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
Price £24.00.
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Mackeith, Margaret.
Shopping Arcades: A Gazetteer of Extant British Arcades, 1817 - 1939
(Mansell Publishing, 1985).
Hardback. Some yellowing to boards, otherwise good+. viii + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A13518
Keywords: 0720117585, architecture, shopping, shopping arcades, shopping malls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, leisure, retail, retailing, social history, shops, architectural, shop design, consumerism, consumer, buying, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, twentieth century, inter-war
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Ferra, Bartomeu.
Chopin and George Sand in the Cartuja de Valldemosa:
(Palma de Majorca, 1932).
English Translation by James Webb. Paperback. Covers mottled and a little tatty, otherwise good. 39pp. Order No. NSBK-A11210
Keywords: B000HC1N9S, Chopin, George Dand, Cartuja de Valldemosa, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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McDowell, R.B.
Irish Public Opinion, 1750 - 1800:
(Faber and Faber, 1944).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, cloth faded with ink splashes to rear, otherwise good. 306pp. Order No. NSBK-A16019
Keywords: B0006D9N8Q, Ireland, Irish, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, public opinion, French Revolution, American Revolution
Price £20.00.
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George, M. Dorothy.
English Political Caricature to 1792: A Study of Opinion and Propaganda
(Clarendon Press, 1959).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good + in tattered and torn dustwrapper. xii + 237 + 96 platespp. Order No. NSBK-A15527
Keywords: B005VYUFIC, drawings, caricatures, politics, political, opinions, press, media, eighteenth century, seventeenth century, Dorothy M. George
Price £48.00.
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Birkett, Dea.
Spinsters Abroad: Victorian Lady Explorers
(Basil Blackwell, rpt, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. xi + 300pp. Order No. NSBK-C1183
Keywords: 0631156046, Victorian, women travellers, spinster, Mary Kingsley, travel, nineteenth century, travelers, spinsters, spinsterhood, history, Isabella Bird, Amelia Edwards, explorers
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Lapping, Brian and Radice, Giles.
More Power to the People: Young Fabian Essays on Democracy in Britain
(Longmans, rpt., 1968).
Paperback. Good+. viii + 196pp. Order No. NSBK-A12928
Keywords: B0000CO5MI, Fabians, essays, socialism, socialists, people, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
Price £6.00.
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Pinion, F.B. ed.
Thomas Hardy and the Modern World: A Symposium
(Thomas Hardy Society, 1974).
Papers Presented at the 1973 Summer School. Paperback. Light soiled / yellowing to covers, otherwise very good. ix + 161pp. Order No. NSBK-A15816
Keywords: 9780904398045, Thomas Hardy, writers, fiction, literature, fiction, Thomas Hardy Society
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Backhouse, Janet.
The Lindisfarne Gospels:
(Phaidon, rpt., 1991).
Paperback. Very good. 96pp. Order No. NSBK-A11935
Keywords: 0714824615, Linisfarne, Holy Island, Lindisfarne Gospels, religion, religious, Christians, Christianity, church, churches, Northumbria, illuminated manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon, St Cuthbert, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Pinto-Duschinsky, Michael.
Political Thought of Lord Salisbury, 1854 - 68:
(Constable, 1967).
Hardback. Light orange / white staining to cloth, ex library with usual library stamps, otherwise good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A15921
Keywords: 9780094514805, Lord Salisbury, Victorian, nineteenth century, politics
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