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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Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
Price £19.00.
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Sackett, Terence.
British Life A Century Ago: Images from the Francis Frith Collection
(Frith Book Company Limited, rpt., 2001).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Very good. 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A12072
Keywords: 1859372139, photos, photography, photographs, Francis Frith, photographers, photography, images, pictures, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £9.00.
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Lindsay, Jack.
William Morris: His Life and Work
(Constable, 1975).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, well-used / thumbed in slightly worn dustwrapper. xi + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-A3665
Keywords: 0094600406, Morris, William Morris, nineteenth century, Victorian, history, Britain, British, England, English, socialism, socialist, painter, art, print, Anglo-Catholicism, Ruskin, The Firm, The Arts and Crafts Movement
Price £6.99.
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Summerhayes, Martha.
Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman
(Nebraska UP, 1979).
Introduction by Dan L. Thrapp. Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 397pp. Order No. NSBK-C12708
Keywords: 0803291051, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, army, military, soldiers, wives, wife
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Rooper, T.G.
School and Home Life: Essays and Lectures on Current Educational Topics
(A. Brown and Sons, 1899).
Hardback. Light wear to edges and a few splashes to back board, otherwise a good+ copy with minor annotation, mainly to margins. 479pp. Order No. NSBK-A7695
Keywords: B00088SERU, education, educational, essays, T. G. Rooper, social history, schools, schooling, teachers, teaching, training, elementary schools, children, child, childhood, Britain, British, England, English, Yorkshire, school boards, inspectors, schools inspectors, school inspector, technical schools, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £4.00.
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Cobbett, William.
Advice to Young Men: and (incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, A Bachelor, A Lover, A Husband, A Father, A Citizen, or a Subject
(Ward, Lock and Co, ?).
With notes and a life of the author. Hardback. Red decorated boards worn and spine ends torn, internally good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13089
Keywords: William Cobbett, advice, men, males, masculinity, boys, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Perryman, Nigel.
Brave New Britain: Francis Frith's Method of Post-War Life
(Frith Book Company, 2002).
Hardback. Good+ with chip to dustwrapper. 125pp. Order No. NSBK-A12264
Keywords: 1859375642, Francis Frith, post war, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, photos, photographs, pictures, images
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Brooke, Stopford A., ed.
Life and Letters of Fred W. Robertson: Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton, 1847-53
(Henry S. King, rpt (People's Edit), 1874).
Hardback. Corners fraying, overall scuffing, internal splitting at spine, otherwise internally good. xxiv + 351pp. Order No. NSBK-A1595
Keywords: B001F86Y2O, Fred W. Robertson, Trinity Chapel, Brighton, Sussex, letters, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, religion, cleric, clerical
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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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