, Harriet.
Harriet Martineau's Autobiography:
(Virago, 1983 rpt of Smith, Elder, 3rd edit., 1877).
Volume II. With an introduction by Gaby Weiner. Paperback. Light foxing to page edges, otherwise very good. xii + 510pp. Order No. NSBK-A620
Keywords: 086068430X, Harriet Martineau, autobiography, women writers, Unitarian, political economy, feminism, history, nineteenth century, woman, Victorian, autobiographies, Britain, British, England, English
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