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CLOSING DOWN SALE: UPDATED 18 NOV WITH A FEW MORE OFFERINGS

Posted by womanandhersphere in Books And Ephemera For Sale on November 18, 2025

UPDATE – NEW ADDITIONS – 18 NOVEMBER

Additional Books

  1. LEAVIS, Queenie, Fiction and the Reading Public , Chatto and Windus, 1965. Very good. £4
  2. BULKIN, Elly (ed), Lesbian Fiction: an anthology, Persephone Press (Mass), 1981. Soft covers, very good £4
  3. DURHAM, Edith, High Albania, Virago, 1985. Travelling in the Balkans at the beginning of the 20thc – this was the first reprint since 1909. Soft covers, very good £2
  4. BRYAN, Felicity, The Town Gardener’s Companion, Andre Deutsch, 1981. With lots of illustrations. Very good in chipped d/w £2
  5. (POTTER) Georgina Meinertzhagen, From Ploughshare to Parliament: a short memoir of the Potters of Tadcaster, John Murray, 1908. Richard Potter was radical Liberal MP for Wigan and one of the agitators for the 1832 Reform Bill. Good – ex-library £2
  6. ROBINSON, A. Mary F, An Italian Garden: a book of songs Thomas B. Mosher (Portland, Maine) 1897. In the ‘Bibelot’ series – front and back vellum covers in good condition – a little damaged on spine. Internally very good £5 Sold
  7. BIGLAND, Eileen, The Story of the W.R.N.S., Nicholson & Watson, 1946. Good in chipped d/w. £4
  8. WARREN, Geoffrey, Kitchen Bygones: a collector’s guide, Souvenir Press, 1984. Lovely, Heavily illustrated. Soft covers – very good £2
  9. CHEVALIER, Tracy, Girl With a Pearl Earring, HarperCollins,  1999. Fine in fine d/w £5
  10. ATWOOD, Margaret, Dancing Girls and other stories, Virago, 1987 (r/p). Soft covers, very good £2
  11. ATWOOD, Margaret, Life Before Man, Virago, 1983 (r/p). Soft covers, very good £2
  12. SMEDLEY, Agnes, Daughter of the Earth, Virago, 1984. Autobiographical novel, set in rural Missouri at the end of the 19thc. Soft covers – good £2
Additional Ephemera
  1. ASSOCIATION OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS. The ATI was formed in 1894 to support technical institutions, influence government and local councils and aid development of technical education throughout the UK. It initially had 27 member institutions which included Schools of Science and Art, Mechanics’ Institutes and Technical Schools.  Proceedings of the meetings held in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902. Each c 34pp, in original paper covers (some covers present but detached). As a collection                                    £5
  2. CENSUS OF SCOTLAND 1911 VOL II Report of the Twelfth Decennial Census of Scotland HMSO (1913) Missing front blue paper cover and some pages at end that cover tables XLVI-LI – but c. 562pp are present and correct. Withdrawn from the Women’s Library. Heavy.                                           £4
  3. SOUTHWARK HOUSING ASSOCIATION LTD, Fifth Report, Southwark Housing Association, May 1937. Paper covers – 20-pp – with a map, a photograph and lots of names of subscribers. Very good      £2
  4. PETERKIN, William Arthur, Report to the Board of Supervision on the System of Scotland of Boarding Pauper Children in Private Dwellings, HMSO, 1893. A detailed report – statistics and case studies – drawn from all the counties of Scotland –  on what we would now call ‘fostering’. Good – in Ministry of Education card covers – 46pp £2
  5. SOCIAL SERVICE IN LONDON ‘A pamphlet containing: 1) A List of Bureaux of Service; 2) A List of the Chief Statutory and Voluntary Organisations Meeting the Help of Volunteers; 3) A List of Training Courses whre those Inexperienced in Social Work may receive the Necessary Training; 4) A List of Men’s and Women’s Settlements in London.’ 36-pp pamphlet, internally good, paper covers present but detached – ex-Board of Education library £2
  6. BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Reports on Educational Subjects vol 15. ‘School Training for the Home Duties of Women. part 1 The Teaching of “Domestic Science” in the United States of America’. Exhaustive – 374pp – paper covers -back cover present, but detached – withdrawn from the Women’s Library. £2
  7. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No. 21. The Execution of Charles 1, jonathan Cape, 1963.  ‘Jackdaws’ are folders containing facsimiles of primary source material. Such a good idea – it doesn’t seem anytime at all to me since they were at the cutting edge of history teaching! Very good £8
  8. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No.74. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, Jonathan Cape, 1970. The contents are in fine condition – the passepartout tape around the edges flaky.                         £6
  9. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No.74. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, Jonathan Cape, 1970. The contents are in fine condition – the passepartout tape around the edges flaky.                         £6

