Walker, Carole.
A Saviour of Living Cargoes: the Life and Work of Caroline Chisholm
(Wolds Publishing, first UK edition, 2010).
Caroline Chisholm's philanthropic work was of lasting benefit to British emigrants and colonies - to Australia in particular. In New South Wales, she found shelter and employment for female immigrants and pressed officials to adopt her schemes for settling families on the land. In London, she arranged free passages for emancipists' wives and children and encouraged families to emigrate to Australia. In Victorian goldfields, she provided accommodation for the needy traveller. Tireless and resourceful, she cared little for personal reward or position; and by her own endeavours and careful persuasion, she demonstrated her faith in people, the strength of womanhood, and the need to protect the vulnerable and help working people and their families. This biography casts new light on her life and achievements. Paperback. Brand new, mint condition. xvi + 239pp. Order No. NSBK-C14738
Keywords: 9780956472403, Caroline Chisholm, Australia, pioneers, Australian, women travellers, biography, biographies, women, history, nineteenth century, 19th century, immigration, migration, emigration, colonialism, imperialism, Carole Walker, India, Indian, emigrants, philanthropy, New South Wales, colonies, women's history, Victorian
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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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Wheatley, Vera.
The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau:
(Secker & Warburg, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a good working copy in chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 421pp. Order No. NSBK-C608
Keywords: B0006D6W9Y, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Harriet Martineau, deaf, deafness
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Hakim, Catherine.
Social Change and Innovation in the Labour Market:
(OUP, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xvii + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-A12473
Keywords: 019829381X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, labor, work, social change, employment, twentietrh century, 20th, census, women's work
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Stuart, Dorothy Margaret.
The English Abigail:
(Macmillan, 1946).
Hardback. Ex library with minor marks left by stickers, edges worn, otherwise good. 221pp. Order No. NSBK-C3359
Keywords: B0007IW8V0, abigail, domestic service, servant, women adn work, women's work, literature, novel, fiction
Price £20.00.
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Whyte, Edna Gardner.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography
(Orion, 1991).
With Ann L. Cooper. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C5582
Keywords: 0517576856, Edna Gardner Whyte, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, flight, aviators, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, pilots, pilot, military, Ninety Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, women's work, women and work, America, American, USA, United States, flying, flight, flying machines
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Pitcher, Harvey.
When Miss Emmie Was in Russia: English Governesses Before, During and After the October Revolution
(Readers Union, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled/rubbed dustwrapper. x + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C8392
Keywords: governess, women's work, teaching, Russia, October Revolution, Miss Emmie, women travellers, Bolsheviks, revolution, Russian Revolution
Price £8.00.
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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
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Mackenzie, Suzanne.
Visible Histories: Women and Environments in a Post-War British City
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+ in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 217pp. Order No. NSBK-C12005
Keywords: 0773507124, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, work, women's work, women and work, employment, city, cities, towns, environments, Brighton
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Leadbeater, Eliza.
Handspinning:
(Studio Vista, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly edgeworn dustwrapper. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C9765
Keywords: 0289705983, handspinning, spinning, spinning wheels, industry, women's work, woman, history, women's history, women and work, domestic industry
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