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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Saunders, Beatrice.
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough: Her Life and Times
(Kaye Adlington, 1985).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good+ in creased dustwrapper. 146pp. Order No. NSBK-C9878
Keywords: 0946420076, Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, duchesses, classes, aristocrats, aristocracy, nobility, nobles, seventeenth century, 17th, Britain, British, England, English, history, Sandridge, St Albans, Sarah Jennings
Price £8.00.
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Chisholm, Kate.
Fanny Burney: her Life, 1752 - 1849
(Chatto & Windus, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xi + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C2834
Keywords: 070116378X, Fanny Burney, Evelina, blue stockings, women writers, King's Lynn, George III, the novel, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £3.00.
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Mackenzie, Norman and Jeanne, eds.
The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Volume Two, 1892-1905: All the Good Things of Life
(Virago, 1983).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xv + 376pp. Order No. NSBK-C6087
Keywords: 0860682102, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, the Webbs, social reform, Edwardian, Victorian, LSE, London School of Economics, poor, poverty, trade unionism, local government, state, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, diaries, diary, Virago
Price £9.00.
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Dunbar, Janet.
The Early Victorian Woman: Some Aspects of her Life (1837-57)
(George G Harrap, 1953).
Hardback. Internally good, covers dull, stained and worn. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12604
Keywords: B0000CIGBP, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
Price £9.50.
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Maurice, C. Edmund, ed.
Life of Octavia Hill: as Told in her Letters
(Macmillan, rpt, 1914).
Hardback. Some foxing to early pages, minor yellow highlighting to text, rubbing to edges and spine ends, otherwise a good solid copy. vii + 591pp. Order No. NSBK-C4485
Keywords: B01M9FUK1S, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, autobiographies, autobiography, letters, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, working class, working classes
Price £22.00.
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Despard, Annabelle, ed.
A Woman's Place: Women, Domesticity and Private Life
(Agder College, Faculty of Arts, Kristiansand, Norway, 1998).
Signed by the author. Paperback. Minor soiling to covers, otherwise very good. 219pp. Order No. NSBK-C15171
Keywords: 9788271173753, domesticity, women, private sphere, domestic, Agder College, Faculty of Arts, essays, Kristiansand, Norway, Norwegian, history
Price £30.00.
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Gray, Tony.
A Peculiar Man: a Life of George Moore, Bestselling Irish Author, 1852-1933
(Sinclair-Stevenson, 1996).
Hardback. Very good in slightly marked dustwrapper. vii + 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A3494
Keywords: 1856195783, George Moore, Ireland, Irish, author, writer
Price £8.00.
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Kalra, S.S.
Daughters of Tradition: Adolescent Sikh Girls and Their Accommodation to Life in British Society
(Diana Balbir, 1980).
Paperback. Mottling to front cover, otherwise good. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-C13827
Keywords: aolescents, adolescence, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Sikhs, boys, girls
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Smith, Ray Campbell.
Fresh Watercolour: Bring Light and Life to Your Painting
(David and Charles, 1991, England).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-F5529
Keywords: 0715397915, ray smith, ray campbell smith, watercolours, watercolour, fresh watercolour, watercolourist, watercolouring, composition, technique, subjects, perspective, art, landscape, waterscape, waterscapes, artist, artists, artistic, mountains, RSA, BSP, society painters, british, britain, england, english, UK, great britain, great british, paintings
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