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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Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan.
The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny:
(Book Club Associates, 1973).
Hardback. A good working copy in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 350pp. Order No. NSBK-C12373
Keywords: 0340126795, nanny, nursery, family, baby, motherhood, class, servant, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Man-Made World: or, Our Androcentric Culture
(T. Fisher Unwin, first UK edition, 1911).
Small green splash to front inner board. Overall good+, a solid copy for the collector. Hardback. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a little scratched, & with light blotching. Corners worn & top spine end slightly split. Else good+. 269pp. Order No. NSBK-A13725
Keywords: B00085ZQRE, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women writers, man-made world, men, masculinity, feminism, ethics, humanity, economics, education, women's emancipation, history, twentieth century, UK 1st editions, first editions
Price £80.00.
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Mitchell, David.
The Pankhursts:
(Edito-Service, 1970).
Hardback. Spine rubbed, otherwise very good. xi + 341pp. Order No. NSBK-C4185
Keywords: B0006C1KNI, Christabel Pankhurst, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, history, Edwardian, twentieth century, Votes for Women, suffrage, biography, biographies, English, England, Britain, British, politics, Women's Social and Political Union, WSPU, Charlotte Despard, suffragettes, Pethick-Lawrence, socialism
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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
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Waller, Jane and Vaughan-Rees, Michael.
Women in Uniform, 1939-45:
(Papermac, 1989).
Paperback. Near fine. xvi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12468
Keywords: 0333488962, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, World War Two, World War II, World War 2, Second World War, wars, warfare, twentieth century, 20th Century, uniform, clothing, dress, NAAFI, WAAFS, WRENS, Land army, Land girls, nurses, nursing, sisters, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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Drummond, James.
Upstairs to Downstairs: Advice to Servant Girls and Weary Mothers. Extracts from the Magazine of the Onward and Upward Association
(Aberdeen UP, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 88pp. Order No. NSBK-A13110
Keywords: 0080412041, advice, servant girls, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, mothers, motherhood, maternal
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
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Denvir, Bernard, ed.
The Impressionists at First Hand:
(Thames and Hudson, 1987).
195 illustrations, 17 in colour. Paperback. Very good. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A7169
Keywords: 0500202095, impressionists, impressionsims, art, art movements, artists, world, France, French, Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, photography, Zola
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Webb, Catherine, ed.
Industrial Co-operation: the Story of a Peaceful Revolution
(Co-op Union Ltd, 8th edition, 1919).
Hardback. Edges worn, otherwise good. xxii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-A4063
Keywords: B000HBVYJS, cooperation, co-operation, history, industry, industrial, Catherine Webb, co-operative movement, Britain, British, England, English, labour, Robert Owen, Rochdale Pioneers, co-operatives, wholesale, production, cooperation
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