Harrison, Shirley.
Sylvia Pankhurst: A Crusading Life 1882-1960
(Aurum Press, 2003).
Hardback. Small stain on top front edge and top of dustwrapper, otherwise very good. viii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-D7899
Keywords: 9781854109057, Pankhursts, Pugh, politics, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, militants, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th, Sylvia, Christabel, women's history, Emmeline, the vote, women's rights, the women's movement, emancipation, woman, woman's, womans
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Stopes, Marie.
Sleep:
(Chatto & Windus, 1956).
Hardback. Ex library, good. ix + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C402
Keywords: B0000CJC4Q, Marie Stopes, women's history, sleep, insomnia, advice
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Renton, Alice.
Tyrant or Victim: a History of the British Governess
(Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A15062
Keywords: 0297811681, education, governess, governesses, teaching, women and work, history, teachers, women
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Webb, Mary.
Precious Bane:
(Virago, rpt., 1994).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C5952
Keywords: 0860680630, Mary Webb, Precious Bane, Virago, Viragos, literature, literary, novels, novelists, fiction, Shropshire, twentieth century, women writers, woman writer
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Mumford, Elizabeth.
Whistler's Mother: The Life of Anna McNeill Whistler
(Hutchinson, 1939).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, boards and page edges darkened, otherwise a good solid copy. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C15943
Keywords: B00085PBVA, Anna McNeill Whistler, biographies, biography, women
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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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Stanford, Peter.
The She-Pope: a Quest for the Truth Behind the Mystery of Pope Joan
(Heinemann, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C2661
Keywords: 0434024589, Pope Joan, popery, Catholicism, Catholic, priesthood, legend, women, history, women's history, religion
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Calder, Jenni.
The Victorian Home:
(Book Club, 1977).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-C3742
Keywords: 0713408170, domestic sphere, housing, home, domesticity, women, woman, housing, Victorian, nineteenth century, homes, family, Jenni Calder, Britain, British, England, English
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Cupples, Mrs George.
Hugh Wellwood's Success: or, Where There's a Will There's a Way. A Tale for the Young
(T. Nelson, rpt, 1903).
Hardback. Pages browned and a little shakey at spine but holding. Minor wear to spine and corners, otherwise good in original blue and red boards. 72pp. Order No. NSBK-A15125
Keywords: B000S5DJS2, Mrs George Cupples, fiction, Victorian, Edwardian, women writers
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Symes, Ruth A.
Family First: Tracing Relationships in the Past
(Pen and Sword, 2015).
Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents - these are the relationships that structure the family tree and fascinate the family historian. But how much do we really know about how our ancestors lived out these multiple roles? Buffeted this way and that by economic developments, legal changes, medical advances, Two World Wars, the rise of the Welfare State, women's emancipation and many other factors, relationships between members of our family in the past were subtly different to those of today and continually transforming. This book is both a social history of the period 1800-1950 and a practical guide on how to set about tracing and better understanding the relationships between members of your own family. What did it mean to be a father in this period, but also, how might you discover the father of an ancestor if his name is not mentioned on the birth certificate? What common ideas were held about the role of wives and mothers, but also, how were multiple births, stillbirths, abortions and infanticides dealt with in the records? What factors might have influenced the size of your ancestor's family, but also why were its children named as they were? Did pecking order in a family matter, but also, was it legal to marry a cousin, or the sister of a deceased wife? How long could people expect to live, but also what records can tell you more about the circumstances of your ancestors' last years? A final chapter considers relationships with neighbours, friends and club associates. Hardback. New book, fine in dustwrapper. 223pp. Order No. NSBK-C15530
Keywords: 9781473833883, family relationships, family trees, geneaology, geneaological, social history, ancestors, tracing ancestors, fathers, mothers, siblings, cousins, women, welfare state, infants, clubs, grandparents
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