Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Beer, Gillian, ed.
Charles Darwin and T. H. Huxley: Autobiographies
(OUP, 1983).
Paperback. Corners slightly worn, otherwise good+. xxvi + 123pp. Order No. NSBK-A10148
Keywords: 0192851314, Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer, autobiography, autobiographies, Victorians, nineteenth century, lives, life history, life histories, science, history of science. T. H. Huxley, memoirs
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly sun-faded, otherwise very good. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A1481
Keywords: 9780140073454, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain
Price £6.95.
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Wingfield-Stratford, Esme.
Before the Lamps Went Out:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1945).
Hardback. Some light soiling/mottling to cloth, mainly at top edges, otherwise good. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A6206
Keywords: B0007J1DVY, technology, wartime, autobiographical, autobiography, autobiographies, twentieth century, life history, life histories, Esme Wingfield-Stratford
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Miller, Hugh.
My Schools and Schoolmasters: the Story of My Education
(Edinburgh, W.P. Nimmo, Hay, Mitchell, rpt, 1889).
Hardback. Some rubbing to edges and corners, and soiling to page edges, otherwise a good copy. xi + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-A8603
Keywords: B0008A80KY, evangelical Christians, Christianity, religion, religious, evangelicalism, Cromarty, education, autobiographies, autobiography, history, life history, life histories, Scots, Scotland, Scottish, Hugh Miller, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, self improvement, memoirs, geology, geologists
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Morley, Ken.
Knowledge is Power: My Life on Coronation Street
(Blake Publishing, 1995).
With Charles Yates. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 252pp. Order No. NSBK-A10326
Keywords: 1857821521, Coronation Street, Ken Morley, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, self history, self histories, lives, life history, life histories, TV, television, actors, acting, Coronation Street, Granada, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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Palmer, George Herbert.
The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer:
(Houghton Mifflin, 1908).
Hardback. Fly leaf and title pages loose, otherwise a good copy in dark green/black leather binding. 354pp. Order No. NSBK-A9929
Keywords: B000JQOUBK, Alice Freeman Palmer, George Herbert Palmer, American, America, USA, United States, twentieth century, women's history, Alicia, Freeman Palmer, Victorian, nineteenth century, New York, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiography, education, educationalists, teaching, teachers, colleges, Wellseley, lives, life histories, life history
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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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