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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Hetherington, H.
The Poor Man's Guardian, 1831 - 1835: Vol 4 only
(Merlin Press, 1969).
Volume IV only. A Reprint of the Original Journal with Introduction by Patricia Hollis. January 3rd 1835 to December 26th 1835. Hardback. A little light flecking to cloth, minor foxing to page edges, otherwise very good in slightly browned, slightly chipped dustwrapper. 377 - 800pp. Order No. NSBK-A15835
Keywords: Poor Man's Guardian, pre-Chartism, pre-Chartists, pre-Chartist, pre-Chartist movement, working classes, history, 19th century, nineteenth century, Henry Hetherington, radicalism, radicals, Britain, British, England, English, Patricia Hollis, Owenism, Robert Owen, Owenites, National Union of the Working Classes, Labour Theory of Value, Whigs, reformers, 1835, poor, history, poverty
Price £40.00.
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Semmel, Bernard.
The Methodist Revolution:
(Basic Books, rpt., 1974).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled dustwrapper. viii + 273pp. Order No. NSBK-A10779
Keywords: 043532795X, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, religious, religion, Protestants, Protestantism, Methodists, Methodism, Wesley, Victorian, nineteenth century, Christians, Christianity, Antinomianism, Arminianism, Dissent, Dissenters, nonconformists, nonconformity
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth: Passing Thoughts; Falsehood and Truth
(Baker & Scribner, 1846).
The works "Passing Thoughts" & "Falsehood and Truth" only, by Charlotte Elizabeth (Tonna). Very scarce. Contains (mysteriously) one extraneous page - from "Conformity", another of Elizabeth's works which is not included. Hardback. Small, with pieces missing from the gilt-decorated spine, corners worn, some light foxing, otherwise good, tight. 105; x + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-C5103
Keywords: B0008B8N6Y, Charlotte Elizabeth, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, history, women writers, woman, women's literature, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, religion, religious, works, writings, purity, sentiment, morality, female
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Clifford-Smith, J.L.
Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science: Manchester Meeting, 1879
(Longmans Green, 1880).
Hardback. Spine is rather worn with some loss to spine cover at both ends. Corners rubbed, original embossed cloth otherwise good, contents solid. 820pp. Order No. NSBK-C15306
Keywords: B00EBVKBRQ, Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, social history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, antiquarian
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Gilchrist, Mrs.
Mary Lamb:
(W. H. Allen, new edition, 1889).
Eminent Women Series. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with some wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-A14457
Keywords: B002B9FKZS, Mary Lamb, women writers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, history, literature, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism
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Gosden, P. H. J. H.
How They Were Taught:
(Basil Blackwell, 1969).
An Anthology of Contemporary Accounts of Learning and Teaching in England, 1800-1950. Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in browned, chipped dustwrapper. xii + 299pp. Order No. NSBK-A6041
Keywords: 0631113207, teaching, teachers, learning, schools, schooling, education, educational, England, English, history, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, board schools, voluntary schools, primary, secondary, sciences, education of women, women's education, experimental schools, teacher training, universities
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Enock, Esther E.
Frances Ridley Havergal: The Christian Poetess
(Pickering & Inglis, rpt., 1957).
Suitable for children. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, slightly torn dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-C5721
Keywords: 0720821630, Christainity, Christian, religion, religious, poets, poetess, poetesses, poets, poems, poem, hymns, hymn, Frances Ridley Havergal, literature, women's history, biography, biographical, life history, life histories, biographies, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, history, England, English, Oakhampton, Leamington
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St. John Ambulance Association, .
Home Nursing: the Authorized Textbook of the St. John Ambulance Association
(St. John Ambulance Association, 4th edition, 5th reprint, Oct. 1938).
Hardback. Covers a little soiled / darkened with some wear to white titles & motif, otherwise good, though with a few creased pages. 272pp. Order No. NSBK-A6772
Keywords: B000E7YF9G, St. John Ambulance Association, first aid, health, social history, twentieth century, ambulances, Britain, British, England, English, sickness, injured, injuries, caring for the sick, patients, advice books
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Basch, Francoise.
Relative Creatures: Victorian Women in Society and the Novel, 1837-1867
(Allen Lane, 1974).
Hardback. Some sun-fading to spine of dustwrapper, with newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise a good copy. xx + 360pp. Order No. NSBK-C4627
Keywords: 9780713904857, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, novels, novel, spinsters, spinster, history, wives, mothers, writing, society, social history, literature, social history, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, fiction, novelists, female, novelist, literary, England, English, Britain, British
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