Whelan, Robert, ed. (Octavia Hill).
Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers, 1872 - 1911: Together with an Account of the Walmer Street Industrial Experiment
(Kyrle Books, 2005).
Hardback. Fine in fine dustwrapper. lxiv + 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A8671
Keywords: 0954891406, letters, correspondence, Octavia Hill, Octavia Hill's letters, fellow workers, fellow-workers, letters to fellow-workers, autobiography, autobiographical, social history, housing, houses, philanthropic, philanthropy, Victorian, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th century, nineteenth century, 19th century, women, women's history, Walmer Street Industrial Experiment, tenants, Charity Organisation Society, poor, poverty, social welfare, open spaces, National Trust, reformers, reform, slums, slum, London, Lambeth, Walworth, charity, charities, charity work, Ecclesiastical Commissioners, Kyrle Society, homes, dwellings, Britain, British, England, English
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Barnard, Mary.
Diary of an Optimist:
(The Larks Press, rpt., 1997).
Paperback. Very good+. 190pp. Order No. NSBK-C10352
Keywords: 0948400323, Mary Barnard, women, woman, women's studies, women's history, children, motherhood, mothers, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, home helps, rationing, food, clothing, shortages, teachers, education, counsellors, magistrates, journalists
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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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Allen, Oliver E.
Decorating with Plants:
(Time-life Books, rpt., 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 158pp. Order No. NSBK-A12263
Keywords: 0705405753, plants, flowers, gardening, gardeners, horticulture, horticulturalists, home decor, decoration, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Eckford, E. Stoddart and Fitzgerald, M. S.
Household Management: A Handbook of Domestic Economy and Hygiene
(Sir Isaac Pitman, 1927).
Fourth Impression. Hardback. Covers and spine slightly soiled, otherwise good. iv + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A11853
Keywords: B000HC1SD4, E. Stoddart Eckman, M. S. Fitzgerald, domestic economy, hygiene, houses, households, household management, housewives, housewifery, homes
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Herbert, Michael.
The Wearing of the Green: a Political History of the Irish in Manchester
(IBRG, 2001).
Paperback. New book, fine. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A4434
Keywords: 0954137809, Irish, Manchester, history, politics, political, Michael Herbert, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Ireland, Irish independence, United Irishmen, Fenianism, Fenians, Home Rule, Republicanism, nationalism, emigration, emigrants, immigration, immigrants, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Mancunians, North West, England, English, Britain, British
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Mitchell, David.
Women on the Warpath: The Story of the Women of the First World War
(Jonathan Cape, 1966).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library markings. Some cracking internally at spine, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. xvi + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A14202
Keywords: B0000CMXCJ, World War 1, World War One, World War I, First World War, Great War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th, munitions, Western Front, Pankhursts, women, women's history, WAAC, Pethick-Lawrence
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Peterson, M. Jeanne.
Family, Love and Work in the Lives of Victorian Gentlewomen:
(Indiana UP, 1989).
Paperback. Spine browned, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. xii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-C4229
Keywords: 0253205093, family, love, work, Victorian, women, gentlewomen, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, middle class, middle classes, upper-middle-classes, class, private sphere, public sphere, separate spheres, leisure, leisured classes, home, domesticity, gender, wife, wives, M. Jeanne Peterson, marriage, marriages, wedlock
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Stone, Dorothy.
The National: The Story of a Pioneer College: The National Training College of Domestic Subjects
(Brighton Polytechnic Press, 1973).
Hardback. Very good. xvi + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C8860
Keywords: 0904167003, The National Training College of Domestic Subjects, education, women's history, women, woman, gender, pioneers, Dorothy Stone, Surrey, Brighton, Home Economics, domestic, domesticity, cooking, cooks, cookery, nineteenth century, twentieth century, training, domestic sciences, 19th, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, Victorian, Edwardian, schools, teaching, training colleges, catering
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