text:
Woman and her Sphere
Catalogue 183
See # 503
1. 500 HOUSEWIVES Five Hundred Household Hints Country Life 1926 [13563] The hints originated in 'House & Garden' – supplied by readers. Very good £8
2. ALEXANDER, Lynn Women, Work and Representation: needlewomen in Victorian art and literature Ohio Unversity Press 2003 [11620] Hardcovers – mint in d/w £15
3. ALLSOPP, Anne The Education and Employment of Girls in Luton, 1874-1924: widening opportunities and lost freedoms Boydell Press/Bedfordshire Historical Record Society 2005 [10963] Examines the education of Luton girls and its relationship with employment opportunities. Mint in d/w £20
4. ANDREWS, Maggie The Acceptable Face of Feminism: the Women's Institute as a social movement Lawrence & Wishart 1997 [9533] Soft covers – mint £9
5. ANON After the Dawn: a record of the pioneer work in Edinburgh for the higher education of women Oliver & Boyd 1939 [9159] Based on a scrapbook kept by Sarah Siddons Mair and other records contemporary with the 19th-century movement for higher education in Edinburgh. Very good £48
6. ANON Enquire Inside For Everything You Want to Know In Your Domestic and Social Life W. Foulsham no date [1930s?] [13576] Paper covers – good – some foxing £4
7. ANON The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Shopping Retail Trading Standards Association no date [1935] [13564] 'How to be sure of getting value for money. How to be sure of distinguising good quality from bad. How to be sure of paying the right price.' Card covers – very good £10
8. ANON You And I Cookery Book: an effort to meet a need in the cheapest form Birling Publishing Co no date [1930s?/1940s?] [13577] A spin-off of the 'You and I' magazine, published in connected with the YWCA. 'Over 1000 carefully seleccted household hints and reccipes'. I can't work out when this was published – it contains several recipes with 'War-time' in their titles – but am not sure if this is looking back to WW1 or whether it was published during WW2. But others seem to use a surprising amount of sugar and eggs for cooking in a time of strict rationing. But, whenever, 'Economy', was the watchword. Paper covers – front cover present but detached – back cover missing £2
9. BARRACLOUGH, Arthur Et Al Practical Home Decorating and Repairs Odhams Press, no date (1930s?) [10318] Heavily illustrated £6
10. BASCH, Françoise Relative Creatures: Victorian women in society and the novel Schocken Books 1974 [13467] Very good £4
11. BEACHY, Robert Et Al (eds) Women, Business and Finance in 19th-century Europe: rethinking separate spheres Berg 2006 [9208] Fine £12
12. BENJAMIN, Marina (ed) Science and Sensibility: gender and scientific enquiry 1780-1945 Basil Blackwell 1994 [11668] An interesting collection of essays, Soft covers – mint £18
13. BERRY, James, BERRY, F.May Dickinson, BLEASE, W. Lyon The Story of a Red Cross Unit in Serbia J & A Churchill 1916 [13560] The unit, headed by Dr James Berry and his wife, Dr May Dickinson Berry, was known as the 'Anglo-Serbian Hospital' or the 'Royal Free Hospital' – one of the 'many enterprises undertaken by the British peoples during the Great War'. An appendix lists all the members of the unit – which included women doctors as well as nurses and V.A.D.s Very good – with photographs £65
14. BERRY, Mrs Edward And MICHAELIS, Madame (eds) 135 Kindergarten Songs and Games Charles and Dible, no date [1881] [9035] 'These songs are printed to supply a want in English Kindergartens' – the music is, of course, included – as are movement instructions. Mme Michaelis ran the Croydon Kindergarten. Very good £48
15. BLACK, Clementina Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage Duckworth 1907 [11756] With an introduction by A.G. Gardiner, chairman of the executive committee of the National Anti-Sweating League £45
16. BLAIR, Kirstie Form & Faith in Victorian Poetry & Religion OUP 2012 [13415] By assessing the discourses of church architecture and liturgy the author demonstrates that Victorian poets both reflected on and affected ecclesiastical practices – and then focuses on particular poems to show how High Anglican debates over formal worship were dealt with by Dissenting, Broad Church, and Roman Catholic poets and other writers. Features major poets such as the Browning, Tennyson, Hopkins, Rossetti and Hardy – as well as many minor writers. Mint in d/w (pub price £62) £35
17. BLOCH, R. Howard Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love University of Chicago Press 1991 [11978] Soft covers – fine £18
18. BLOOM, Stanley The Launderette: a history Duckworth 1988 [10201] Soft covers – very good £10
19. BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Reports on Educational Subjects vol 15 HMSO 1905 [12182] '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 – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £10
20. BOARD OF EDUCATION Special Reports on Educational Subjects vol 19 HMSO 1907 [12233] 'School Training for the Home Duties of Women. Part III The Domestic Training of Girls in Germany and Austria'. Paper wrappers marked and worn -internally good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
21. BOUCHERETT, Jessie and BLACKBURN, Helen Conditions of Working Women and the Factory Acts Elliot Stock 1896 [13341] An extremely scarce and interesting study. Boucherett and Blackburn were particularly concerned that women should not be barred from trades by the dictat of Parliament – rather that their working conditions should be improved. The final chapter consists of 'The Report to the Society for the Employment of Women on the work of women in the white lead trade, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, March, 1895. With illustrations. Good (back cover marked) – and very scarce (I have never – in nearly 30 years – previously had a copy in stock) £55
22. BOYD, Kenneth Scottish Church Attitudes to Sex, Marriage and the Family 1850-1914 John Donald 1980 [9679] Fine in d/w £18
23. BRITTAIN, Vera Lady Into Woman: a history of women from Victoria to Elizabeth II Andrew Dakers 1953 [13161] Good – though ex-public library £8
24. BROWN, Mike The Day Peace Broke Out: the VE experience Sutton Publishing 2005 [8936] Describes VE-Day celebrations in Britain and across the world through the memories of those who were there. Illustrated with photographs, adverts, posters and cartoons. Soft covers – large format – mint £10
25. BURMAN, Sandra (ed) Fit Work for Women St Martin's Press (NY) 1979 [12111] Presents a collection of papers which discuss the origins of the domestic ideal and its effects on activities usually undertaken by women. Fine in d/w £12
26. BURSTALL, Sara A. The Story of the Manchester High School for Girls 1871-1911 Manchester University Press 1911 [9219] Cover marked and faded – internally very good. Scarce £38
27. BY THE AUTHOR OF ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING The Reason Why: Domestic Science Houlston & Sons c 1900? reprint [13573] First published in 1869 to give 'Intelligible Reasons for the Various Duties which a Housewife has to Perform'. Introducing 'science' into the 'domestic'. Answers to such questions as 'Why does flesh when much boiled become tasteless and stringy?'; 'Why do we blow the fire?'; 'Why should hair too distant from the eyebrows be parted only in the centre?'; 'Why is it necessar to turn mattresses at frequent intervals' etc etc. Good £8
28. BYRNE, Katherine Tuberculosis and the Victorian Literary Imagination CUP 2010 [13430] Explores the representations of tuberculosis in 19th-century literature and culture. fears about gender roles, degeneration, national efficiency and sexual transgression all play their part in the portrayal of 'consumption', a disease which encompassed a variety of cultural associations. Mint in d/w (pub price £55) £35
29. CADBURY, Edward, MATHESON, M. Cecile and SHANN, George Women's Work and Wages: a phase of life in an industrial city University of Chicago Press 1907 [8076] US edition of this study of women's work in Birmingham. Good – inner hinge a little loose £50
30. CAIRNES, J.E. Political Essays Macmillan 1873 [11785] The Irish economist John Cairnes had long been a friend of Henry Fawcett, both part of the Blackheath circle centring on John Stuart Mill. When Millicent Fawcett (aged 23) published her 'Political Economy for Beginners' in 1870 Cairnes took it seriously, reviewed it and wrote to her 'I have just finished my study of your useful little book and send you by this post my notes upon it. You will find I have some serious controversies with you.' Three years later, when he published 'Political Essays' , he sent Millicent a copy – inscribing it 'MG Fawcett from the author'. A 'From the Author' slip has survived the handling of the last 140 years – and Millicent Fawcett has added her delightful bookplate to the front pastedown. However, an inquisitive inspection reveals that not all the pages are cut. Latterly the book was in the library of O.R. McGregor (Professor Lord McGregor of Durris) author of 'Divorce in England' which had, for its time, 1957, an excellent bibliography – revealing the author's wide interest in 'women's history'. On the spine the cloth binding is chipped – missing in parts – would benefit from rebacking. Otherwise a good copy – and a very interesting association copy £150
31. CAMDEN, Carroll The Elizabethan Woman Elsevier Press 1952 [9164] Covers her education, appearance, clothes, domestic relationships, and her place in society.Large format – good – top of spine slightly torn £18
32. CARTLAND, Barbara Barbara Cartland's Book of Health Javelin 1985 [13580] Love the opening pages that set out 'Barbara Cartland's Experience on Health' which begins in the 1930 when she studied Herbal Medicine with Mrs Leyel of Culpepper to 1984 when she was Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade in Hertfordshire. Soft covers – good £2
33. CHAPONE, Mrs On the Improvement of the Mind together with Dr Gregory's, Legacy to His Daughters and Lady Pennington's, Advice to Her Absent Daughter, with An Additional letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children Scott, Webster and Geary, no date c. 1835 [9555] A compendium of Good Conduct – a 'four in one'. With engraved frontispiece and title page -good in slightly rubbed half leather and marbled boards £38
34. CHECKLAND, Olive Philanthropy in Victorian Scotland: social welfare and the voluntary principle John Donald Ltd 1980 [9241] Fine in fine d/w £20
