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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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
Price £5.00.
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Lancaster, Bill and Mason, Tony.
Life and Labour in a Twentieth-Century City:
(Cryfield Press, 1986).
Paperback. Very good+. 372pp. Order No. NSBK-A10877
Keywords: urban history
Price £8.00.
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Butterworth, Neil.
Haydn: His Life and Times
(Midas, 2nd impress., 1978).
Paperback. Very good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A4395
Keywords: 0859361284, Haydn, music, history of music, musical, composer, Vienna, Mozart, eighteenth century, composers, classical
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McKay, Sinclair.
The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The History of the World War II Codebreaking Centre by the Men and Women Who Worked There
(Aurum, 2010).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. vi + 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A15737
Keywords: 9781845135393, codes, war, Second World War, wartime, code-breaking, history, Bletchley Park
Price £10.00.
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Peavy, Linda and Smith, Ursula.
Women in Waiting in the Westward Movement: Life on the Home Frontier
(Oklahoma UP, 1994).
Foreword by John Mack Faragher. Paperback. Fine. xvii + 381pp. Order No. NSBK-C12510
Keywords: 0806126191, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Westward Movement, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, American West, family, families, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Gray, F. du Plessix.
Rage & Fire: A Life of Louise Colet - Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse
(Hamish Hamilton, 1994).
Hardback. Stamped damaged, but the only obvious fault is a slightly soiled dustwrapper. Generally very good. 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C206
Keywords: 0241132568, Lousie Colet, Flaubert, Gustav Flaubert, mistress, French, France, French history, feminism, feminist, literature, French literature
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Waller, David.
The Magnificent Mrs Tennant: The Adventurous Life of Gertrude Tennant Victorian Grande Dame
(Yale UP, 2009).
Hardback. Fine in dw. ix + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C15375
Keywords: 9780300139358, Gertrude Tennant, Victorian, salons, nineteenth century
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Hareven, Tamara K. and Langenbach, Randolph.
Amoskeag: Life and Work in an American Factory-City in New England
(Methuen, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A3210
Keywords: 0416721605, city, industrial, Amoskeag, America, American, American history, labour history, labor history, Amoskeag, United States, USA manufacturing company, textile, Merrimack, New Hampshire, factory, immigration, oral history
Price £11.99.
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Coomes, David.
Dorothy L. Sayers: a Careless Rage for Life
(Lion Books, 1992).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good in dw. 242pp. Order No. NSBK-C1382
Keywords: 073240522X, Dorothy L. Sayers, biography, crime writer, literature, novel, novelist, woman writer, women writers
Price £4.00.
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