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Rowbotham, Judith.
Good Girls Make Good Wives: Guidance for Girls in Victorian Fiction
(Blackwell, 1989).
Paperback. Some sunfading to covers, otherwise good+. viii + 301pp. Order No. NSBK-C4162
Keywords: 0631163964, wives, wife, girls, education, fiction, literature, Judith Rowbotham, Victorian, nineteenth century, childhood, middle class, middle classes, reading habits, domesticity, private sphere, separate spheres, femininity, feminine, novels, L.T. Meade, history, social control, Charlotte Mary Yonge, women
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Ramos-Poqui, Guillem.
The Technique of Icon Painting:
(Search Press, Burns & Oates, rpt, 1997).
Large format. Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-A14924
Keywords: 0855326875, iconography, art, techniques, technique of icon painting, history, sacred art, meaning, egg tempera technique, religion, religious, images, imagery, Catholicism, Virgin Mary
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Guedalla, Philip.
Bonnet and Shawl: An Album
(Hodder & Stoughton, n.d).
A series of biographical pieces. The first part (under the heading "Real") looks at Jane Welsh Carlyle, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Arnold, Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily Tennyson, Emily Palmerston. Then under a heading "Ideal" it presents (fictitious?) letters of Lady Muriel James, Sophia Swinburne & Julie de Goncourt. Hardback. Cover boards worn / faded, internally good. 204pp. Order No. NSBK-C3017
Keywords: B000HDMYRW, Bonnet, Shawl, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Catherine Gladstone, Mary Arnold, Mary Anne Disraeli, Emily Tennyson, Emily Palmerston
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Carr, Monica.
Monica Carr's Country Diary:
(Colour Books, 1997).
Paperback. Good. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C5234
Keywords: 0860769551, Monica Carr, country, countryside, diary, diaries, Mary Norton, Dunlavin, Farming Independent, farm, farming, Ireland, Irish, twentieth century
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Plowden, Alison.
Tudor Women: Queens and Commoners
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979).
Hardback. Light stain to top margin of pages, top of front board and interior of slightly wavy dustwrapper, otherwise a good copy. vii + 182pp. Order No. NSBK-C7052
Keywords: 0297775499, Tudor women, Tudors, women's history, woman, queens, commoners, medieval, middle ages, gender, Mary Tudor, Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, England, English, Britain, British, Early Modern, royalty, monarchs
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Stodart, M. A.
Female Writers: Thoughts on their Proper Sphere and on Their Powers of Usefulness
(Photocopy only of R.B. Seeley edition, 1842).
Hardback. Library photocopy only, not an original. In good, sturdy, black library binding. 203pp. Order No. NSBK-C13731
Keywords: women writers, nineteenth century, literature, women's literature, M. A. Stodart, education, literary, 19th century, female education, mental faculties, Mary Astell, Mary Wollstonecraft, 18th century, eighteenth century, Madame de Stael, Hannah More
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Mackenzie, Eileen.
The Findlater Sisters: Literature and Friendship
(John Murray, 1964).
A study of Mary & Jane Findlater, Scottish novelists at the turn of the century. Hardback. Internally very good in ripped / torn, faded and soiled dustwrapper. xiii + 150pp. Order No. NSBK-C411
Keywords: B0000CMEEQ, Mary Findlater, Jane Findlater, Scotland, novelists, Britain, British, history, sisters, women's history, novel, women writers, woman writer
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Bellringer, Alan W. & Jones C.B.
The Victorian Sages: an Anthology of Prose
(Dent, rpt, 1975).
Paperback. Covers slightly stained, otherwise good. xvii + 241pp. Order No. NSBK-A1890
Keywords: 0460117300, prose, sage, Victorian, essay, Disraeli, Carlyle, Kingsley, Mill, Arnold, Ruskin, Pater, Huxley, Darwin, Morris, 0 460 11730 0, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Griffiths, Sian, ed.
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Forty Women Whose Ideas Shape the Modern World
(MUP, 1996).
With an introduction by Helena Kennedy. Paperback. Crease to spine, otherwise very good. v + 282pp. Order No. NSBK-C12698
Keywords: 0719049547, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's work, women and work, employment, glass, ceiling, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, world, Times Higher Education Supplement, Camille Paglia, Marina Warner, bell hooks, Anita Desai, Mary Warnock, Catharine Mackinnon, Mary Daly, Kay Davies, Jane Goodall, Julie Theriot, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Jacqueline Rose, Ann Oakley, Marilyn Strathern, Shirley Williams
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Sutherland, John.
Mrs Humphry Ward: Eminent Victorian, Pre-eminent Edwardian
(OUP Clarendon, 1990).
A biography of Mary Ward: novelist; anti-suffragist; philanthropist; founder of Somerville College for women in Oxford; journalist during World War I. Hardback. Dustwrapper slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. ix + 432pp. Order No. NSBK-C6392
Keywords: 9780198185871, women writers, novels, novelists, literature, Victorian, Edwardian, Somerville College, Oxford, Oxford University, biography, biographies, Mary Ward, women journalists, journalism, anti-suffrage, philanthropy, women philanthropists
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