BOOK LIST 17 November

  1.  CLAYTON, Caroline, Dirty Planet: the Friends of the Earth Guide to Pollution and What You Can Do About It, Women’s Press, 2000. Soft covers – very good £2
  2. DICKSON, Anne & HENRIQUES, Nikki, Menopause: the woman’s view,  Quartet, 1992, revised and updated edition, very good. Such a fashionable subject now. £2
  3. EICHENBAUM, Luise and ORBACH, Susie, Understanding Women, Penguin, 1983.     £2
  4. CAMDEN, Carroll Elizabethan Woman, Elsevier Press, 1952. Covers her education, appearance, clothes, domestic relationships, and her place in society. Large format – with lovely illustrations. Good – top of spine slightly torn – heavy.                £8
  5. SPENDER, Dale (ed), Men’s Studies Modified; the impact of feminism on the academic disciplines Pergamon Press, 1981. Good – soft covers                   £2
  6. EVANS, Mary (ed), The Woman Question: readings on the subordination of women, Fontana, 1982. Contributions from, among others, Mary Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, Margery Spring-Rice and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Soft covers – good                                              £2 SOLD
  7. (JAMESON) Clara Thomas, Love and Work Enough: the life of Anna Jameson, Macdonald, 1967. Good                                                                                           £4
  8. HANDEL, Gerald (ed) The Psychosocial Interior of the Family: a sourcebook for the study of whole families, Allen & Unwin, 1968. Draws from many disciplines – including sociology, social psychology, psychiatry and anthropology – to provide the first composite study of the whole family. Good in rubbed d/w (heavy)      £2
  9. HART-DAVIS, Adam, What the Past Did For Us: a brief history of ancient inventions, BBC. Mint in d/w                                                                     £2
  10. HOBMAN, D.L, Go Spin, You Jade; studies in the emancipation of women, Watts, 1957. Traces women’s changing status from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century. Very good in slightly chipped d/w                                                              £4
  11. FRANZ, Carol and STEWART, Abigail, Women Creating Lives: identities, resilience and resistance, Westview Press, 1994. Studying women’s lives. Madonna and Vera Brittain are among the subjects, along with many others, from many angles. Interesting .Soft covers – fine                                                                  £4
  12. FORD, Julienne, Social Class and the Comprehensive School, Routledge, 1969. A study of the very early days of comprehensives. Soft covers, good       £2
  13. FOSTER, Patricia (ed) Sister to Sister: women write about the Unbreakable Bond, Doubleday, 1995. Includes a contribution from bell hooks. Soft covers – fine £2
  14. DOYAL, Lesley et al, Aids: setting a feminist agenda, Taylor & Francis, 1994. Soft covers – fine                                                                                £2
  15. VICINUS, Martha, Independent Women: work & community for single women 1850-1920, University of Chicago Press, 1985. The study is of life in Britain – an excellent read. Mint in d/w £12
  16. KAHLE, Jane Butler (ed), Women in Science: a report from the field, The Falmer Press, 1985. It’s history now; have things changed? Soft covers – very good £2 
  17. GLC Women’s Committee, The London Women’s Handbook, GLC, 1986. A snapshot of a world long gone. Nearly 400pp – packed with info. Soft covers                  £4
  18. COLBY, Vineta, The Singular Anomaly: women novelists of the 19th century, New York University Press, 1970. Large format – soft covers rubbed and bumped £5
  19. HUGHES, Mary and KENNEDY, Mary, New Futures: changing women’s education, Routledge, 1985. Paper covers – good – ex-library                         £1
  20. SILVER, Pamela and Harold, The Education of the Poor: the history of a National School 1824-1924, Routledge, 1974. A history of the Kennington National Schools. Mint in d/w                                                                                         £5
  21. OWEN, Ursuala, Fathers: reflections by daughters, Virago, 1983. Contributions from, among others, Angela Carter, Anne Boston, Barbara Taylor, Doris Lessing and Dinah Brooke. Soft covers – good                                                               £2  
  22. NEWMAN, David, Sociology of Families, Pine Forge Press, 1999. 544pp – heavy – Mint £4                        
  23. (BRONTE) Winifred Gerin, Emily Bronte, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971. Reading copy in torn d/w -ex-library                                            £2
  24. (GAUTIER) Joanna Richardson, Judith Gautier: a biography, Quartet, 1986. Biography of the French woman of letters – and muse. Soft covers – very good £4
  25. (MONROE) Fred Lawrence Guiles, Norma Jean: the tragedy of Marilyn Monroe, Mayflower, 1971. Soft covers – reading copy                    £1
  26. (RAVERAT) Gwen Raverat, Period Piece, Faber, 1987 (r/p). Her delicious autobiography. Soft covers, good                                                              £2
  27. (WEBB) Norman & Jean Mackenzie (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb vol 2 1892-1905, Virago, 1983. Good in d/w – but ex-library                                 £1 SOLD

