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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Pfeiffer, Emily.
Women and Work: an Essay Treating on the Relation to Health and Physical Development of the Higher Education of Girls, and the Intellectual or More Systematised Efffort of Women
(Photocopy of Trubner & Co text, of 1888).
Please note this is a photocopy only of the text in a library binding. Hardback. Photocopy only in library binding. A few pages slightly wavy, otherwise good condition. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C16016
Keywords: women, history, Victorian, girls, 19th century, nineteenth century, health, education, work
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Williams, Neville.
Powder and Paint: A History of the Englishwoman's Toilet, Elizabeth I - Elizabeth II
(Longmans Green, 1957).
Hardback. Grey cloth darkened, but a good solid copy, in soiled, chipped, edgeworn dustwrapper. xiii + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A15817
Keywords: B0000CJPXG, fashion, beauty, cosmetics, history, make-up, perfume, hairdressing, social history, women's, coiffure, salons
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Symes, Ruth A.
It Runs in the Family:
(The History Press, 2013).
In the quest to uncover our family history, we turn to written records, the family album and even heirlooms. However, they can often be difficult to interpret and sometimes pose more questions than they answer: Why didn't my ancestors smile for the camera? Why did great-grandfather wear a beard while his sons were clean-shaven? Why is my great-grandmother holding flowers in this photograph? Drawing on evidence from social history, women's history, and the histories of photography, art and fashion, and using examples from the lowly as well as the famous, Ruth Symes explores many aspects of ordinary life in the past - from the state of the nation's teeth, to the legal and economic connotations of wearing a wedding ring and even the business of keeping a dog. This fascinating volume aims to help family historians get to know their elusive ancestors by deciphering the wealth of personal and historical clues contained in photographs, documents and artefacts. Paperback. New book, fine. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-D15428
Keywords: 9780752497020, family history, family, families, Ruth Symes, genealogy, geneaolgical, social history, evidence, sources, research, women, old photographs, photography
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Brandon, Ruth.
The New Women and the Old Men: Love, Sex and the Woman Question
(Papermac, rpt, 2000).
Paperback. Base of book slightly bent, otherwise very good. viii + 294pp. Order No. NSBK-C1182
Keywords: 0436067226, love, sex, woman question, women's rights, sexuality, New Woman, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, Havelock Ellis, Olive Schreiner
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Poor Law Commissioners, .
Reports of Special Assistant Poor Law Commissioners: on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture, 1843
(Frank Cass, 1968 impression of 1843 text).
Hardback. Some pencil annotation mainly to endpapers, front endpaper has small piece cut-out, otherwise good+, a solid copy. 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C15750
Keywords: 9780714622149, poor law, poverty, reports, commissioners, women, children, history, agriculture, agricultural, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, work, employment
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Francis, Richard.
Ann the Word: The Story of Ann Lee: Female Messiah, Mother of the Shakers, The Woman Clothed with the Sun
(Fourth Estate, 2000).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 388pp. Order No. NSBK-C6123
Keywords: 1857029690, Ann Lee, Female Messiah, religion, religious, Shakers, Shakerism, woman clothed with the sun, women's history, gender, Manchester, nineteenth century, Victorian, America, American, United States, USA, Shaking Quakers, Quakers, Quakerism, cults, millennium, New York, Jacob Kidney, Doorkeeper to the Commissioners for Detecting Conspiracies, Square House, Harvard, Massachusetts, New England, spiritual, spiritualism, faith, belief
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Monroy, Douglas.
Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California
(California UP, 1993).
Paperback. Very good+. xviii + 337pp. Order No. NSBK-A12335
Keywords: 0520082753, Mexico, Mexican, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, California, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, eighteenth, twentieth
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Muggeridge, Kitty and Adam, Ruth.
Beatrice Webb: A Life, 1858-1943
(Academy Chicago, rpt, 1983).
Paperback. Marginal ink notation (very marginal), front endpapers slightly splashed, otherwise good. 271 + vipp. Order No. NSBK-C5304
Keywords: 0897330889, Beatrice Webb, Webb, Webbs, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, women's history, Fabian society, left, Sudney Webb, London School of Economics, The New Statesman, social reform, Modern Welfare State, journals, diary, diaries, socialists, socialism, Stalin, Russia, women's movement, feminism, feminist, Herbert Spencer, Balfour, Haldane, G. B. Shaw
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