Anon, .
Life at the Cape A Hundred Years Ago:
(Centaur (Pty) Ltd, 1983).
With contemporary illustrations selected from the work of Thomas Bowler. Covers the years 1861-2 in a series of vignettes which first appeared in the Cape Monthly magazine. Chapters include first impressions of people and scenery, Camps Bay, excursion on Table Mountain, Christmas festivities at Wynberg and Newlands, hospitality at Constantia, a picnic at Kalk Bay, a State Ball, Stellenbosch, Wellington and the Paarl. Hardback. Very good in faded, slightly worn dustwrapper. 119pp. Order No. NSBK-C3900
Keywords: 0908379471, Cape Town, South Africa, Table Mountain, autobiographies, autobiography, women, woman, history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Wynberg, Newlands, Constantia, Kalk Bay, Stellenbosch, Wellington, Paarl, Berg River
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Salisbury, Harrison E.
Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent
(Unwin, 1989).
Hardback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xii + 424pp. Order No. NSBK-A9274
Keywords: 0044403895, reports, reporting, foreign correspondent, journalism, journalists, media, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, Harrison, E. Salisbury, autobiographies, auobiography, autobiographical, life, lives, foreign correspondents
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Webb, Beatrice.
Beatrice Webb's Diaries, 1912-1924:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1952).
Edited by Margaret L. Cole. With an introduction by Lord Beveridge. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good in chipped, torn and worn dustwrapper. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C11987
Keywords: B0000CI9IH, Beatrice Webb, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, philanthropy, philanthropists, twentieth century, left- wing, socialism, socialists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Watson, Mrs Sydney.
A Village Maiden's Career: Life Story of Mrs Sydney Watson
(S. W. Partridge, second edit. n.d).
Authoress of 'Old Home on the Hill', 'Hubert Grantham's Atonement,' 'Kenneth St Clair,' etc., etc. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, blue cloth rubbed along edges, gilt titles, pages browned, otherwise a good working copy. 392pp. Order No. NSBK-C7509
Keywords: Mrs Sydney Watson, nineteenth century, 19th, woman writer, women writers, Britain, British, England, English, history, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, lives, life history, life histories, memoirs, novelists, literature, novels, fiction, Wiltshire, religion, religious
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John, Augustus.
Finishing Touches:
(Readers Union, 1966).
With black and white photographs. Edited and introduced by Daniel George. Hardback. Spine ends slightly soiled, otherwise good. 156pp. Order No. NSBK-A12128
Keywords: B0000CMCW9, Augustus John, Finishing Touches, art, artists, painters, paintings, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Carter, Mark Bonham and Pottle, Mark.
Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xiii + 461pp. Order No. NSBK-C12987
Keywords: 0297816497, Violet Bonham Carter, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, letters, diaries, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, diary, epistles, epistolary
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Priestley, Philip.
Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914
(Methuen, 1985).
Hardback. Good+ in dustwrapper. xviii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-A298
Keywords: 0416347703, biography, biographies, prison, gaol, jail, prisons, jails, England, English, Britain, British, gaols, crime, criminals, criminal, law and order, prisoner, prisoners, incarceration, prison administration, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, imprisonment, imprison
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Swindells, Julia.
Victorian Writing and Working Women: the Other Side of Silence
(Polity Press, 1985).
Paperback. Good+. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C4041
Keywords: 0745600727, Victorian, nineteenth century, writing, women, work, women writers, gender, class, Britain, British, England, English, history, novels, autobiography, autobiographies, literature
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Allsop, Gladys.
Reminiscences: Reminiscences of a Manchester Woman
(Janice Owen, 1987).
Paperback. Top spine end damaged (torn and bumped), newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, a good working copy. 61pp. Order No. NSBK-C14871
Keywords: 0951240609, Manchester, North West, history, autobiographies, autobiography, social history, women, Gladys Allsop, Wythenshawe Park, May Day, Whit Monday
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Lovett, Richard.
James Chalmers: His Autobiography and Letters
(The Religious Tract Society, fourth edit., 1903).
With two maps and eight portraits and illustrations. Hardback. Edges slightly worn, corners and spine ends bent, small splash on front board, otherwise good. 511pp. Order No. NSBK-A5754
Keywords: B00087LEZ0, James Chalmers, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, autobiographical, Richard Lovett, Christian, Christianity, religion, religious, missionary, missionaries, missions, Rarotonga, New Guinea, Hervey Group, Suau, Namau, London Missionary Society, cannibals, canniblism, Motumoto, Dopima, the Fly River, Victorian, nineteenth century
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