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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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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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
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Powell, Edgar and Trevelyan, G. M., eds.
The Peasant's Rising and the Lollards: A Collection of Unpublished Documents Forming an Appendix to England in the Age of Wycliffe
(Longmans, Green, 1899).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, minor rubbing to corners & fraying / splitting to spine ends, otherwise good. xiii + 81pp. Order No. NSBK-A14970
Keywords: B001NK2LEE, Lollards, Lollardy, Dissent, Wycliffe, peasants' rising, history, nonconformity, religion, religious, 14th century, fourteenth century, early modern, peasantry, documents, sources, Church, social disturbances, antiquarian
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Proud, E. Dorothea.
Welfare Work: Employers' Experiments for Improving Working Conditions in Factories
(G. Bell, 3rd edition, 1918).
Foreword by David Lloyd-George. Hardback. Ex-library with usual library stamps and stickers. some wear to edges, otherwise good. xx + 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C6760
Keywords: B000856JQQ, welfare, Great War, First World War, World War I, workers, working, factory system, factories, working conditions, women and work, working women, David Lloyd-George, social experiments, history, Catherine Helen Spence, E. Dorothea Proud, pay, wages, economic, economy, industry, industrial, twentieth century, antiquarian, factory legislation, factory labour, factory girls, labor
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Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
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Beamont, William.
Annals of the Lords of Warrington and Bewsey from 1587 to 1833: When Warrington Became a Parliamentary Borough. In Two Parts. Part I: Warrington. Part II: Bewsey. With Notices of Historical and Local Events
(Charles Simms, Manchester, Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1873).
Hardback. A little wear to corners, edges and spine ends, a little cracking internally at binding, otherwise good+, firm. xxiv + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-A13754
Keywords: B000WFVS9A, Warrington, Bewsey, Lords, history, 19th century, Victorian, nineteenth century, Boteler, Atherton, Lancashire, early modern, Dudley, Delamer, seventeenth century, eighteenth century, William Beamont, antiquarian
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Larned, Walter Cranston.
Churches and Castles of Medieval France:
(Sampson Low, Marston, 1895).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, some wear to edges & darkening / patchiness to spine. Otherwise good. viii + 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A14990
Keywords: B0008B0X6C, Middle Ages, medieval, castles, castle, history, medieval, mediaeval, France, French, chateau, chateaux, cathedrals, churches, church, religion, religious, antiquarian
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Selby, Walford D., ed.
Lancashire and Cheshire Records Preserved in the Public Record Office, London:
(Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, 1882).
Number 7 in the Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society Series. Part I of a two-part set. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, minor damage to fly leaf, otherwise good+ in original green/gilt decorated cloth. xlii + 222pp. Order No. NSBK-A11221
Keywords: B000HC77CK, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society, Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, local history, records, archives, archival, documents, North West England, England, English, Britain, British, manuscripts, documents, sources, antiquarian, parish history, parishes, parochial, Public Record Office, Walford D. Selby, Chester, Lancaster, courts, rolls, medieval, Middle Ages, early modern
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Hamilton, Janet.
Poems, Sketches & Essays:
(James Maclehose, Glasgow, 1870).
Works of Scottish working woman writer. Hardback. Gilt lettering. Light rubbing / scuffing / marking to green cloth, espec. at edges, a little splitting internally at spine, otherwise good, solid. xiv + 400pp. Order No. NSBK-A2445
Keywords: B001SHOSAM, Janet Hamilton, woman writer, women writers, Scotland, Scottish, Scots, poem, poetry, poet, poets, British, women, Britain, memorial edition, poems, Scot, Scotch, literature, collectible, antiquarian
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