EPHEMERA LIST

  1. ‘Everywoman’ –founded in 1985, a news and current affairs magazine aimed at ‘real women’. Roughly 30 issues between 1991 and 1996                              The bundle £10
  2. Mrs Sherwood, The Happy Family, Houlston & Sons, new edition, no date, c 1870. A little tract, 15pp – paper covers – fine                                                             £1 SOLD
  3. Sackville-West, Vita, Knole, National Trust, 1952. National Trust guide to Knole, with a catalogue of pictures and biographical notes of painters by Robin Fedden. Includes 8 b & w photographs. Soft covers – fine                                                                 £2
  4. ‘Woodfield’ A leaflet – folds out to three pages – with one separate page – a brochure for ‘Woodfield’ – a home for children. This is the type of home that doesn’t exist any longer – where parents left their children while they were abroad or otherwise engaged – rather than an orphanage or home for disturbed children. Woodfield was the home of Major and Mrs Whitelocke. ‘Our aim is still to provide at Woodfield the sort of nursery life which was a commonplace in our own childhood, and which made British Nannies so famous throughout Europe that no household of rank was considered complete without one.’ Good                                                                                  £2
  5. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY  H. Holman, A Restatement of the First Principles of Charity Organisation Work. COS, 1912. Paper read on 21 May 1912 at the 21st Annual National Conference of Charity Organisation Societies, Manchester. Paper covers – 24pp – good – unusual                                                                            £2
  6. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY J.W. Pennyman, COS, 1895. A Paper read at the Cheltenham Charity Organisation Conference. ‘How shall we estimate the cost of good work? To do this we shall have to realise what is meant by good work, and to consider the special needs of our locality.’ A discussion of the financial costs of local charity. COS Occasional Paper No 57. 6-pp – unusual                                       £2
  7. ‘Paolo and Francesca’. Programme for the production of ‘Paola and Francesca’ by Stephen Phillips staged by George Alexander at the St James’s Theatre in March 1902. The cast included Elizabeth Robins, Henry Ainley, Lilian Braithwaite and Evelyn Millard. The programme conmprises, as well as the cast list, a long history of the story of Paola and Francesca, notes on the costumes, the scenery, and the music. Good condition                                                                                                               £2 SOLD
  8. COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO INDUSTRIAL UNREST: Report of the Commission for Wales HMSO 1917 50pp – good reading copy – bound into later card covers – ex-Board of Education Library. Extremely interesting survey, commissioned by Lloyd George. Not any mention of women in industry, as far as I can see, but, at the same time, Lloyd George did back Mrs Pankhurst’s Women’s Party’s campaign against industrial disputes in Wales and elsewhere.                                       £4
  9. ROBINSON, Annabel, PURKIS, John, MASSING, Ann ‘A Florentine Procession’: a painting by Jane Benham Hay at Homerton College, Cambridge , Homestead Press (Cambridge), 1997. A study of the Pre-Raphaelite style painting and its artist – who was a friend of Bessie Rayner Parkes. With colour reproduction of the large painting. Paper covers – mint                                                                                              £2
  10. WOMEN’S ARTISTS SLIDE LIBRARY JOURNAL  Featuring articles on women and design and including reviews by Katy Deepwell and Amanda Sebestyen and letters from, among others, Jo Spence. No 30, Oct/Nov 1985. Good                 £4 SOLD
  11. WOMEN & LITERATURE, VOL 3, NO 2 Fall 1975 This issue contains the 1974 Bibliography of Women in British and American Literature, 1660-1900 – and articles on ‘The “Female Virtuoso” in early 18th-c English drama’, on  Willa Cather, and on Wollstonecraft, Godwin and Rousseau. Soft covers – very good                         £2
  12. WELDON, Fay, Words of Advice – a one-act play, first produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 1974. Very good                                                               £1
  13. ARLETT, Vera, The Gentle Heart, Frederick Muller, 1948. A one- act play. Characters include Dante, Virgil, Paolo and Francesca. Good                                          50p
  14. CRUCHLEY, Olive and Ivan, Freedom in Our Time, Fabian Society, no date, 1936.  ‘The time has come for a decisive stand against any further encroachments upon civil liberties’.  Paper covers – 15pp                                                                      £1