35. CLAPP, Elizabeth and JEFFREY, Julie Roy (eds) Women, Dissent and Anti-Slavery in Britain and America, 1790-1865 OUP 2011 [13422] Essays by David Turley, Timothy Whelan, Alison Twells, Clare Midgeley, Carol Lasser, Julie Roy Jeffrey, Stacey robertson and Judie Newman – with an Introduction by Elizabeth Clapp. Mint in d/w (pub price £60) £25
36. CLARK, Margaret Homecraft: a guide to the modern home and family Routledge, 3rd ed 1978 (r/p) [10288] The author was senior adviser for Home Economics for Derbyshire. The book was a textbook, suitable for school Home Economics courses. First published in 1966. Soft covers – very good £6
37. CLARKE, Patricia The Governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882 Hutchinson 1985 [12463] Fine in fine d/w £7
38. COHEN, Monica Professional Domesticity in the Victorian Novel: women, work and home CUP 1998 [12419] Offers new readings of narratives by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, George Eliot, Emily Eden etc to show how domestic work, the most feminine of all activities, gained much of its social credibility by positioning itself in relation to the emergent professions. Soft cover – fine £25
39. COLLET, Clara Report by Miss Collet of the Statistics of Employment of Women and Girls HMSO 1894 [7203] Report prepared under the aegis of the Board of Trade – Employment of Women (Labour Department). Very good – 152pp – bound into new protective card covers £65
40. COLLET, Clara Report by Miss Collet on the Money Wages of Indoor Domestic Servants HMSO 1899 [7207] Women workers were in the overwhelming majority of those considered in this report. Fascinating information. Very good in original card covers £55
41. COWAN, Ruth Schwartz More Work For Mother: the ironies of household technology from the open hearth to the microwave Basic Books (NY) 1983 [10355] Very good in d/w £10
42. CRAIG, Elizabeth Housekeeping Collins 1947 [13047] With many photographs. In 'Elizabeth Craig's Household Library' series. Good in torn d/w £8
43. DAVID, Deirdre (ed) The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel CUP 2012 (2nd ed) [13411] This second edition includes essays by Kate Flint, Caroline Levine, Nancy Armstrong, Lyn Pykett and Clare Pettit – amongst others. Soft covers – mint £15
44. DEMOOR, Marysa Their Fair Share: women, power and criticism in the 'Athenaeum' , from Millicent Garrett Fawcett to Katherine Mansfield, 1870-1920 Ashgate 2000 [11667] Mint £25
45. DICKENS, Andrea Janelle Female Mystic: great women thinkers of the Middle Ages I.B. Tauris 2009 [11947] Soft covers – fine £10
46. DINSHAW, Carolyn and WALLACE, David (eds) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing CUP 2003 [11857] Soft covers – fine £12
47. DON VANN, J. and VANARSDEL, Rosemary T. (eds) Periodicals of Queen Victoria's Empire: an exploration University of Toronto Press 1996 [9600] Fine in fine d/w £18
48. DOODY, Margaret Anne The True Story of the Novel Fontana 1998 [10562] Aims to prove that the novel is an ancient form – with a continuous history of 2000 years. Soft covers – very good £5
49. DURHAM, Edith High Albania Virago 1985 [10802] First published in 1909. Soft covers – very goo £8
50. DYHOUSE, Carol Feminism and the Family in England 1880-1939 Basil Blackwell 1989 [11224] Soft covers – very good £12
51. ELLIS, Mrs Sarah Stickney The Select Works Henry G. Langley (New York) 1844 [11234] Includes 'The Poetry of Life', 'Pictures of Private Life', 'A Voice From the Vintage, on the force of example addressed to those who think and feel'
Good in original decorative cloth £48
52. ERICKSON, Amy Louise Women and Property in Early Modern England Routledge 2002 (r/p) [9730] Soft covers – fine internally – crease to front cover £15
53. EVERGATES, Theodore (ed) Aristocratic Women in Medieval France University of Pennsylvania Press 1999 [11979] Soft covers – very good £17
54. FADERMAN, Lillian Surpassing the Love of Men: romantic friendship & love between women from the Renaissance to the present Junction Books 1982 (r/p) [5162] Paper covers – large format – 500pp – very good £12
55. FARRELL, Christine My Mother Said…; the way young people learned about sex and birth control Institute for Social Studies in Medical Care 1978 [8997] Based on over 1500 interviews with a national random sample of 16- to 19-year olds in 1974-5. Very good in good d/w – though ex-library £10
56. FAWCETT, MILLICENT Political Economy for Beginners Macmillan, 7th ed 1889 [4335] Reasonable copy – ex College of Preceptors Library £16
57. FINDLAY, J.J. (ed) The Young Wage-Earner and the Problem of His Education: essays and reports Sigwick and Jackson 1918 [8026] For 'His Education' read also 'Hers'. The essays include: 'From Home Life to Industrial Life: with special reference to adolescent girls, by James Shelley, prof of education, University College, Southampton; 'The Young Factory Girl' by emily Matthias, superintendent of women employees, the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Co, Bradford and the reports include: 'Working Girls and Trade Schools (London)' by Theodora Pugh and 'The Sons and Daughters of Farming Folk' by J.J. Findlay. Very good
58. FULLER, Sophie The Pandora Book of Women Composers Pandora 1994 [8979] Fine in d/w £15
59. [GARDINER, Sarah (ed) Leaves from a Young Girl's Diary: the journal of Margaret Gardiner 1840-41 Tuttle, Moorhouse & Taylor Co (NY) 1927 [13478] The journal kept by Margaret Gardiner who, with her father, a NY State Senator, her mother and her sister (who was to become the wife of a US President), sailed across the Atlantic to Europe. They landed at Liverpool and then proceeded to 'do' Europe. Delightful. Very good – scarce £45
60. GEZARI, Janet Last Things:
Emily Bronte's Poems OUP 2007 [11027] A study of the poems, reinstating them at the heart of Romantic and Victorian concerns while at the same time underlining their enduring relevance for readers today. Mint in d/w £15
61. GILBERT, Sandra And GUBAR, Susan No Man's Land: the place of the woman writer in the twentieth century Yale University Press 1994 [8899] Vol 3 – 'Letters From the Front' .477pp – mint in d/w £25
62. GILLESPIE, Diane F. (ed) The Multiple Muses of Virginia Woolf University of Missouri Press [7496] Fine in d/w £18
63. GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'S HOME ENCYCLOPAEDIA Ebury Press 1968 (r/p) [10297] Packed with information and illustrations. How very retro. Large format – very good in rubbed d/w – heavy £10
64. GREGORY, James Victorians Against the Gallows: capital punishment and the abolitionist movement in 19th-century Britain I.B. Tauris 2011 [13421] The first comprehensive study on the movement against Capital Punishment in Victorian Britain. Mint in d/w (pub price £65) £35
65. HALLSWORTH, Joseph and DAVIES, Rhys J The Working Life of Shop Assistants: a study of conditions of labour in the distributive trades privately published 1910 [11765] Fascinating insight into the working conditions and wages of a wide range of shop workers with description of some of the reforms that had been put in place. Very good in original cloth £35
66. HENNEY, E. And BYETT, J.D. Modern Home Laundrywork Dent, new, revised ed 1965 [10225] 'The most authoritative book of its kind available to teachers, students and housewives.' Good in chipped d/w £6
67. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN Selected Writings Penguin 2001 [11853] With introduction and notes by Mark Atherton. Soft covers – fine £6
68. HILEY, Michael Victorian Working Women: portraits from life Gordon Fraser 1979 [13340] Photographs of working women most of them collected during the second half of the 19th century by A.J. Munby. Paper covers – very good £12
69. HILL, Georgiana Women in English Life: from mediaeval to modern times Richard Bentley 1896 [10453] An excellent study – in two volumes. Most of the second volume is devoted to the position of women at the end of the 19th century – written by one who was very much involved with the woman's movement. Very good – a little bumped at top and bottom of spine. A scarce set £95
70. HOLCOMBE, Lee Victorian Ladies at Work: middle-class working women in England and Wales 1850-1914 David & Charles 1973 [11226] Very good in chipped d/w £25
71. HOLT, Anne A Ministry To The Poor: being a history of the Liverpool Domestic Mission Society, 1836-1936 Henry Young (Liverpool) 1936 [9243] Very good – scarce £45
72. hooks, bell Salvation: black people and love Women's Press 2001 [6689] Soft covers – fine £5
73. HORSFIELD, Margaret Biting the Dust: the joys of housework Fourth Estate 1997 [10183] Mint in d/w £10
74. HOUSEHOLD REFERENCE LIBRARY Household Management and Entertaining Fleetway House, no daty (1930s) [10276] An amazingly eclectic compilation – with many photographs. Good £12
75. HUGHES, Linda K. And LUND, Michal Victorian Publishing and Mrs Gaskell's Work University Press of Virginia 1999 [9537] Fine in fine d/w £15
76. HUMM, Maggie A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Feminist Literary Criticism Harvester Wheatsheaf 1994 [10538] Soft covers – fine £8
77. INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S CONGRESS IN NURNBERG Living Reconciliation -Making Peace women's strategies against oppression, war and armament Women of One World 1992 [13485] Soft covers – fine £5
78. JOHNSON, Patricia E. Hidden Hands: working-class women and Victorian social-problem fiction Ohio University Press 2001 [10784] 'Argues that the female industrial worker became more dangerous to represent than the prostitute or the male radical because the worker exposed crucial contradictions between the class and gender ideologies of the period and its economic realities'. Soft covers – mint £15
79. KAPO, Remi A Savage Culture: racism – a black British view Quartet 1981 [5217] Paper covers – very good £4
80. KEDDIE, Nikki And BARON, Beth (eds) Women in Middle Eastern History: shifting boundaries in sex and gender Yale University Press 1991 [10511] The first study of gender relations in the Middle East from the earliest Islamic period to the present. Fine in d/w £15
81. KING, Barbara P.G.S.G: a history 1905-1946 privately published 1989 [12569] A history of Pate's Grammar School for Girls – 'Cheltenham's other girls' school. Soft covers – fine £18
82. LANTZ, Louise Old American Kitchenware 1725-1925 Williamsmead Publishers (USA) 1988 (r/p) [10283] Packed with illustrations. Soft covers – large format – very good £10
