Bayly, Mary.
Ragged Homes: and How to Mend Them
(James Nisbet & Co, 1859).
Possibly a first edition. Impossible to be sure as one intro page is missing - the page between the preface and the opening of the text. Frontispiece also lacking. Ex library (Royal Edinburgh Infirmary) with usual library stamps and markings. Hardback. Ex library with usual stamps and markings, a firm copy. Original embossed royal blue boards, with attractive gilt decoation to the spine & front. Edges & corners worn. Good. viii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C16052
Keywords: poverty, poor, Victorian, social history, antiquarian, housing, homes, domesticitiy, nineteenth century
Price £95.00.
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Hollis, Wyndham, ed.
Mr Punch's Progress and Other Observations: A Salute to the Star of the Show by the Punch and Judy College of Professors
(Monkey Puzzle, 1987).
Very scarce. Booklet. Very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-F8544
Keywords: B001VIXIHW, Punch and Judy, Punch, Judy, shows, Punch and Judy Shows, Toby, Mr Punch, seaside, entertainment, history, Professor Glyn Edwards, Professor John Styles, Professor Rod Burnett, street entertainment, Professor Caz Frost, Professor Jingles, resorts, show, puppets, puppetry, hand puppets, glove puppets, wooden puppets, wood puppets, Swazzle, showman, humour, children's entertainment, booths, booth, seafront, bottler, British, England, English, Britain, heritage, nostalgia, seaside entertainment, booklet
Price £17.00.
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Rabb, Theodore K and Rotberg, Robert I.
The Family in History: Interdisciplinary Essays
(Harper Torchbooks, 1973).
Paperback. Covers soiled and slightly torn, otherwise a good working copy. vii + 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C9490
Keywords: 0061317578, family, families, history, social history, men, women, children, domesticity, women, women's history
Price £6.00.
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Heath, June.
Identifying and Valuing Black and White Pot Lids:
(Southern Collectors Publications, 1977).
A good working copy. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, covers & page edges browned and slightly soiled, small split to base of spine. 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A15787
Keywords: 9780905438030, antiques, collecting, pot lids, household, domesticity, marketing, advertising, history
Price £8.99.
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Motz, Marilyn Ferris.
True Sisterhood: Michigan Women and their Kin, 1820-1920
(New York State UP, 1983).
Hardback. Very good. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C5274
Keywords: 0873957156, Michigan, USA, United States, America, American, women, American women's history, sisterhood, home, family, nineteenth century, Victorian, kin network, Marilyn Ferris Motz, white women, Protestant, twentieth century, Bentley Library, correspondence, letters, diary, diaries, photographs, language, cult of domesticity, women's history, house
Price £6.00.
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Mackie, Lindsay and Pattullo, Polly.
Women at Work:
(Tavistock Studies, 1977).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good+ with newspaper cuttings pasted inside. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C10190
Keywords: 0422759902, women, women's work, women workers, women and work, employment, employees, twentieth century, 20th, labour, labor, domesticity, trade unions, housework, children, jobs, employment, equal pay
Price £4.00.
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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
Price £6.00.
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Parker, Rozsika.
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
(Women's Press Ltd, rpt, 1989).
Illustrated. Paperback. Covers slightly discoloured, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C13728
Keywords: 0704338831, embroidery, embroiderers, history, women, sewing, hobbies, crafts, female identity, femininity, chastity, fertility, domesticity, samplers, embroidering, stitchery, needlework
Price £48.00.
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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
Price £9.00.
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Reid, Marion.
A Plea for Woman: Being a Vindication of the Importance and Extent of her Natural Sphere of Action With Remarks on Recent Works on the Subject
(William Tait, Edinburgh, 1843).
Hardback. PLEASE NOTE: This is a photocopy only, in a scuffed, edge-worn library binding, with usual library stamps and markings. Otherwise good. 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C14887
Keywords: B00088M4IK, Mrs Hugo Reid, Marion Reid, plea for woman, history, rights, women's rights, duties, domesticity, education
Price £24.00.
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