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CLOSING DOWN SALE: UPDATED WITH A FEW MORE OFFERINGS

Posted by womanandhersphere in Books And Ephemera For Sale on November 17, 2025

UPDATE – NEW ADDITIONS – 18 NOVEMBER

Additional Books

  1. LEAVIS, Queenie, Fiction and the Reading Public , Chatto and Windus, 1965. Very good. £4
  2. BULKIN, Elly (ed), Lesbian Fiction: an anthology, Persephone Press (Mass), 1981. Soft covers, very good £4
  3. DURHAM, Edith, High Albania, Virago, 1985. Travelling in the Balkans at the beginning of the 20thc – this was the first reprint since 1909. Soft covers, very good £2
  4. BRYAN, Felicity, The Town Gardener’s Companion, Andre Deutsch, 1981. With lots of illustrations. Very good in chipped d/w £2
  5. (POTTER) Georgina Meinertzhagen, From Ploughshare to Parliament: a short memoir of the Potters of Tadcaster, John Murray, 1908. Richard Potter was radical Liberal MP for Wigan and one of the agitators for the 1832 Reform Bill. Good – ex-library £2
  6. ROBINSON, A. Mary F, An Italian Garden: a book of songs  Thomas B. Mosher (Portland, Maine) 1897. In the ‘Bibelot’ series – front and back vellum covers in good condition – a little damaged on spine. Internally very good £5
  7. BIGLAND, Eileen, The Story of the W.R.N.S., Nicholson & Watson, 1946. Good in chipped d/w. £4
  8. WARREN, Geoffrey, Kitchen Bygones: a collector’s guide, Souvenir Press, 1984. Lovely, Heavily illustrated. Soft covers – very good £2
  9. CHEVALIER, Tracy, Girl With a Pearl Earring, HarperCollins,  1999. Fine in fine d/w £5
  10. ATWOOD, Margaret, Dancing Girls and other stories, Virago, 1987 (r/p). Soft covers, very good £2
  11. ATWOOD, Margaret, Life Before Man, Virago, 1983 (r/p). Soft covers, very good £2
  12. SMEDLEY, Constance, Daughter of the Earth, Virago, 1984. Autobiographical novel, set in rural Missouri at the end of the 19thc. Soft covers – good £2
Additional Ephemera
  1. ASSOCIATION OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS. The ATI was formed in 1894 to support technical institutions, influence government and local councils and aid development of technical education throughout the UK. It initially had 27 member institutions which included Schools of Science and Art, Mechanics’ Institutes and Technical Schools.  Proceedings of the meetings held in 1895, 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1901, 1902. Each c 34pp, in original paper covers (some covers present but detached). As a collection                                    £5
  2. CENSUS OF SCOTLAND 1911 VOL II Report of the Twelfth Decennial Census of Scotland HMSO (1913) Missing front blue paper cover and some pages at end that cover tables XLVI-LI – but c. 562pp are present and correct. Withdrawn from the Women’s Library. Heavy.                                           £4
  3. SOUTHWARK HOUSING ASSOCIATION LTD, Fifth Report, Southwark Housing Association, May 1937. Paper covers – 20-pp – with a map, a photograph and lots of names of subscribers. Very good      £2
  4. PETERKIN, William Arthur, Report to the Board of Supervision on the System of Scotland of Boarding Pauper Children in Private Dwellings, HMSO, 1893. A detailed report – statistics and case studies – drawn from all the counties of Scotland –  on what we would now call ‘fostering’. Good – in Ministry of Education card covers – 46pp £2
  5. SOCIAL SERVICE IN LONDON ‘A pamphlet containing: 1) A List of Bureaux of Service; 2) A List of the Chief Statutory and Voluntary Organisations Meeting the Help of Volunteers; 3) A List of Training Courses whre those Inexperienced in Social Work may receive the Necessary Training; 4) A List of Men’s and Women’s Settlements in London.’ 36-pp pamphlet, internally good, paper covers present but detached – ex-Board of Education library £2
  6. BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Reports on Educational Subjects vol 15. ‘School Training for the Home Duties of Women. part 1 The Teaching of “Domestic Science” in the United States of America’. Exhaustive – 374pp – paper covers -back cover present, but detached – withdrawn from the Women’s Library. £2
  7. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No. 21. The Execution of Charles 1, jonathan Cape, 1963.  ‘Jackdaws’ are folders containing facsimiles of primary source material. Such a good idea – it doesn’t seem anytime at all to me since they were at the cutting edge of history teaching! Very good £8
  8. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No.74. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, Jonathan Cape, 1970. The contents are in fine condition – the passepartout tape around the edges flaky.                         £6
  9. JACKDAW PUBLICATIONS No.74. Garibaldi and the Risorgimento, Jonathan Cape, 1970. The contents are in fine condition – the passepartout tape around the edges flaky.                         £6

