Burnett, John, ed.
Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, rpt, 1976).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled and browned dustwrapper. 364pp. Order No. NSBK-A2267
Keywords: 0713906820, working class, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, working classes, autobiographies, men, women, women's, labour, labor, labouring classes, laboring classes, domestic servants, housemaids, domestic service, skilled workers, labour aristocracy, John Burnett
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Allen Lane, 1982).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise good+ in browned, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A7533
Keywords: 9780713912142, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain, autobiographies, 19th century, nineteenth century, children, family, families, schooling, working class, working classes, working-class, literature, John Burnett
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Beer, Gillian, ed.
Charles Darwin and T. H. Huxley: Autobiographies
(OUP, 1983).
Paperback. Corners slightly worn, otherwise good+. xxvi + 123pp. Order No. NSBK-A10148
Keywords: 0192851314, Charles Darwin, Gillian Beer, autobiography, autobiographies, Victorians, nineteenth century, lives, life history, life histories, science, history of science. T. H. Huxley, memoirs
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Burnett, John, ed.
Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s
(Penguin, rpt, 1984).
Paperback. Spine slightly sun-faded, otherwise very good. 345pp. Order No. NSBK-A1481
Keywords: 9780140073454, autobiography, childhood, education, Victorian, social history, England, Britain
Price £6.95.
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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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Smith, Anne.
Women Remember: an Oral History
(Routledge, 1989).
Hardback. With newspaper cuttings pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C4236
Keywords: 0415033306, women, oral history, history, memories, autobiography, autobiographies, memories, memory, life history, life histories, Britain, British, England, English, family, interview, interviews, twentieth century
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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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Willard, Frances E.
Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman
(Source Book Press, rpt, 1970).
Complete, unabridged republication of 1889 Chicago edition. Intro. by Hannah Whitall Smith. Hardback. Slight darkening / light marking to red boards, otherwise very good. xvi + 698pp. Order No. NSBK-C1593
Keywords: B0008C0JOM, Frances Willard, Hannah Whitall Smith, Hannah Smith, America, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, autobiography, history, Chicago, nineteenth century, women's history, women, autobiographies, Women's Christian Temperance Union, WCTU, W.C.T.U
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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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Thompson, Flora.
Lark Rise to Candleford:
(Penguin, rpt., 1984).
Introduced by H. J. Massingham. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 537pp. Order No. NSBK-C10112
Keywords: 0140036725, Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, Victorian, rural, country, countryside, women writers, women's writing, lives, life histories, life history, woman writer
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