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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Cottrell, Robert. D.
The Grammar of Silence: A Reading of Marguerite de Navarre's Poetry
(Catholic Uni. America, 1986).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C4382
Keywords: 0813206154, Marguerite de Navarre, poetry, poets, women poets, France, French, women writers, Renaissance, literature, literary criticism, early modern history, history, early modern, fifteenth century, sixteent century, mystical literature, 15th century, 16th century, Christian poetry, Henry II
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Cushing, P.H.
University Extension in Southport, 1874-1974:
(Liverpool, 1974).
Pamphlet. Good. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-A12294
Keywords: 0950426407, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, university, university extension, Southport, twentieth cnetury, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, pamphlet
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Rossetti, William Michael, ed.
The Poetical Works of Mrs Felicia Hemans:
(E. Moxon, no date).
Hardback. Pictorial boards, spine damaged, cloth soiled, edges worn, otherwise a good solid copy with gilt page edges. xxviii + 595pp. Order No. NSBK-C15618
Keywords: B072BB17KJ, Felicia Hemans, poems, poetry, women writers, sonnets, hymns, Mrs Hemans, nineteenth century, Britain, British, women, poets, poet, antiquarian
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Fraser, George MacDonald.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light:
(Collins Harvill, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in very slightly torn dustwrapper. 367pp. Order No. NSBK-Z14699
Keywords: imperial wars, Flashman, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, India, Indian, Empire, British Empire
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Barnes, H. Gorell and Montmorency, J. E. G. de.
The Divorce Commission: The Majority and Minority Reports Summarised, with Appendices on the History of Divorce; Foreign and Colonial Divorce Laws; Proposed Divorce Circuits in England and Wales; Names of Women after Divorce
(P. S. King, 1912).
Prefaces by Guthrie and Dibdin. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to edges, otherwise good. xvi + 95pp. Order No. NSBK-A13882
Keywords: B000WFGD0O, divorce, marriage, break-down of marriage, Divorce Commission, reports, social history, divorce circuits, legal, law, family, twentieth century
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Dubois, Ellen Carol.
Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage:
(Yale UP, 1997).
Hardback. Light shelfwear to dustwear, otherwise good. x + 353pp. Order No. NSBK-C5579
Keywords: 0300065620, Harriot Stanton Blatch, suffrage, vote, Votes for Women, women's rights, women's movement, Harriet, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Fabian, socialism, socialists, American, America, United States, USA, Britain, British, feminism, feminists, Edwardian, twentieth century, New York, National Women's Party, women's history, American Suffrage Movement, enfranchisement, Rights for Women, women's politics, women and politics, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, Fabians
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Ray, John.
The Growth of Schools: 1750 to the present Day
(Thomas Nelson and Son, rpt., 1977).
Studies in Modern History. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A13743
Keywords: 0174350104, eighteenth century, 18th, schools, schooling, education, educational, teachers, teaching, pupils, students, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Jefferies, Richard.
Hodge and his Masters:
(Macgibbon and Gee, rpt., 1966 (1880)).
Volume Two. The Fitzroy Edition. Hardback. Good in soiled dustwrapper. 146pp. Order No. NSBK-A13132
Keywords: B0000CN9GE, Hodge, Richard Jefferies, The Standard, agricultural, agriculture, farmers, farming, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Rogers, Stanley.
Barenetha Rock: A True Drama of the Sea
(W. H. Allen, 1957).
Hardback. Spine slightly bumped, otherwise very good. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-A4799
Keywords: B0000CJOWD, Barenetha, sea, maritime, naval, history, America, American, USA, United States, ship, shipping, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, London, shipwreck
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