BOOK LIST 17 November

  1.  CLAYTON, Caroline, Dirty Planet: the Friends of the Earth Guide to Pollution and What You Can Do About It, Women’s Press, 2000. Soft covers – very good £2
  2. DICKSON, Anne & HENRIQUES, Nikki, Menopause: the woman’s view,  Quartet, 1992, revised and updated edition, very good. Such a fashionable subject now. £2
  3. EICHENBAUM, Luise and ORBACH, Susie, Understanding Women, Penguin, 1983.     £2
  4. CAMDEN, Carroll Elizabethan Woman, Elsevier Press, 1952. Covers her education, appearance, clothes, domestic relationships, and her place in society. Large format – with lovely illustrations. Good – top of spine slightly torn – heavy.                £8
  5. SPENDER, Dale (ed), Men’s Studies Modified; the impact of feminism on the academic disciplines Pergamon Press, 1981. Good – soft covers                   £2
  6. EVANS, Mary (ed), The Woman Question: readings on the subordination of women, Fontana, 1982. Contributions from, among others, Mary Wollstonecraft, J.S. Mill, Sheila Rowbotham, Sally Alexander and Barbara Taylor, Margery Spring-Rice and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Soft covers – good                                              £2 SOLD
  7. (JAMESON) Clara Thomas, Love and Work Enough: the life of Anna Jameson, Macdonald, 1967. Good                                                                                           £4
  8. HANDEL, Gerald (ed) The Psychosocial Interior of the Family: a sourcebook for the study of whole families, Allen & Unwin, 1968. Draws from many disciplines – including sociology, social psychology, psychiatry and anthropology – to provide the first composite study of the whole family. Good in rubbed d/w (heavy)      £2
  9. HART-DAVIS, Adam, What the Past Did For Us: a brief history of ancient inventions, BBC. Mint in d/w                                                                     £2
  10. HOBMAN, D.L, Go Spin, You Jade; studies in the emancipation of women, Watts, 1957. Traces women’s changing status from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century. Very good in slightly chipped d/w                                                              £4
  11. FRANZ, Carol and STEWART, Abigail, Women Creating Lives: identities, resilience and resistance, Westview Press, 1994. Studying women’s lives. Madonna and Vera Brittain are among the subjects, along with many others, from many angles. Interesting .Soft covers – fine                                                                  £4
  12. FORD, Julienne, Social Class and the Comprehensive School, Routledge, 1969. A study of the very early days of comprehensives. Soft covers, good       £2