83. LARSEN, Timothy A People of One Book: the Bible and the Victorians OUP 2011 [13407] Case studies of representative figures, from Elizabeth Fry to Florence Nightingale, from C.H. Spurgeon to Grace Aguilar to demonstrate the scripture-saturated culture of 19th-century England. Mint in d/w (pub price £76) £25
84. LASDUN, Susan Making Victorians:
The Drummond Children's World 1827-1832 Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1981 [13260] CHECK – WRITE BLURB. Fine in fine d/w £10
85. LEE, Julia Sun-Joo The American Slave Narrative and the Victorian Novel OUP 2010 [13436] Investigates the shaping influence of the American slave narrative on the Victorian novel in the years between the British Abolition Act and the American Emancipation Proclamation – and argues that Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thackeray and Dickens integrated into their works generic elements of the slave narrative. Mint in d/w (pub price £40) £15
86. LERNER, Gerda The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: from the middle ages to 1870 OUP 1993 [11921] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £13
87. LEWIS, Judith Schneid In the Family Way: childbearing in the British aristocracy, 1760-1860 Rutgers University Press 1986 [8652] Very good in slightly chipped d/w £25
88. LITOFF, Judy Barrett And SMITH, David C. We're In This War, Too: World War II Letters from American Women in Uniform OUP 1994 [8310] Fine in d/w £16
89. LOANE, M. An Englishman's Castle Edward Arnold 1909 [9060] Martha Loane was a district nurse – this study of the homes of the poor is the result of her social investigation. Good £18
90. LOFTIE, W.J. A Plea for Art in the House: with special reference to the economy of collecting works of art, and the importance of taste in education and morals Macmillan 1879 (r/p) [13338] First published in 1876 – around the same time as Rhoda and Agnes Garrett's book in the same series 'Art at Home' – and evincing many of the same touchstone's of taste in home decoration. Goodish – a little rubbed and bumped £18
91. (LUXEMBOURG) Richard Abraham Rosa Luxembourg: a life for the International Berg 1989 [1399] Mint in d/w £10
92. LYNCH, Mary Sewing Made Easy The World's Work 1940 [13572] Co-published with Garden City Books (NY). How to make your 1940 costume – acknowledgement is made to Simplicity Patterns many of whose patterns are included in the book. Very good – large format £8
93. MCCANN, Jean Thomas Howell and the School at Llandaff D. Brown (Cowbridge) 1972 [10608] Good – ex-university library £15
94. MCGREGOR, O.R. Divorce in England: a centenary study Heinemann 1957 [10426] Very good in d/w £20
95. McMILLAN, Margaret The Child and the State The National Labour Press 1911 [11641] In which she advocated giving poor children a more broad and humane education than they currently were receiving. Vol 9 in the Socialist Library series. Card covers – very good £28
96. MALMGREEN, Gail Neither Bread nor Roses: utopian feminists and the English working class, 1800-1850 John L. Noyce (Brighton). 1978 (r/p) [9147] A 'Studies in Labour' pamphlet – 44pp. Soft covers – very good £15
97. MALVERY, Olive Christian Baby Toilers Hutchinson 1907 [8216] A study of the child workers of Edwardian Britain. Good £38
98. MARKS, Lara Metropolitan Maternity maternity and infant welfare services in early 20th century London Rodopi 1996 [11624] Soft covers – fine £22
99. MARTIN, Jane Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England Leicester University Press 1999 [10781] Mint (pub price £65) £35
100. MASON, Michael The Making of Victorian Sexuality OUP 1994 [10599] Fine in d/w £14
101. MEARS, Ann Success in Shopping Arrowsmith 1927 [13562] 'How to tell, at sight: Good Eggs from Bad; Fresh Fish from Stale etc etc;
'How to Distinguish the Best: in Blankets, Tennis-Racquets, Dogs, Firewood, Scissors etc'. Very good in dustwrapper (latter is split at spine) £15
102. MERTUS, Julie Kosovo: how myths and truths started a war University of California Press 1999 [6705] Soft covers – mint £8
103. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF HACKNEY Catalogue of Books in the Public Libraries Public Libraries Committee, Hackney no date [1911?] [13479] A listing of all the books held in Hackney Public Libraries c 1910. Each book's listing gives the name of author, title and date of publication. Very interesting £25
104. MOLE, Mrs A. And WATERMAN, Miss Alys 20th Century Cookery: how to cook by electricity British Electrical Development Association, revised ed no date (1930s) [10213] 'An indispensable handbook for the Housewife or Cook, giving recipes of 100 dainty dishes which can be prepared without trouble and at small cost.' Instructions for using electrical equipment – cooker, refrigerator and water heater – and recipes. Card covers – very jazz age – good internally – covers a little rubbed and paper missing from narrow spine £8
105. MUMM, Susan (ed) All Saints Sisters of the Poor: an Anglican Sisterhood in the 19th century Boydel Press/Church of England Record Society 2001 [10964] A history of the Sisterhood that was founded by Harriet Brownlow Byron in 1850 to work in the slums of Marylebone – but then spread its net much wider. This volume comprises material drawn from the Sisterhood's archives. V. interesting. Mint £30
106. NEWMAN, Barbara St Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine University of California Press 1989 [11856] Soft covers – fine £10
107. NORWICH HIGH SCHOOL 1875-1950 privately printed, no date [1950] [9612] A GPDST school. Very good internally – green cloth covers sunned – ex-university library £15
108. NUNN, Pamela Gerrish Victorian Women Artists Women's Press 1987 [7106] Very good in d/w £18
109. O'NEILL, Judith (ed) Critics on Charlotte and Emily Bronte Allen & Unwin 1968 [11974] Soft covers – internally good – although contents, clean and tight, have parted from covers £3
110. ORRINSMITH, Mrs The Drawing Room: its decoration and furniture Macmillan 1877 [9344] In the 'Art at Home' series. 'The author has endeavoured to give more particular directions as to the furnishing and adornment of the Drawing-Room than was possible in the Miss Garretts' volume treating of the whole subject of 'House Decoration' .' Very good – missing free front end paper many illustrations – a scarce book £45
111. OSBORNE, Honor And MANISTY, Peggy A History of the Royal School for Daughters of Officers of the Army 1864-1965 Hodder & Stoughton 1966 [10609] Good – ex-university library £12
112. PAGET, Lady With Our Serbian Allies: Second Report printed for private circulation [1916] [13561] Gives a full account of the Serbian Relief Fund and the medical unit that it sent out to Serbia. Includes a list of the Unit's staff. 134pp – in card covers – good except for the fact that the rear cover and last 2pp are detached (although present) – a concomitant effect of this type of glued binding, I'm afraid. Scarce £80
113. PALMER, Beth Women's Authorship and Editorship in Victorian Culture OUP 2011 [13432] Draws on extensive periodical and archival material to bring new perspectives to the study of sensation fiction in the Victorian period. Mint in d/w (pub price £60) £35
114. PATTEN, Marguerite The Victory Cookbook Imperial War Museum 1995 (r/p) [10328] 'Over 200 recipes which helped the nation celebrate on that special day and right up to the end of rationing in 1954'. Packed with illustrations. Soft covers – very good £8
115. PEACH, Linden Contemporary Irish and Welsh Women's Fiction: gender, desire and power University of Wales Press 2008 [11572] The first comparative study of fiction by late 20th and 21st-century women writers from England, Southern Ireland and Wales. Soft covers – mint £15
116. PEDERSEN, Frederik Marriage Disputes in Medieval England Hambledon 2000 [11977] The records of the church courts of the province of York, mainly dating from the 14th c, provide a welcome light on private, family life and on individual reactions to it. Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £25
117. PHILLIPS, M. And TOMPKINSON, W.S. English Women in Life and Letters OUP 1927 [9151] Describes the lives of Englishwomen of the past, some rich, others poor and unknown – using both historical sources and fiction – from the 14th century to the mid 19th. Very good £20
118. PHILLIPS, Margaret Mann Willingly to School: memories of York College for Girls 1919-1924 Highgate Publications 1989 [13124] Good in card covers – though ex-library £10
119. PRINCE, Ancliffe (ed) The Complete Launderer Power Laundry Journal [10215] 'Will constitute a useful foundation for the tyro to the study of a successful plant operation, and a constant source of guidance and inspiration to those already firmly estalished in the managerial saddle – for the most successful launderers are those who can always go on learning'. Everything one ever needed to know about setting up a professional laundry in the 1930s. With pages of photographs and advertisements. Very good £10
120. RAPPOPORT, Jill Giving Women: alliance and exchange in Victorian culture OUP 2012 [13413] examines the literary expression and cultural consequences of English women's giving from the 1820s to the First World War – in the work of Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Elizabeth Gaskell and Christina Rossetti – as well as in literary annuals and political pamphlets. Through giving, women redefined the primary allegiances of teh everyday lives, forged public coalitions, and advanced campaigns for abolition, slum reform, eugenics, and suffrage. Mint in d/w (pub price £45.99) £32
121. RENDALL, Jane The Origins of Modern Feminism: women in Britain, France and the United States 1780-1860 Macmillan 1985 [9461] Soft covers – very good £15
122. RICHARDS, Anna The Wasting Heroine in German Fiction by Women 1770-1914 OUP 2004 [9691] Mint in d/w £12
123. RODENSKY, Lisa (ed) The Oxford Handbook of the Victorian Novel OUP 2013 [13431] A cornucopia! Mint in d/w – heavy – 808pp. (pub price £95) £50
124. ROYDEN, A. Maude Political Christianity G.P. Putnams' 1923 (r/p) [13120] Dedicated to members of the Guildhouse congregation. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
125. SAHGAL, Gita Et Al (eds) Refusing Holy Orders: women and fundamentalism in Britain Virago 1992 [9112] Soft covers – a little damage to cover £4
126. SHAABAN, Bouthaina Both Right and Left Handed: Arab women talk about their lives Women's Press 1988 [6644] Soft covers – mint £5
127. SHAHAR, Shulamith The Fourth Estate: a history of women in the Middle Ages Routledge 1993 (r/p) [11858] Paper covers – fine £12
