Collet, Miss.
Report by Miss Collet on the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls:
(HMSO, 1894).
Rare original. Paperback. Tear to front cover, otherwise good+. vii + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C15323
Keywords: B0013IULPC, Miss Collet, women, girls, work, women's history, Britain, British, history, antiquarian, employment
Price £55.00.
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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
Price £24.00.
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Huggett, Frank E.
Life Below Stairs: Domestic Servants in England from Victorian Times
(Book Club, 1977).
Many illustrations. Hardback. Good in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C1822
Keywords: 0719533813, domestic service, servant, service, women's work, women's history, Britain, British, history, England, English, Victorian
Price £8.95.
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Fulford, Roger.
Votes for Women:
(Faber and Faber, 1957).
Hardback. Good in worn, chipped dustwrapper. 343pp. Order No. NSBK-A14433
Keywords: B0025AIW62, women's suffrage, suffragettes, history, Votes for Women, emancipation
Price £7.50.
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Hamilton, Mary Agnes.
The Labour Party Today: What it is, and How it Works
(Labour Book Service, 1939).
Scarce. With a section on women. Hardback. Some foxing, otherwise very good. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A1948
Keywords: B000LE439Y, Mary Agnes Hamilton, Hamilton, trade union, Labour party, party politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, trade unionism, women and work , women's work, labor, labour, trade unions
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Ridley, Annie E.
Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education:
(Longmans, Green, 1895).
Hardback. Some light wear to the edges, spotting to early pages, otherwise good, firm. viii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C5115
Keywords: B07FT3XRFG, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Public Day School for Girls, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, English, British, England, Britain, training, training colleges, higher education, adult education, female, university education, universities, Annie E. Ridley
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McCrindle, Jean & Rowbotham, Sheila, Eds..
Dutiful Daughters: Women Talk About Their Lives
(Penguin, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Pages browned, front cover clipped at top corner, a good working copy. 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C6499
Keywords: 9780140219456, women, women's lives, biography, domestic, sexual, women and work, female, experience, Janet Daly, Annie Williams, Annie Davison, Catherina Barnes, Maggie Fuller, Jean Mormont, Peggy Wood, Norah Kirk, Fiona McFarlane, Barbara Marsh, Pat Garland, Christine Buchan, Irene McIntosh, Linda Peffer, domestic, family, oral history, interviews, oral history interviews
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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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Harrison, J.F.C.
The Common People: A History from the Norman Conquest to the Present
(Flamingo, 2nd impression, 1989).
Paperback. Front cover slightly creased, otherwise very good. 445pp. Order No. NSBK-A3869
Keywords: 0006540201, people, history, Norman Conquest, common, crowd, religion, popular, demography, women, family, ideas, beliefs, peasant, artisan, industrial, British, Britain, English, England, crowd studies
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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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