  13. FOSTER, Patricia (ed) Sister to Sister: women write about the Unbreakable Bond, Doubleday, 1995. Includes a contribution from bell hooks. Soft covers – fine £2
  14. DOYAL, Lesley et al, Aids: setting a feminist agenda, Taylor & Francis, 1994. Soft covers – fine                                                                                £2
  15. VICINUS, Martha, Independent Women: work & community for single women 1850-1920, University of Chicago Press, 1985. The study is of life in Britain – an excellent read. Mint in d/w                               £12 SOLD
  16. KAHLE, Jane Butler (ed), Women in Science: a report from the field, The Falmer Press, 1985. It’s history now; have things changed? Soft covers – very good £2 
  17. GLC Women’s Committee, The London Women’s Handbook, GLC, 1986. A snapshot of a world long gone. Nearly 400pp – packed with info. Soft covers                  £4
  18. COLBY, Vineta, The Singular Anomaly: women novelists of the 19th century, New York University Press, 1970. Large format – soft covers rubbed and bumped £5
  19. HUGHES, Mary and KENNEDY, Mary, New Futures: changing women’s education, Routledge, 1985. Paper covers – good – ex-library                         £1
  20. SILVER, Pamela and Harold, The Education of the Poor: the history of a National School 1824-1924, Routledge, 1974. A history of the Kennington National Schools. Mint in d/w                                                                                         £5
  21. OWEN, Ursuala, Fathers: reflections by daughters, Virago, 1983. Contributions from, among others, Angela Carter, Anne Boston, Barbara Taylor, Doris Lessing and Dinah Brooke. Soft covers – good                                                               £2  
  22. NEWMAN, David, Sociology of Families, Pine Forge Press, 1999. 544pp – heavy – Mint £4                        
  23. (BRONTE) Winifred Gerin, Emily Bronte, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1971. Reading copy in torn d/w -ex-library                                            £2
  24. (GAUTIER) Joanna Richardson, Judith Gautier: a biography, Quartet, 1986. Biography of the French woman of letters – and muse. Soft covers – very good £4
  25. (MONROE) Fred Lawrence Guiles, Norma Jean: the tragedy of Marilyn Monroe, Mayflower, 1971. Soft covers – reading copy                    £1
  26. (RAVERAT) Gwen Raverat, Period Piece, Faber, 1987 (r/p). Her delicious autobiography. Soft covers, good                                                              £2
  27. (WEBB) Norman & Jean Mackenzie (eds), The Diary of Beatrice Webb vol 2 1892-1905, Virago, 1983. Good in d/w – but ex-library                                 £1 SOLD