128. SHATTOCK, Joanne And WOLFF, Michael (eds) The Victorian Periodical Press: samplings and soundings Leicester University Press 1992 [3501] A collection of essays. Fine in d/w £28
129. SHIMAN, Lilian Women and Leadership in Nineteenth-Century England Macmillan 1992 [4783] Fine in d/w (which has slight tear at top of spine) £28
130. SHIRAZI, Faegheh Velvet Jihad: Muslim women's quiet resistance to Islamic fundamentalism University Press of Florida 2009 [11615] Hardcovers – mint in d/w £20
131. SHOWALTER, Elaine A Jury of Her Peers: American women writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Virago 2009 [11900] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £12
132. SLATER, Michael The Great Dickens Scandal Yale University Press 2012 [13420] How Dickens sought to cover up his relationship with Ellen Ternan. Mint in d/w (pub price £20) £8
133. STAFFORD, H.M. Queenswood: the first sixty years 1894-1954 privately printed 1954 [9643] History of the school. Good – ex-college library £12
134. STANLEY, Liz Et Al (eds) Auto/Biography: Bulletin of the British Sociological Association Study Group on Auto/Biography (1993) [10494] Vol 2, no 1 'Research Practices'. Soft covers – fine £9
135. STARK, Freya East is West Century 1986 [10557] Her war-time experiences in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. First published in 1945. Soft covers – very good £5
136. STENTON, Doris Mary The English Woman in History Allen & Unwin 1957 [8440] Good reading copy – ex-library £15
137. STOBART, Mrs St Clair War and Women: from experience in the Balkans and elsewhere G.Bell & Sons 1913 [13567] An account of her adventures with the Women's Convoy Corps that she took out to Serbia during the Balkan Wars in 1912. With photographs. Good reading copy – front hinge rather loose – spine cloth is tender free front end paper missing – one gathering in the prelims loose- probably not surprising because the copy was a presentation copy – presumably from Mrs St Clair Stobart – to the Women's Freedom League – and formed partof their Lending Library at 1 Robert Street, Adelphi. A copy of a scarce book with interesting provenance that has clearly been well read £35
138. STONE, Dorothy The National: the story of a pioneer college Robert Hale 1976 [8231] History of the pioneering domestic economy training college – The National Training College of Domestic Subjects. Fine in d/w £12
139. STONE, S. A. Home-Making: practical household hints C. Arthur Pearson 1915 [13570] One quails at the amount of routine work that was expected of the housewife and clearly, even when dirt was so much more of a threat and smoke pollution so much more damaging, it can't really have been necessary to do all that the writers of such guides stipulated. I'm exhausted just reading it. Good reading copy £8
140. STOREY, Joan Home Service Book: the answers to your everyday problems in the home Hodder & Stoughton 1955 [10275] With numerous photographs of, for instance, heating equipment – v. evocative. Good £6
141. Strauss, Rita The Beauty Book Cassell 1924 [13565] From 'Skin and Complexion' to 'Cultivating Charm' – it's all there. With 8 photos of 1920s beauties. Good – in most evocative illustrated paper cover –
chipped – has obviously been read with great attention £8
142. TAYLOR, Barbara Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination CUP 2003 [11898] Soft covers – fine £17
143. THE EDITOR OF 'ENQUIRE WITHIN UPON EVERYTHING' The Practical Housewife: a complete encyclopaedia of domestic economy and family medical guide Houlston & Sons new ed, no date [c 1890s?] [13569] 'Will lessen the cares of domestic management, aid the practice of household economy and prove a help in many emergencies.' The index runs from 'Ablution, the importance of' to 'Zinc ointment'. Good £10
144. THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR BOOK AND DIRECTORY 1904 A & C Black 1904 [10837] Indispensable source of information. Very good internally in library binding £80
145. THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR-BOOK AND DIRECTORY FOR 1888 JUBILEE EDITION Hatchard's 1888 [11772] edited by 'L.M. H.' [Louisa Hubbard], comprising Part I Englishwomen and their work in Queen Victoria's reign and Part II
Directory for 1888. A wonderful source – full of details of names and addresses. Very good and tight in decorative boards, a little darkened and marked with age. Extremely scarce £195
146. THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEARBOOK AND DIRECTORY 1901 A & C Black 1901 [11770] Ed by Emily Janes. Packed with information. Good internally – cloth covers marked – scarce £80
147. THORMAHLEN, Marianne The Brontes and Religion CUP 2004 [12430] Soft covers – fine £30
148. TINDALL, Gillian Three Houses, Many Lives: the story of a Cotswold vicarage, a Surrey boarding school and a London home Vintage 2013 [13417] Once again Gillian Tindall works her magic. I loved it (I bought my own copy!) £5
149. TOBIN, Beth Fowkes Superintending the Poor: charitable ladies and paternal landlords in British fiction, 1770-1860 Yale University Press 1993 [9806] Mint in d/w £18
150. TYLECOTE, Mabel The Education of Women at Manchester University 1883 to 1933 Manchester University Press 1941 [13139] With a newscutting obituary of Dame Mabel Tylecote laid in. Good – scarce £40
151. VALENZE, Deborah The First Industrial Woman OUP 1995 [10786] Examines the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, ideas about economic progress. Charts the birth of a new economic order resting on social and sexual hierarchies which remain a part of our contemporary lives. Soft covers – mint £15
152. VINCE, Mrs Millicent Decoration and Care of the Home W. Collins 1923 [12870] Mrs Vince had been a pupil of the pioneer 'House Decorator', Agnes Garrett. Very good in rubbed d/w £18
153. WALLER, Jane And VAUGHAN-REES, Michael Women in Uniform 1939-45 Papermac 1989 [10344] Paper covers – large format £12
154. WANDOR, Michelene Post-War British Drama: looking back in gender Routledge, revised edition 2001 [5897] Soft covers – mint £12
155. WEST, Rebecca The Young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West 1911-17 Indiana University Press 1982 [11674] Selected and introduced by Jane Marcus. Soft covers – fine £12
156. WILLIAMS, A. Susan Ladies of Influence: women of the elite in interwar Britain Allen Lane 2000 [8087] Studies of, among others, Edith, Marchioness of Londonderry, Katharine, Duchess of Atholl, Nancy Cunard, and Stella, Marchioness of Reading. Fine in very good d/w £12
157. WOODS, Edgar & Diana Things That Are Not Done: an outspoken commentary on popular habits and a guide to correct conduct Universal Publications, no date (1937) [10612] Good £12
158. WREN, M.A. and HACKETT, P. James Allen: portrait enlarged privately printed 1968 [10853] Short biography of James Allen, founder of Dulwich College and JAGS. Soft covers – very good £8
159. ZIMMERMAN, Jan Once Upon the Future: a woman's guide to tomorrow's technology Pandora 1986 [5370] Paper covers – mint £4
160. (ADDAMS) Louise Knight Jane Addams: Spirit in Action, Norton 2011 [13405] Biography of the US campaigner for international peace and social justice. Mint in d/w £10
161. ALLEN, Alexandra Travelling Ladies: Victorian Adventuresses [13198] Studies of Daisy Bates, Isabella Bird Bishop, Midlred Cabele and Evangeline and Francesca French, Alexandra David-Neel, Jane Digby el Mesrab, Kate Marsden, Marianne North and May French Sheldon. Fine in d/w £10
162. (BEALE) Elizabeth Raikes Dorothea Beale of Cheltenham Constable 1908 [11045] Good £15
163. BELL, Alan (ed and with an introduction by) Sir Leslie Stephen's 'Mausoleum Book' OUP 1977 [13199] Intimate autobiography written for Stephen's immediate family after the death of his wife, Julia, the mother of Vanessa and Virginia. Very good in d/w £12
164. BELL, MAUREEN, PARFIT, GEORGE AND SHEPHERD, SIMON A Biographical Dictionary of English Women Writers 1560-1720 G.K. Hall 1990 [11878] Expands the boundaries of what is conventionally recognized as 17th century English literature by uncovering, reintroducing and documenting the lives and works of more than 550 English women who wrote betwen 1580-1720. Fine in d/w £25
165. (BRONTE) Dudley Green Patrick Bronte: father of genius The History Press 2008 [12452] Fine in fine d/w £10
166. (BRONTE) Margaret Smith (ed) Selected Letters of Charlotte Bronte OUP 2010 [13426] With a new introduction by Janet Gezari. Soft covers – mint £3
167. (BRONTES) Brian Wilks The Illustrated Brontes of Haworth: scenes and characters from the lives and writings of the Bronte sisters Collins 1986 [12448] Fine in fine d/w £8
168. CHAPMAN, Barbara Boxing Day Baby QueenSpark Market Books 1994 [10402] She was born in Brighton on Boxing Day in 1927. Soft covers – 34pp – very good £4
169. (CLARKE) Mary G. Clarke A Short Life of Ninety Years privately printed 1973 [11352] An interesting life – born in Aberdeen into the Anderson family (her uncle was Skelton Anderson, husband of Elizabeth Garrett), she attended the local high school, and then went to Girton – before entering a lifetime of teaching, culminating in the headmistress-ship of Manchester High School for Girls. Very good – cover slightly marked £18
170. (COBBE) Frances Power Cobbe Life of Frances Power Cobbe : as told by herself Swan Sonnenschein 1904 [11475] The Posthumous – and best – edition – 'With Additions by the Author and Introduction by Blanche Atkinson'. Fine – rather scarce £75
171. (EDEN) Violet Dickinson (Ed) Miss Eden's Letters Macmillan 1919 [9339] Born, a Whig, in 1797. Her letters are full of social detail. In 1835 she went to India with her brother when he became governor-general. Very good £28
172. (GASKELL) John Chapple (ed) Elizabeth Gaskell: the early years Manchester University Press 1997 [9614] Mint in d/w £18
173. (HAMMOND) Mrs John Hays Hammond A Woman's Part in a Revolution Longmans, Green 1987 [6083] The 'Revolution' was the Boer War – her husband was imprisoned by the Boers. Good £30
174. (HARRISON) Amy Greener A Lover of Books: the life and literary papers of Lucy Harrison J.M. Dent 1916 [11054] Lucy Harrison (a niece of Mary Howitt) studied at Bedford College, then taught for 20 years at a school in Gower St (Charlotte Mew was a pupil at the school and v. attached to Miss Harrison) and then became headmistress of the Mount School, York. Good – pasted onto the free front end paper is a presentation slip from the editor, Amy Greener, to Mary Cotterell £18
175. (HOWARD) Elizabeth Jane Howard Slipstream: a memoir Macmillan 2002 [10523] Fine in d/w £8
