Hall, Catherine, McClelland, K & Rendall, Jane.
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867
(CUP, 2000).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A8593
Keywords: 9780521576536, class, race, gender, Victorian, British, British History, women's history, Reform Act, Britain, England, English, Jane Rendall, Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, politics, democracy, political
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Tims, Margaret.
Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860 - 1935: a Centenary Study
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A8955
Keywords: B0000CKYPE, Jane Addams, Hull House, women's history, Chicago, American women, USA, United States of America, social work, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, pacifism, pacifists, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winners, social reformers, philanthropy, philanthropists
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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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Gardner, Alice.
A Short History of Newnham College Cambridge:
(Bowes and Bowes, 1921).
Hardback. A little soiling and splashing to blue cloth, spine faded, otherwise good and firm. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15726
Keywords: Cambridge, women, Newnham College, history, social history, Oxbridge, women's education, stored as antiquarian
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Wood, Ethel M.
The Pilgrimage of Perseverance:
(Nat. Counc. Soc. Services, 1949).
Hardback. Boards slightly marked, otherwise good in soiled, torn / repaired dustwrapper. x + 90pp. Order No. NSBK-C2324
Keywords: B0007IV4QE, social services, civil service, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history, philanthropy
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Surman, Phyllis.
Eliza of Otmoor:
(Oxprint, 1976).
Scarce. Paperback. Covers soiled, with a little bumping to corners, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise a good copy. 49pp. Order No. NSBK-C15833
Keywords: stored with the booklets, booklet, Oxford, Oxfordshire, Otmoor, women's history, family history, Islip, rural, villages, social history, village, Eliza of Otmoor, Coggins, farming
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Cobbe, Frances Power.
Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women
(Portrayer, 2002 rpt of 1868 article).
First appeared in Fraser's Magazine, Dec 1868. No 2 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 22pp. Order No. NSBK-C6302
Keywords: social history, Frances Power Cobbe, Victorian, nineteenth century, women, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, philanthropy, philanthropists, women's rights, women's movement, suffrage, woman suffage, women's suffrage, London National Society for Women's Suffrage, feminists, feminist, feminism, family history, families, Married Women's Property Act, law, legal, marital relations, marital law, property holders, property owners, married women, husbands, wives, married couples, domesticity, wife, laws, Fraser's Magazine, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Forbes, Robert.
Sixty Years of Medical Defence:
(Medical Defence Union, 1948).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, wear to boards and damage to spine & fly leaf, but a good solid working copy. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A6579
Keywords: B0000CJA05, medical claims, medical defence, history, health, social history, law, legal, 1940s, post war, post-war, Medical Defence Union, medicine, doctors, Britain, British, England, English, prosecutions, legal action
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Butler, Rupert.
As They Saw Her: Emmeline Pankhurst
(George G. Harrap, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf. Small tea stain to page edges, otherwise good in browned, slightly creased dustwrapper. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C74
Keywords: 0245599703, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights. womens' movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edwardian, biographies, Pankhursts
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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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