Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2004 facsimile of 1918 text).
Clementina Black (1854 - 1922) was a campaigner committed to improving the plight of working women. In this work of 1918, she 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'. Examples of material included: 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. Paperback. New book, fine. x + 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C7548
Keywords: 0954476123, 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, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Portrayer reprints, Portrayer facsimiles, new titles
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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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Besant, Annie.
An Autobiography:
(3rd impression with new preface, second edition, 1908).
Illustrated. Hardback. Fly leaf loose, frontispiece and intro pages shakey, splitting internally at spine, otherwise a good working copy with wear to edges. 368pp. Order No. NSBK-C15764
Keywords: Annie Besant, memoir, autobiography, religion, women's history, religious, theosophy, life story, autobiographies, antiquarian
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Wilson, Barbara Ker, ed.
Everyone Mattered: The Life and Times of Dame Kitty Anderson
(The Chandos Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C6864
Keywords: 0954531108, Dame Kitty Anderson, education, educational, schools, schooling, NCLS, Royal Holloway College, headmistress, headmistresses, teaching, teachers, women and work, women's work, childhood, children, twentieth century, Dames, Founder's Day, Margaret Ghilchik, Joan Clanchy, Olive Mellor, Erica Brostoff, schooldays, Britain, British, England, English, history, women's history, Kay Moore, Caroline M Barron, Katharine McMahon, Ann Thomas, Janet Sondheimer, women's education
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Pinchbeck, Ivy.
Women Workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750 - 1850:
(George Routledge, 1930).
Hardback. A little splitting / weakening internally at spine, edges slightly worn and cloth a little rubbed - otherwise a good copy. x + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-C9033
Keywords: B001P165SY, women workers, women and work, industry, industrialisation, Industrial Revolution, labour, working class, occupations, factories, mines, Ivy Pinchbeck, history, 18th century, eighteenth century, 19th century, nineteenth century, mining, hand loom weavers, domestic industries, trade, labor, labourers, textiles, women's history, factory, factories, economy, economic
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Chapkis, Wendy.
Beauty and Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
(The Women's Press, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. 214pp. Order No. NSBK-A9741
Keywords: 0704340895, women, women's history, politics, political appearance, faces, make up, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, dress, ugliness, ugly, beautiful, skin
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Mather, F.C.
Chartism:
(Historical Association, 1965).
In pamphlet form. Covers browned, otherwise good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A1167
Keywords: B0000CMRNV, Chartism, Chartist movement, history, chartists, Britain, British, England, English, radicals, radicalism, universal suffrage, pamphlet
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Parsons, Elsie Clews.
The Journal of a Feminist: Elsie Clews Parsons
(Thoemmes Press, 1994).
With a new introduction and notes by Margaret C. Jones. Paperback. Very good. xxxvi + 108pp. Order No. NSBK-C5993
Keywords: 9781855062504, Elsie Clews Parsons, feminism, feminists, women's history, females, woman, patriarchy, abortion, careers, divorce, laws, legal, sexuality, ageism, gender, nineteenth century, twentieth cnetury, women's rights, rights for women, American, America, biography, journals, biographies, life histories, life history, United States, USA
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Smith, Clifford P.
Sketches from the Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science:
(Christian Science Publ., 1934).
Historical and Biographical Papers Series. Paperback. Covers slightly thumbed, otherwise good. vi + 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C2053
Keywords: B0006AMHUA, Mary Baker Eddy, Eddy, Christian Science, Christian Scientist, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, religion, women's history
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