Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
Price £46.00.
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Buckley, V. C.
The Good Life: Between the Two World Wars with a Candid Camera
(Morrow Quill, 1979).
Illustrated. Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A2689
Keywords: 0688085032, camera, photography, interwar, photograph, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £10.00.
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Forster, Canon Leslie John.
Through a Glass Darkly: Notes on the Life of a Parish Priest
(St Helen's Church, 1998).
Edited by Paul Catcheside. Paperback. Covers lightly marked, otherwise very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A14047
Keywords: 095328560X, priests, priest, religious, religion, history, parish priests, Canon Leslie John Forster, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, St Helen's Church, church, churches, Liverpool, ordination, blind, blindness, sight, Hollinfare Church, Great Budworth, Cheshire, Antrobus, Merseyside, autobiographies, autobiography
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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
Price £7.00.
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Meacham, Standish.
A Life Apart: the English Working Class, 1890-1914
(Thames & Hudson, 1977).
Illustrated. Hardback. Smudge on front free endpaper, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A1925
Keywords: 0500250553, class, working-class, working class, family, Edwardian, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Despard, Annabelle, ed.
A Woman's Place: Women, Domesticity and Private Life
(Agder College, Faculty of Arts, Kristiansand, Norway, 1998).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Minor soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-C15171
Keywords: 9788271173753, domesticity, women, private sphere, domestic, Agder College, Faculty of Arts, essays, Kristiansand, Norway, Norwegian, history
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John, Angela V.
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life
(Tempus, rpt, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-D15438
Keywords: 9780752440286, Elizabeth Robins, acting, theatre, stage, women' s suffrage, suffragettes, Edwardian, women's emancipation, actresses, actress, Ibsen, novelists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, USA, America, American, entertainment, biography
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Thomas, Caitlin.
Caitlin: Life with Dylan Thomas
(Henry Holt and Company, 1986).
With George Tremlett. Paperback. Very good+. xii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-C10669
Keywords: 0805007695, Dylan Thomas, Caitlin Thomas, poets, poetry, alcohol, alcoholism, Britain, British, Welsh, Wales, history, death, bereavement, twentieth century, literature, 20th, literary, writers, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical
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Hueffer, Ford M.
Ford Madox Brown: a Record of his Life and Works
(Longmans, Green, 1896).
Illustrated. Hardback. Ex library. Original attractive decorated cloth, gilt lettering. Spine edges frayed, & a little split. Cloth rather soiled. Minor splitting inside, but good, solid. xx + 458pp. Order No. NSBK-A15031
Keywords: B001GP2EUW, Ford Madox Brown, biography, biographies, art, artists, history, paintings, painting, history, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Victorian, painters, nineteenth century, 19th century
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Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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