176. (HOWE) Valarie Ziegler Diva Julia: the public romance and private agony of Julia Ward Howe Trinity Press International 2003 [11892] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £10
177. (JAMESON) Storm Jameson Journey from the North: autobiography of Storm Jameson Virago 1984 [9685] Soft covers – good – 2 volumes complete £12
178. (JERNINGHAM) Ernest Betham (ed) A House of Letters: being excerpts from the correspondence of Miss Charlotte Jerningham, Lady Jerningham, Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, Bernard and Lucy Barton, and others, with Matilda Betham Jarrolds [2179] 'Also notes of some phases in the evolution of an English family'- the Bethams. Good £28
179. (JEX-BLAKE) Margaret Todd The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake Macmillan 1918 [13515] Interesting biography of a difficult woman – founder of the London School of Medicine for Women. Very good – with slight marking on front cloth cover. £30
180. KELSALL, Helen Berridge House Who's Who, 1893-1957 privately published [1957] [13005] A list of all the pupils and staff of the National Society's Training College for Domestic Subjects – with a short history of the college. Paper covers – good £12
181. LANE, Maggie Literary Daughters Robert Hale 1989 [10844] Studies of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, Beatrix Potter and Virginia Woolf – and their fathers. Very good in d/w £15
182. (LIDDELL) Simon Winchester The Alice Behind Wonderland OUP 2011 [13406] 'Using Charles Dodgson's published writings, private diaries, and of course his photographic portraits, Winchester gently exposes the development of Lewis Carroll and the making of his Alice.' Mint in d/w £6
183. (MARTIN) Sarah Martin A Brief Sketch of the Life of the Late Miss Sarah Martin of Great Yarmouth: with extracts from the Parliamentary Reports on Prisons; her own Prison Journals etc C. Barber (Yarmouth) 2nd ed, 1844 [12756] Prison visitor, dressmaker, Sunday School teacher. Her comments on the prisoners are particularly interesting. Good in original cloth £35
184. MARTINDALE, Hilda Some Victorian Portraits and Others Allen & Unwin 1948 [6071] Biographical essays of members of her circle – including Adelaide Anderson, factory inspector. Very good in d/w £18
185. (MAYNARD) Catherine B. Firth Constance Louisa Maynard: mistress of Westfield College Allen & Unwin 1949 [11033] Very good – scarce £15
186. (MCLAREN) Willis Pickard The Member for Scotland; a life of Duncan McLaren John Donald 2011 [13404] Priscilla Bright McLaren, doyenne of the Edinburgh Suffrage Society, was his (third) wife. Soft covers – mint £15
187. (MOODIE/TRAILL) Charlotte Gray Sisters in the Wilderness: Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, pioneers of the Canadian backwoods Duckworth 2001 [11887] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £12
188. (MORRELL) Robert Gathorne-Hardy (ed) Ottoline:the early memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell; Ottoline at Garsington: memoirs of Lady Ottoline Morrell Faber, 1963 and Faber, 1974 (respectively [9499] Two volumes together, as a set – both good in d/w £28
189. NEWNHAM COLLEGE REGISTER 1871-1950 privately printed [11776] packed with biographical information on students and staff. Soft covers – 2 vols – good – although backing on vol 1 is coming unstuck and outermost cover of vol II is missing- internally very good – scarce £40
190. (NICHOL) Anna Stoddart Elizabeth Pease Nichol Dent 1899 [12999] (1807-1897) Scottish Quaker – daughter of the founder of the Peace Society, suffragist, chartist, anti-vivesectionist. Very good – scarce £35
191. (NORTON) Jane Gray Perkins The Life of Mrs Norton John Murray 1910 [3537] Very good £16
192. (NOURSE) Mary Alice Keekin Burke Elizabeth Nourse, 1859-1938: a salon career National Museum of American Art 1983 [6767] A study of the artist. Soft covers – large format – many illustrations – very good £15
193. (PHILIPS) Philip Webster Souers The Matchless Orinda Harvard University Press 1931 [9602] An account of the life of Mrs Katherine Philips, the first woman in England to gain the reputation of a poetess.Good – ex university library £28
194. (PUREFOY) G. Eland (ed) Purefoy Letters 1735-1753 Sidgwick & Jackson 1931 [9338] The letters of Elizabeth Purefoy (1672-1765), whose husband died in 1704, and her son, Henry Purefoy. Elizabeth Purefoy was, as her epitaph recorded, 'a woman of excellent understanding, prudent and frugal' and her letters are full of domestic detail. Very good – two volumes £40
195. (RHYS) Francis Wyndham And Diana Melly (eds) Jean Rhys Letters 1931-1966 Deutsch 1984 [9507] Very good in d/w £12
196. (RICHARDSON) Gloria G. Fromm (ed) Windows on Modernism: selected letters of Dorothy Richardson University of Georgia Press 1995 [6766] Over 700pp – mint in d/w £55
197. (ROBINS) Octavia Wilberforce Backsettown & Elizabeth Robins published for private circulation 1952 [13258] A little tribute – telling how Elizabeth Robins came to set up the retreat at Backsettown in Sussex. With lovely photograph of Elizabeth Robins tipped in as frontispiece. Fine in paper wraps – with a birthday inscription on free front endpaper – scarce £38
198. [RUSKIN] Mary Lutyens (ed) Young Mrs Ruskin in Venice: the picture of society and life with John Ruskin 1849-1852 Vanguard Press (NY) 1965 [13200] Very good in d/w £12
199. (SIMPSON) Morrice McCrae Simpson: the turbulent life of a medical pioneer Birlinn 2011 [13433] The discoverer of 'the blessed chloroform' and, as such, an important figure in 'woman's sphere'. Soft covers – mint £5
200. (STANLEY) Jane H. Adeane (ed) The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha Lady Stanley, with extracts from Sir John Stanleys 'Praeterita' Longmans, Green 1899 [1675] Follows the life of the engaging Maria Josepha from 1797 until 1817 – much social detail. Very good internally – in rubbed and bumped decorative binding £10
201. STARK, Freya The Coast of Incense: autobiography 1933-1939 John Murray 1953 [10564] Covers her travels in Egypt, the Middle East and South Arabia. Good in chipped d/w £6
202. (STOREY) Joyce Storey Our Joyce Broadsides 1987 [10389] Life in pre-Second World War Bristol. Soft covers – very good £4
203. (STOREY) Joyce Storye Joyce's War 1939-1945 Virago 1992 (r/p) [13482] Soft covers -very good £4
204. (STUART) Hon. James A. Home (ed) Letters of Lady Louisa Stuart to Miss Louisa Clinton David Douglas (Edinburgh) 1901 & 1903 [13335] Two volumes – complete set. The first volume covers the period 1817 to 1825 and the second volume (called 'Second Series') that from1826 to 1834. Society observed. Very good – two volumes together £38
205. (TENNYSON) James O. Hoge Lady Tennyson's Journal University Press of Virginia 1981 [9675] Fine in d/w £18
206. (THACKERAY) John Aplin Memory and Legacy: A Thackeray Family Biography 1876-1919 Lutterworth Press 2011 [13409] Draws extensively on private collection of descendants of the 19th-century Thackerays and focuses principally on the later years of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, whose amazingly intricate network of family and friendships offers fresh insights into the artistic milieu of the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. Soft covers – very good £15
207. (TREFUSIS) Philippe Jullian And PHILLIPS, John Violet Trefusis: a biography including correspondence with Vita Sackville-West Methuen 1986 [10164] Soft covers – good £7
208. (TROUBRIDGE) Jaqueline Hope-Nicholson (ed) Life Amongst the Troubridges: journals of a young Victorian 1873-1884 by Laura Troubridge John Murray 1966 [9324] Very good in rubbed d/w £10
209. (TUCKER) Agnes Giberne A Lady of England: the life and letters of Charlotte Maria Tucker Hodder & Stoughton 1895 [9599] The standard biography of a popular children's and religious writer – who spent the later years of her life as a missionary in India. Good – though ex-university library £28
210. (TWINING) Louisa Twining Recollections of My Life and Work Edward Arnold 1893 [10625] She was an early 'social worker' – involved with workhouse visiting, promoting the idea of poor law inspectors and was herself a poor law guardian. Very good – scarce £68
211. UGLOW, Jennifer (ed) The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography Macmillan 1984 [7143] Soft covers – very good £10
212. (VICTORIA) Agatha Ramm (ed) Beloved and Darling Child: last letters between Queen Victoria and her eldest daughter 1886-1901 Alan Sutton 1990 [6509] Mint in d/w £10
213. (VICTORIA) Dorothy Marshall The Life and Times of Victoria Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1992 (r/p) [6510] Lavishly illustrated. Mint in d/w £10
214. (WARWICK) Charlotte Fell-Smith Mary Rich, Countess of Warwick (1625-1678), her family and friends Longmans, Green 1901 [1754] Very good £45
215. (WHARTON) R.W.B. Lewis And Nancy Lewis The Letters of Edith Wharton Simon & Schuster 1988 [9747] Fine in fine d/w – 654pp £12
216. (WOLLSTONECRAFT) William Godwin Memoir of Mary Wollstonecraft Constable 1928 [6080] The edition that retrieved the memoir from oblivion. Very good in chipped d/w £20
217. (WRIGHT) Margaret Lane Frances Wright and the 'Great Experiment' Manchester University Press 1972 [6081] An Owenite – the 'Great Experiment' was Nashoba, a utopian community in America. Very good £18
218. The Home Friend (New Series) SPCK 1854 [8313] 4 vols of miscellany of fact and fiction. Very good in embossed decorative original cloth – together £45
219. ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE EMPLOYMENT OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWORK Report of Meeting Held at the Westminster Town Hall on Wed Nov 12th 1902 [13043] The Association was formed in 1897 and was disbanded in 1905. The Association's aim, at its most basic, of promoting the employment of middle-class young women – ie those who had attended high schools – in working-class – ie elementary – schools. 'Higher teachers are now at last waking up to the absolute necessity of training, and Elementary teachers are far more cultured than they were five or ten years ago.'16-pp pamphlet – good £4
220. ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT MISTRESSES Education Policy (with special reference to Secondary Education) AAM no date (1920s?) [13042] 4-pp leaflet. Good – ex-Board of Education library £2
221. ASSOCIATION OF ASSISTANT MISTRESSES IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS The Teaching of English 1907 [12706] A paper given by Miss C.L. Thomson at the 1907 Annual Meeting of the Association. 16-pp pamphlet – good – ex-Board of Education library £8
222. ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES Memorandum Forwarded to the President of the Board of Education, 5 Jan 1907 [12698] 8-pp pamphlet dealing with the issue of the length of the school day and whether afternoon classes should be compulsory or optional. Good – ex-Board of Education libary £5
223. ASSOCIATION OF TECHNICAL INSTITUTIONS Collection of Proceedings at the Annual General Meetings [13223] 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 £20
224. ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN TEACHERS Thirtieth Annual Report, 1912-1913 AUWT 1914 [13216] Includes a (slightly surprisingly) long list of the members. Soft covers – good – ex-Board of Education Library £10
225. BINFIELD, Clyde Belmont's Portias: Victorian nonconformists and middle-class education for girls Dr Williams' Trust 1981 [9158] The 35th Friends of Dr Williams's Library Lecture. Paper covers – 35pp – good – scarce £18
226. BOARD OF EDUCATION List of Elementary Schools and Training Colleges under the Administration of the Board 1902-1903 HMSO 1903 [13333] The lists include the number of pupils at each school, the average attendance and the amount the school received in an annual grant. This is bound with (1) 'Lists of Secondary Schools, Science and Art Schools and Classes, and Evening Schools under the Administration of the Board 1902-1903'. The lists give details of the number of pupils attending day and night classes in both Science and in Art and the total ammount allocated in grants to each school.
(2) 'Evening Schools Aided by Parliamentary Grants', giving the number of pupils receiving grants. Packed with information on schools and classes in England and Wales. Leather bound, 193pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £28
227. BRITISH ASSOCIATION 'The Free-Place' System British Association 1918 [13477] 'Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr A.A. Buckmaster (Chairman), Mr Douglas Berridge (Sec), Mr C.H. Bothamley, Dr Lilian J. Clarke, Prof Barbara Foxley, Dr W. Garnett, Prof R.A. Gregory, Prof H. Bompas Smith, Dr H. Lloyd Snape and Miss C.M. Waters, appointed to inquire into and report upon the Effects of the 'Free-Place' System upon Secondary Education'. 'This Free-place system is a name given to an arrangement by which, in return for certain State grants administered by the Board of Education, seconday schools, working in connection with the Board, offer a certain number of places in the school, free of all tuition fees, to pupils who have had at least two years' previous education in public elementary schools/ Very interesting insight into secondary education at the end of the First World War. 13-pp – good reading copy – ex-Board of Education Library £8
228. BRITTAIN, Vera (introduces) Prisoners' Circle: essays by ex-prisoners Prison Medical Reform Council 1943 [12280] Paper covers – 32pp – good £5
229. BRONTE SOCIETY GAZETTE [12065] Issues for 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 (issues 23-26 inc). Fine – together £6
230. BRONTE SOCIETY TRANSACTION [12069] issues from vol 25 part 1 (April 2000)-vol 35 number 2 (July 2010) inclusive. 13 in all. Fine- each issue £1
231.BRONTE SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS [12066] Vol 20, part 4, 1991. Fine £1
232.BRONTE SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS [12067] vol 22 (1997). Fine £1
233.BRONTE SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS [12068] vol 23, part 1 (April 1998). Fine £1
234. BUTLER, Josephine (ed) The Storm Bell Ladies' National Association for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice Feb 1899 [9802] Single issue. Contains the rather touching notice: 'If there should occasionally be some delay or irregularity in the appearance of the Storm Bell, I beg my Friends to judge its Editor leniently….As I have no Sub-Editor, it will be understood that it is not always easy to prepare even so humble a periodical as this, in time to be out exactly at the right date.' Fine – scarce £28
235. CARPENTER, J. Estlin The Promotion of International Peace Through Universities National Peace Council 1912 [13210] 'A Paper read at the Eighth National Peace Congress, 1912'. 12-pp – paper covers – good – ex-Board of Education Library £8
236. CHARITY ORGANISATION REVIEW Vol X (New Series) July To Dec 1901 Longmans, Green 1902 [9244] half-yearly bound volume of the COS's own magazine. Very good £28
237. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY Right and Wrong as to School Feeding COS 1906 [9237] Facts and figures. Paper covers – 8pp – very good – unusual £18
238. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY D.R. Sharpe Centralised Registration of Assistance COS 1911 [9236] Paper read on 31 May 1911 at the Annual National Conference of Charity Organisation Societies. Paper covers – 14pp pamphlet – good – unusual £18
239. CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY Miss Pike Friendly Visiting and Personal Service COS 1911 [9238] Paper read on 1 June 1911 at the Annual National Conference of Charity Organisation Societies. Paper covers – 11pp – good – a little foxing – unusual £20
240. CO-OPERATIVE HOLIDAYS ASSOCIATION [12798] 3-pp pamphlet, reprinted from 'Modern Language Teaching', June 1910, setting out the work of this Associaiton, which had begun by the Congregational Church in industrial Lancashire, together with
Annual Reports for the year ending Sept 30th, 1910 and Annual Report for the year ending Sept 30th 1911. Interesting – 3 items – the Annual Reports v good – the pamphlet rubbed and split (with no loss of text) – ex-Board of Education library – as a collection £15
241. COUNCIL OF WOMEN CIVIL SERVANTS Higher Appointments Open to Women in the Civil Service P.S. King 1928 [12709] 'It is believed that the number and the importance of the careers in the Civil Service open to women are not fully recognised…'. 8-pp pamphlet – good- ex-Board of Education library. £10
242. DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE TRAINING APPOINTMENT AND PAYMENT OF PROPBATION OFFICERS Report of the Departmental Committee on the Training, Appointment and Payment of Probation Officers HMSO 1922 [12292] Paper covers – 32pp – fair – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
243. ELIZA COOK'S JOURNAL VOLS 1-3 [8594] Runs from issue 1, 5 May 1849 to issue 156, 24 April 1852. Very good condition – half leather and marbled boards. Each vol £38
244. FABIAN WOMEN'S GROUP Summary of Eight Papers and Discussions upon the Disabilities of Mothers as Workers Fabian Women's Group (Private Circulation) 1910 [12973] Papers by Mrs Pember Reeves, Dr Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer, Mrs Spence Weiss, Mrs Bartrick Baker, Mrs Stanbury, Mrs S.K. Ratcliffe, Miss B.L. Hutchins, Mrs O'Brien Harris. Paper covers – good £15
245. FEDERATION OF SOCIETIES OF TEACHERS IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION [13329] Two of the Federation's annual reports. First Annual Report (Oct 1935-Sept 1936), 6pp; Fourth Annual Report (October 1938-Dec 1939), 12pp. Both soft covers, both very good. Together £12
246. GARDNERS' TRUST FOR THE BLIND Report of the Conference on Matters relating to the Blind Farmer and Sons 1902 [13222] The Conference was held at the Church House, Westminster on 22, 23, 23 April 1902. 258pp in original boards – good – ex-Board of Education Library £18
247. GIRLS' OWN ANNUAL, Oct 1891- Sept 1892 [2459] Very good internally – with Extra Christmas Number 1891 and Extra Summer Number 1892 bound in- in publisher's binding – spine leather rubbed and torn. Includes the colour reproduction of a painting by Kate Greenaway. Heavy £30
248. GIRLS' OWN ANNUAL, Oct 1896-Sept 1897 [3123] Very good internally – in slightly worn publisher's binding. Includes a series of articles on 'What are the provincial county councils doing for girls?' and all the usual wonderful mix – plus the Extra Christmas Number and an extra Diamond Jubilee Number. Heavy £20
249. HARRIS, E.M. Married Women in Industry Institute of Personnel Management 1954 [12293] Paper covers – 30pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
250. HARTLEY COLLEGE, SOUTHAMPTON [12781] The precursor to Southampton University, Hartley College was founded in 1862, becoming a University College in 1902. This collection comprises prospectuses for: Day Classes in Arts and Science and Applied Science for sessions, 1899-1900, 1900-1901, 1901-1902. Prospectus for: Day Classes in Arts and Science and Engineering 1902-1903. Prospectuses for Day Classes in Arts and Science 1904-1905; 1905-1906, 1906-1907, 1907-1908. Prospectuses for Evening Classes 1899-1900, 1901-1902, 1902-1903, 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1906-1907, 1907-1908. Prospectuses for Day and Evening Classes of the School of Art 1899-1900, 1901-1902. Prospectuses for the Day Training College for Men and Women 1902-1903, 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1906-1907, 1907-1908. Prospectuses for Day Classes suitable for Medical and Dental Students 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1907-1908. Prospectuses for Day Classes in Civil, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering 1904-1905, 1905-1906, 1906-1907, 1907-1908. All the courses cited were open to women as well as men. All in good condition – ex-Board of Education library – 29 items – as a collection £75
251. HARTOG, P.J. The Owens College, Manchester Co-operative Printing Society 1895 [13224] A description and history of the College – with photographs. Originally presented by the author to Michael Sadler – paper covers – 31pp – ex-Board of Education Library £5
252. HOMERTON COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE [12782] Reports of the Congregational Board of Education on its Training College, Homerton Undenominational College – for the years ending 30 June 1900, 1901, 1902., 1903, 1905. All in good condition – ex Board of Education library – 3 items together £28
253. HOSMER, Harriet [13465] 2pp handwritten letter, on black-edged note paper, written by the American sculptor, Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908), from her studio in Rome – at '38 Gregoriana'. She is inviting 'Mrs Newton' to her studio and giving details of the times of her 'open house'. Mrs Newton, with her husband, is in Rome on a visit. There is no date – but probably 1860s or 1870s? Fine £20