EPHEMERA LIST

  1. ‘Everywoman’ –founded in 1985, a news and current affairs magazine aimed at ‘real women’. Roughly 30 issues between 1991 and 1996                              The bundle £10
  2. Mrs Sherwood, The Happy Family, Houlston & Sons, new edition, no date, c 1870. A little tract, 15pp – paper covers – fine                                                             £1 SOLD
  3. Sackville-West, Vita, Knole, National Trust, 1952. National Trust guide to Knole, with a catalogue of pictures and biographical notes of painters by Robin Fedden. Includes 8 b & w photographs. Soft covers – fine                                                                 £2
  4. ‘Woodfield’ A leaflet – folds out to three pages – with one separate page – a brochure for ‘Woodfield’ – a home for children. This is the type of home that doesn’t exist any longer – where parents left their children while they were abroad or otherwise engaged – rather than an orphanage or home for disturbed children. Woodfield was the home of Major and Mrs Whitelocke. ‘Our aim is still to provide at Woodfield the sort of nursery life which was a commonplace in our own childhood, and which made British Nannies so famous throughout Europe that no household of rank was considered complete without one.’ Good                                                                                  £2
  5. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY  H. Holman, A Restatement of the First Principles of Charity Organisation Work. COS, 1912. Paper read on 21 May 1912 at the 21st Annual National Conference of Charity Organisation Societies, Manchester. Paper covers – 24pp – good – unusual                                                                            £2
  6. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY J.W. Pennyman, COS, 1895. A Paper read at the Cheltenham Charity Organisation Conference. ‘How shall we estimate the cost of good work? To do this we shall have to realise what is meant by good work, and to consider the special needs of our locality.’ A discussion of the financial costs of local charity. COS Occasional Paper No 57. 6-pp – unusual                                       £2
  7. ‘Paolo and Francesca’. Programme for the production of ‘Paola and Francesca’ by Stephen Phillips staged by George Alexander at the St James’s Theatre in March 1902. The cast included Elizabeth Robins, Henry Ainley, Lilian Braithwaite and Evelyn Millard. The programme conmprises, as well as the cast list, a long history of the story of Paola and Francesca, notes on the costumes, the scenery, and the music. Good condition                                                                                                               £2 SOLD
  8. COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO INDUSTRIAL UNREST: Report of the Commission for Wales HMSO 1917 50pp – good reading copy – bound into later card covers – ex-Board of Education Library. Extremely interesting survey, commissioned by Lloyd George. Not any mention of women in industry, as far as I can see, but, at the same time, Lloyd George did back Mrs Pankhurst’s Women’s Party’s campaign against industrial disputes in Wales and elsewhere.                                       £4
  9. ROBINSON, Annabel, PURKIS, John, MASSING, Ann ‘A Florentine Procession’: a painting by Jane Benham Hay at Homerton College, Cambridge , Homestead Press (Cambridge), 1997. A study of the Pre-Raphaelite style painting and its artist – who was a friend of Bessie Rayner Parkes. With colour reproduction of the large painting. Paper covers – mint                                                                                              £2
  10. WOMEN’S ARTISTS SLIDE LIBRARY JOURNAL  Featuring articles on women and design and including reviews by Katy Deepwell and Amanda Sebestyen and letters from, among others, Jo Spence. No 30, Oct/Nov 1985. Good                 £4 SOLD
  11. WOMEN & LITERATURE, VOL 3, NO 2 Fall 1975 This issue contains the 1974 Bibliography of Women in British and American Literature, 1660-1900 – and articles on ‘The “Female Virtuoso” in early 18th-c English drama’, on  Willa Cather, and on Wollstonecraft, Godwin and Rousseau. Soft covers – very good                         £2
  12. WELDON, Fay, Words of Advice – a one-act play, first produced at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, in 1974. Very good                                                               £1
  13. ARLETT, Vera, The Gentle Heart, Frederick Muller, 1948. A one- act play. Characters include Dante, Virgil, Paolo and Francesca. Good                                          50p
  14. CRUCHLEY, Olive and Ivan, Freedom in Our Time, Fabian Society, no date, 1936.  ‘The time has come for a decisive stand against any further encroachments upon civil liberties’.  Paper covers – 15pp                                                                      £1

POSTAGE IS EXTRA

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