Birkett, Dea.
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
(Basil Blackwell, rpt, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 300pp. Order No. NSBK-C1183
Keywords: 0631156046, Victorian, women travellers, spinster, Mary Kingsley, travel, nineteenth century, travelers, spinsters, spinsterhood, history, Isabella Bird, Amelia Edwards, explorers
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Backhouse, Janet.
The Lindisfarne Gospels:
(Phaidon, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11935
Keywords: 0714824615, Linisfarne, Holy Island, Lindisfarne Gospels, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, church, churches, Northumbria, illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, St Cuthbert, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Fuller, Margaret.
These Sad but Glorious Days: Dispatches from Europe, 1846-1850
(Yale UP, 1991).
Edited by Larry J Reynolds and Susan Belasco Smith. Hardback. Very good in edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-C8084
Keywords: 0300050380, Europe, Victorian, nineteenth century, dispatches, Margaret Fuller, woman writer, women writers, travel, Quirinal Palace, Mazzini, Giovanni Ossoli, Tiber Island, nursing, nurses
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Shriver, William P.
Immigrant Forces: Factors in the New Democracy
(The Presbyterian Department, 1913).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good+. ix + 277pp. Order No. NSBK-A13824
Keywords: B000RY9D3E, immigration, immigrants, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , democracy, Ellis Island, aliens
Price £32.00.
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Hollis, Wyndham, ed.
Mr Punch's Progress and Other Observations: A Salute to the Star of the Show by the Punch and Judy College of Professors
(Monkey Puzzle, 1987).
Very scarce. Booklet. Very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-F8544
Keywords: B001VIXIHW, Punch and Judy, Punch, Judy, shows, Punch and Judy Shows, Toby, Mr Punch, seaside, entertainment, history, Professor Glyn Edwards, Professor John Styles, Professor Rod Burnett, street entertainment, Professor Caz Frost, Professor Jingles, resorts, show, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, glove puppets, wooden puppets, wood puppets, Swazzle, showman, humour, children's entertainment, booths, booth, seafront, bottler, British, England, English, Britain, heritage, nostalgia, seaside entertainment, booklet
Price £17.00.
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Sayers, Peig.
An Old Woman's Reflections:
(OUP, rpt., 1978).
Translated from the Irish by Seamus Ennis and Introduced by W. R. Rodgers. Paperback. Very good. xiv + 131pp. Order No. NSBK-C4951
Keywords: 0192812394, women, woman, history, women's history, Ireland, Irish, Eire, Gaelic, Republic of Ireland, Southern Ireland, Great Blasket Island, County Kerry, oral history, storytelling, stories, tales, Peig Sayers
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Swaisland, Cecillie.
Servants and Gentlewomen to the Golden Land: The Emigration of Single Women from Britain to Southern Africa, 1820 - 1939
(Berg, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-A13388
Keywords: 0854968709, emigration, emigrants, single women, spinsters, South Africa, Boer War, Anglo-African War, South African, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century, colonies, Empire, imperialiam, colonialism
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Spence, Jeoffry.
Victorian and Edwardian Railways from Old Photographs:
(Batsford, 1975).
Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly marked dustwrapper creased / chipped at top. pp. Order No. NSBK-A14906
Keywords: 0713430443, railways, trains, steam trains, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, Edwardian, travel, transport, railways, history, locomotives
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Bradley, Helen.
And Miss Carter Wore Pink: Scenes from an Edwardian Childhood
(Joanthan Cape, rpt., 1971).
Hardback. Some browning to dustwrapper, otherwise very good. 31pp. Order No. NSBK-A10528
Keywords: 0224005812, Helen Bradley, Miss Carter, Northern, art, artists, paintings, painters, Britain, British, England, English, history, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th
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Sutherland, John.
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian
(OUP Clarendon, 1990).
A biography of Mary Ward: novelist; anti-suffragist; philanthropist; founder of Somerville College for women in Oxford; journalist during World War I. Hardback. Dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. ix + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C6392
Keywords: 9780198185871, women writers, novels, novelists, literature, Victorian, Edwardian, Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford University, biography, biographies, Mary Ward, women journalists, journalism, anti-suffrage, philanthropy, women philanthropists
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