Rendall, Jane.
Women in an Industrialising Society, 1750-1880:
(Blackwell, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-C7322
Keywords: 9780631153030, Jane Rendall, industrialisation, industrialization, industry, women, woman, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, 18th, 19th, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, work, employment, labor, labour, domestic, domesticity, economics, economy, economic, women and work
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
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Harpwood, Diane.
Tea and Tranquillisers: the Diary of a Happy Housewife
(Virago, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. 164pp. Order No. NSBK-C15791
Keywords: 9780860681243, domesticity, housewives, family, motherhood, fiction
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Anderson, Christopher.
The Domestic Constitution or the Family Circle: the Source and Test of National Stability
(W.P. Kennedy, Edinburgh, new & improved edition, 1847).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, embossed cloth rubbed / slightly marked, a little splitting top spine end & internally at spine, otherwise good, tight. xviii + 464pp. Order No. NSBK-A5355
Keywords: B000W6Q560, domestic, domesticity, contemporary comment, history, Britain, British, England, English, family, families, nineteenth century, domestic constitution, national stability, nation, nationhood, parenthood, civilisation, parents, instruction, advice books, moral, moral constitution, mores, morality, obedience, domestic education, domestic government, obligation, right, duties, duty, responsibility, responsibilities, domestic circles, reason, rational, religion, religious, educating children, antiquarian
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
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Braithwaite, B.; Walsh N.; and Davies, G, eds.
Ragtime to Wartime: The Best of Good Housekeeping, 1922-1939
(Leopard, rpt., 1995).
Hardback. Very good in lightly soiled, lightly stained dustwrapper. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C5268
Keywords: 0752900455, Good Housekeeping, magazines, periodicals, women's reading, media, 1920s, World War Two, World War II, Second World War, Thirties Depression, articles, advertisements, domesticity
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Stodart, M.A.
Every Day Duties: in Letters to a Young Lady
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1840).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, maroon library binding, a little scuffed at the back. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13755
Keywords: B0008CKDZC, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, femininity, feminine, advice books, prayer, women's history, religion, private sphere, domesticity, politeness, manners, home, Sabbath, household, servants, social history, etiquette, religious
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White, Florence, ed.
How to Wash Clothes at Home: Containing Simple and Complete Instructions
(Florence White, 1901).
An advice book, recommending the best methods of carrying out laundry work. A very interesting one of its kind, with illustrations and lots of detail of interest to the social historian. Paperback. Original covers slightly soiled and creased at edges, otherwise good+. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-C15121
Keywords: clothes, clothing, washing clothes, laundry, laundry work, working women, domesticity, antiquarian, social history, ironing, starching, booklets, boiling, advice books, linen, booklet, booklets
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Moat, Florence and Sumner, Josephine.
The Concise Series of Practical Housecraft: I. Housewifery
(Longmans, Green, 1925).
Paperback. Original covers browned, spotted and worn. Spine split, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-C15120
Keywords: B00174ZJ6I, booklets, booklet, housewifery, domesticity, history, antiquarian, domestic, Florence Moat, housework, housewives, washing, cleaning, shopping, interwar, inter-war
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Brittain, Vera.
Envoy Extraordinary: A Study of Vijaya Pandit and her Contribution to Modern India
(George Allen and Unwin, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with marks left by usual library stickers, otherwise good. 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C6260
Keywords: B0000CMONA, women's history, Vera Brittain, India, Indian, Vijaya Pandit, woman, Nehru, Gandhi, politics, Asia, Asian, ethnicity, women and politics. twentieth century
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