254. HOUSEWIFE [13578] 3 issues of this popular magazine – for April & August 1941 and September 1943. Packed with evocative advertisements – and war-time making-do. Interesting. Good – three together £8
255. HUTCHINS, B.L. Women's Industrial Career Sheratt & Hughes Oct 1909 [3631] Reprinted from The Sociological Review. Paper covers – good £9
256. INDUSTRIAL HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Absence from Work:
Prevention of Fatigue HMSO no date (1944) [12288] Life of the war-worker. Paper covers – 20pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £4
257. INDUSTRIAL HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD OF THE MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL Why Is She Away?:
the problem of sickness among women in industry HMSO no date (1945) [12295] Soft covers – 22pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £4
258. [JEX-BLAKE] Margaret Todd Sophia Jex-Blake [13519] Obituary article by Jex-Blake's close friend – reprinted from the Royal Free Hospital Magazine. 8-pp – printed by the Women's Printing Society – fine – in paper covers £12
259. JEX-BLAKE, Sophia Medical Education for Women 1872 [13518] 'The substance of a lecture delivered on April 26th 1872, in St George's Hall, London, The Rt Hon, the Earl of Shaftesbury in the Chair'. The lecture is enhanced by a multitude of footnotes and appendices. Paper wrappers – 86pp. All is good – except that the bottom few lines of pp83-86 (inc) and the back wrapper have disappeared – damp? Very scarce – COPAC lists copies held only at Bristol, Sheffield, Glasgow, LSE & the Women's Library @ LSE. £55
260. KLEIN, Viola Employing Married Women Institute of Personnel Management 1961 [12291] Paper covers – 52pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
261. LONDON INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF PLAIN NEEDLEWORK Annual Report for the Year ending September 30th, 1909 1909 [13041] 24pp – good in card covers – ex-Board of Education library £8
262. LONDON PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION COUNCIL Report Jan 1904-June 30, 1905 1905 [12553] The Council's suggested election policy for the forthcoming 1906 General Election included, amongst other items, 'All schools maintained by public money should be under complete public management and control.' 'The Council is the only organisation i London for promoting the principles of National Education, efficient, progressive, free, unsectarian, and under popular control'. With a list of donors and subscribers. 4-pp – good £2
263. LONDON (ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL) SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOR WOMEN (UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) [13520] An appeal to build an extension – c 1915. Consists of a brief history of the School and photographs -interior and exterior – of the building and its begetters. Fine £25
264. MACCARTHY, Fiona Work for Married Women Conservative Political Centre 1966 [12297] Paper covers – 18pp – good- withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
265. McMILLAN, Margaret The Future of Our Young People Co-operative Union 1911 [12743] Paper covers – 12pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £12
266. Manchester High School for Girls [11374] Letter dated 2 April 1873 from Edward Freeman (Somerleaze, Wells, Somerset) writes to 'My dear Lord' (possibly a Bishop?) 'I see your name as a "patron" of the new Girls School to be set up at Manchester. ..I would venture to recommend a candidate for the place of Head Mistress, which I hear that the Committee are going about to fill.' His recommendation is Miss Macarthur 'who has been governess in my house for nearly five years. ..She is in correspondence with Miss Vernon, to whom Mrs Kitchener first spoke of her…I think the best witness of my opinion of her is that I have set her to write one of my series of small histories, a History of Scotland which I hope will be out soon.' 'though she does not actually understand Latin and Greek, she knows all abou them..' Unfortunately Miss Macarthur was not appointed; there being far better qualified candidates competing for this sought after position. She was Margaret A.R. Macarthur, born in Scotland in 1842 and was the author of 'History of Scotland' in Freeman's Historical Course for Schools. It would be interesting to find out what happened to her. Mss – 4pp – fine £45
267. MINISTRY OF LABOUR AND NATIONAL SERVICE Time Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour HMSO 1952 [12298] Covers every type of employment for coal mining to cinema usherette. Paper covers – 248pp £8
268. MORAL INSTRUCTION LEAGUE Our Future Citizens: how is character cultivated in board schools MIL 1900 [13022] 16-pp pamphlet – ex-Board of Education library £4
269. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF GIRLS' CLUBS Clubs and Club Making University of London Press 1943 [12747] A history – and then 13 chapters on how to run a club. Soft covers – 104pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £12
270. NATIONAL FEDERATION OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S CLUBS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND The Changing Pattern: report on the training of older woman NFBPWC 1966 [12296] Paper covers – 24pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
271. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN WORKERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Collection of Conference Reports [13207] Papers Read at the Conferences held at Cheltenham and Gloucester, 1903; Birmingham, 1905; Tunbridge Wells, 1906; Manchester, 1907; Aberdeen, 1908; and Lincoln, 1910. The Papers cover a wide range of the subjects close to the heart of the actively philanthropic women involved with the NUWW. The speakers included, at random, Margaret Bondfield, Henrietta Barnett, Millicent Fawcett, Sarah Siddons Mair, Eunice Murray, Honnor Morten, Mrs George Cadbury, Dorothea Beale, Sarah Burstall, Mary MacArthur, Sarah Dickenson and Margaret Irwin. 6 volumes – good reading copies – they have been disbound at some point from an all-encompassing binding and the sewing is no longer tight. Ex-Board of Education Library. Scarce. As a collection £80
272. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLMASTERS Co-education or Separation? no date (pre 1914) [13028] 12-pp pamphlet in card covers – ex-Board of Education library £2
273. PALLISTER, Minnie Socialism for Women ILP no date [1924] [12759] 'Not only the "Intelligent" Women but for all Women' – with a nod to G.B. Shaw. Paper covers -18-pp pamphlet – good £18
274. PAUPER HOSPITALS AND SCHOOLS Return of 'all district and separate pauper hospitals (including asylums of the Metropolitan Asylum District), also of district and separate pauper schools, built during the past ten years; giving the name of hospital or school; names of unions contribution; class of inmates; extent of area; cost of site; cost of building; number of inmates; exclusive of officers; cost per head on number to be accommodated; and number of inmates on 1 May 1885 HMSO 1885 [9205] 6 foolscap pages. Very good – disbound £20
275. REFORMATORIES AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS (COMMITTALS) Returns showing the comparative number of committals of boys and girls to reformatories and industrial schools April 1872 [9150] 'Shows comparative number of committals of boys and girls to reformatories and industrial schools in 1870, with the number of cases in which the parents have been charged with such payment towards their children's cost at such schools as may be considered equal to the expense they are saved by so throwing their children on public support, together with a comparative statement of the number of cases in which such charge has been adjudged, with that of the charges actually recovered and regularly paid.' Raw facts. 4 foolscap pp – disbound £28
276. REGULATIONS FOR THE CATHOLIC GIRLS' SCHOOL AT UGBROOK Printed by J.E. Searle (Chudleigh) 1841 [2052] 'Approved by the Rt Revd the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England, for the Catholic Girls School at Ugbrook, in the County of Devon, under the protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Joseph'.'The Catholic girls' School at Ugbrook is intended by Lord Clifford to be henceforth solely for the education of the female children of those who are or have been tenants, servants, or labourers on his estate, or tradesmen in the employ of his family at Ugbrook…' Together with 'Catholic Confirmation at Ugbrook', reprinted from 'The Western Times', 8 January 1842. 'Thinking that a report of the proceedings [the Confirmation] would be interesting to our readers, on account of the peculiar form of the ceremony itself …and more especially on account of the inroad made into the Protestant flock of the deserted vicarage of Chudleigh..' Two items – card covers – very good – together £25
277. REPORT OF THE MABYS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE OF YOUNG GIRLS, 1922 1923 [12723] Founded by Mrs Nassau Senior in 1874 'to befriend and protect the girls brought up in the Guardians' Schools, and those of other Public Authorities in the Metropolitan area. The Association tries to ensure for these girls the same chances in life and the same status as those girls who have been brought up in their own homes'. This Annual Report gives full detail of the Mabys work – the homes it ran – and its workers and supporters. Good – 34pp – ex-Board of Education library £15
278. REVIEW OF REVIEWS [3887] edited by W.T. Stead. the first volume, January-June 1890. As Stead spotted, here was a gap in the market, enabling the interested observer to keep a finger on the pulse of the world. With v useful indexes to articles in current periodicals. Very good £25
279. ROBERT BROWNING HALL SERIES OF SOCIAL TRACTS: nO 2 The Labour Movement in Religion [13227] Talk by the Warden, Herbert Stead on 6 Jan 1895. Paper covers – 8pp – fair – ex-Board of Education Library £3
280. ROBERT BROWNING HALL SOCIAL TRACTS: NO 1 The State and the Unemployed by Sir John Gorst MP [13226] A speech delivered by Gorst on 9 May 1895 in Robert Browning Hall, Walworth. 8-pp leaflet – fair – ex-Board of Education Library £4
281. SENIOR, Mrs Nassau Pauper Schools HMSO 1875 [10457] 'Copy "of a Letter addressed to the President of the Local Government Board by Mrs Nassau Senior, lately an Inspector of the Board, being a reply to the observation of Mr Tufnell, also a former inspector upon her report on pauper schools'. This was a follow-up to Mrs Senior's 1874 report.
