Rossiter, Jenny.
Nobler and Better Things: Octavia Hill's Life and Work
(Octavia, 2012).
Paperback. Light edgewear, otherwise very good. 66pp. Order No. NSBK-C15628
Keywords: 9780957307308, Octavia Hill, booklets, housing, urban, open spaces, Victorian, London, slums, social history, women's history
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Buckley, V. C.
The Good Life: Between the Two World Wars with a Candid Camera
(Morrow Quill, 1979).
Illustrated. Paperback. Very good. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A2689
Keywords: 0688085032, camera, photography, interwar, photograph, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £10.00.
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Chisholm, Kate.
Fanny Burney: her Life, 1752 - 1849
(Chatto & Windus, 1998).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xi + 347pp. Order No. NSBK-C2834
Keywords: 070116378X, Fanny Burney, Evelina, blue stockings, women writers, King's Lynn, George III, the novel, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Dunbar, Janet.
The Early Victorian Woman: Some Aspects of her Life (1837-57)
(George G Harrap, 1953).
Hardback. Internally good, covers dull, stained and worn. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C12604
Keywords: B0000CIGBP, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Robinson, W. Sydney.
Muckraker: The Scandalous Life and Times of W. T. Stead. Britain's First Investigative Journalist
(The Robson Press, 2012).
With a foreword by Tristram Hunt. Hardback. Very good + in dw. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-A15392
Keywords: 9781849542944. Muckraker, W. T. Stead, journalism, journalist, press, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographical, self-history
Price £19.00.
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Pankhurst, E. Sylvia.
The Life of Emmeline Pankhurst: The Suffragette Struggle for Women's Citizenship
(Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1936).
Hardback. Red cloth with a little wear to corners. A very small splash to front board, slight fading to spine, and back board, otherwise very good condition, bright. 180pp. Order No. NSBK-A14023
Keywords: B0006DE69M, Pankhurst, Pankhursts, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, first editions, 1st editions, Emmeline Pankhurst, biographies, biography, Sylvia Pankhurst
Price £25.00.
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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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Peabody, Francis Greenwood.
Education for Life: The Story of Hampton Institute
(Doubleday, Page and Co, 1920).
Told in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the school. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, boards rather worn and frayed, splitting internally at spine (front and back); a good reading copy only. xxiv + 393pp. Order No. NSBK-A6598
Keywords: B00088UQU8, Hampton Institute, education, educational, twentieth century, Samuel Chapman Armstrong, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, social history, schools
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Loane, M.
The Queen's Poor: Life As They Find it in Town in Country
(Middlesex UP, 1998).
Introduction by Susan Cohen and Clive Fleay. Paperback. Slightly soiled, otherwise good. liii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK-A12701
Keywords: 1898253226, The Queen's Poor, poor, poverty, M. Loane, social investigations, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, towns, country, nurses, nursing. The Queen's Poor, working class, working-class, Martha Jane Loane
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Cobbett, William.
Advice to Young Men: and (incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters Addressed to a Youth, A Bachelor, A Lover, A Husband, A Father, A Citizen, or a Subject
(Ward, Lock and Co, ?).
With notes and a life of the author. Hardback. Red decorated boards worn and spine ends torn, internally good. xiii + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A13089
Keywords: William Cobbett, advice, men, males, masculinity, boys, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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