24pp – large format – disbound. £55
282. SHAFTS ed. by Margaret Shurmer Sibthorpe 1892 [12501] Volume 1 – issue no 1 – 3 Nov 1892 – of this 'progressive' radical woman's paper. This first issue contains an article on The Pioneer Club – whose – members were just the readership at which 'Shafts' was aiming – on 'Type-Writing as an Employment for Women' – on 'Social Purity' by 'A Working Woman' – and a review by Frances Lord (first English translator of Ibsen) of 'Peter Ibbetson' by George du Maurier.- noted as the first in a series of 'short notes on Books containing Occult, Psychical or Mystical Teaching.' 'Shafts' caught the fin-de-siècle zeitgeist. First issue – very good condition – very scarce £48
283. SIR HENRY JONES [11407] writes a glowing testimonial for his former pupil, Mabel Atkinson, a candidate for a lectureship at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire. She was a graduate of Glasgow University and was then a research student at LSE, a Fabian and a suffragette. .LSE Library holds some material on her. Fine £48
284. SMALL COLLECTION DOCUMENTING THE ACADEMIC PROGRESS OF MURIEL LONG AT THE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, WEST KIRBY 1920-1926 [12613] The tenor of Muriel's school reports is 'very fair' – and we all know what that means. But she was clearly much younger than the average age of the class and does quite well in maths and science. Generally her conduct is 'very good' but at least one report notes 'rather noisy in the class room'.Included in the collection are a number of programmes for Speech Day and Annual Sports. In 1926 Muriel went on to Underwood Commercial College in Liverpool to learn shorthand and typing (1st in the class in 'Office Routine'). I think Muriel married in 1940 and died in 2006 – leaving bequests to Venice in Peril and the Royal Overseas League – so it doesn't look as though being graded only 'very fair' at Scripture, Ancient History etc had prevented her taking an interest. An eclectic collection of material £45
285. SMITH, Protheroe Introductory Address to the Course of Clinical Lectures at the Hospital for Women for the session of 1883-84 delivered October 11th 1883 J & A Churchill 1883 [3362] Protheroe Smith was one of the founders of the Soho Square hospital that specialised in the treatment of the diseases specific to women. Interesting summary of his views on the treatment of women. Paper covers – 11pp – very good £25
286. TEACHERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Collection of Annual Reports [13217] Reports for 1896-1897; 1897; 1899; 1900; 1901-1902; 1904-1905; 1905-1906; 1906; 1907-1908; 1908; 1909-10; 1910; 1911-12. The Guild represented both male and female teachers. With much detail of local branches. Each Report c 90pp, in original paper covers (the occasional cover present, but detached) – all in good condition. Together – 13 items £80
287. TEACHERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND List of Members Alphabetically Arranged 1913 [13218] Names and addresses – very useful. Women teachers appear to be in the majority. Soft covers – good – ex-Board of Education Library £15
288. THE ACLAND CHRONICLE April 1903 [12684] The second number of the 'Acland Chronicle' recording the work of the Acland Club for boys and girls that was associated with the Women's University Settlement. Good in original wrppers – ex-Board of Education library £8
289. THE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1903 1903 [13045] Card covers – good – ex-Board of Education Library £10
290. THE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1905 1905 [13046] Card covers – good – ex-Board of Education library £10
291. THE FELLOWSHIP CLUB LTD [13330] 'The Fellowship Club was opened by Mrs M.I. Scott in 1921…The object of the Club is to provide an international centre, resident and non-resident, for those who are in sympathy with modern progressive movements'. The Club was at 45,46, 51 and 52 Lancaster Gate. This booklet contains four photos of the Club as well as details of its services (eg totally vegetarian catering) and charges. Soft covers – good – unusual £12
292. THE HOME ARTS & INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION A Collection of the Association's Reports [13332] The Home Arts & Industries Association was founded in 1884 by Eglantyne Jebb and was instrumental in spearheading a revived interest in the craft movement. The Association had its office and studios in the Royal Albert Hall. The collection comprises the Reports for 1902, 1905, 1906 (1 two-sided leaflet and a 4-pp leaflet setting out barest details of the Association, which appears to have been undergoing a financial crisis. I am not sure whether there were reports for 1907 and 1908), 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918. Most in very good condition (that for 1902 may be disbound, front page is present, but loose). – ex-Board of Education Library. Together £55
293. THE LEAGUE OF SERVICE Report, 1910-1911 [12737] 'The League of Service exists to bring such influences to bear upon the physical conditions and the homes of the chidlren of the nation that each child may at least begin life with a fair chance of attaining full development.' The Report details the League's work – in London only – with centres at King's Cross, Marylebone and Battersea, each with its own 'Mothers' Dining Room'. Paper covers – 20pp -very good – ex-Board of Education library £15
294. THE TEACHERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND Scheme of Proposed Teachers' Guild Friendly Society (Sickness and Accident Fund) 1897 [13220] Insurance for teachers. The contributions for women teachers is set higher arising 'from the fact that amonst women the frequency, if not the duration of sickness, is very much greater than amongst men of coresponding ages, and to provide for both on the same terms would be inequitable and unsafe.' Soft covers – 12pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £8
295. THE UPLANDS ASSOCIATION The Uplands Circular [13475] The Uplands Association was an organisation pledged to reform school life and teaching. Its first principle was 'All types of schooling to be pursued as far as climatic conditions will permit in the open air'. They ran a Summer School each year at Glastonbury and issued a newsletter 'The Uplands Circular'. Issue for Feb 1922. Good – 8pp – ex-Board of Education Library £3
296. THE WOMEN'S BRANCH FEDERATION Fifth Annual Report, 1912-13 [12744] 'Affiliated to the Social Institutes' Union' – 'unites existing Clubs and Social Institutes for women and girls of the industrial community by promoting amongst them mutual interest and friendly intercourse.' Good – in original wrappers – 16pp – 2 photos -ex-Board of Education lbirary £12
297. THE WOMEN'S BRANCH FEDERATION Sixth Annual Report, 1913-14 [12745] 'We can only conclude by saying that we have endeavoured to raise the standard of London Working Girls by encouraging them to take pleasure in interesting study, and employ their leisure hours in healthy and wholesome recreation.' With details of all the affiliated Clubs. Paper covers – 16pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £12
298. THE WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF SERVICE Report, 1911-1912 [12738] The League of Service was now renamed – and, in addition to those detailed in the 1910-11 Report, now had Centres in Hammersmith, Croydon and Bristol. Paper covers – 34pp – very good – ex-Board of Education library £15
299. THREE WOMEN'S WORK [7170] Exhibition of Three Women's Work, held at the Arlington Gallery in June 1934. The women were Lady Gertrude Crawford (Gold Medallist of the Worshipful Company of Turners), Phyllis Coryndon (Exhibitor of Needlework at the Royal Society of Miniature Painters), and Mary Ireland (the Originator of Fabric Mosaic). Catalogue of the exhibition – 8pp – giving details of the exhibitors' backgrounds and listing the works for sale, with the prices asked. Good £5
300. VICTORIA UNIVERSITY:THE OWEN'S COLLEGE MANCHESTER Prospectus of the Arts, Science, and Law Department and Department for Women and of Evening and Popular Courses [12683] Prospectuses for Sessions 1896-7, 1898-9, 1899-1900, including full details of the contents of all courses. In good condition in original wrappers (the wrapper for 1896-7 torn and detached) – -each prospectus c 170pp – ex-Board of Education library.. 3 items – as a collection £45
301. WHITE, Florence The Spinsters Manifesto!!: a detailed statement of the case for contributory (non-retiring) pensions at 55 National Spinsters Pensions Association 1945 [11346] 'We herewith present the case for pension consideration for single women at 55, trusting that after perusal you will be impressed by the reasonable nature of the reform advocated, agreeing with us that single women are indeed the OVERLOOKED SECTION in the present Social Insurance Proposals'. Pamphlet -12pp – fine £28
302. WILKINS, Mrs Roland The Training and Employment of Education Women in Horticulture and Agriculture Women's Farm and Garden Association 1927 [13213] Soft covers – 52pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £25
303.A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE Abortion Law Reform Association Why we must fight the Abortion (Amendment) Bill and how to go about it [13197] 20-pp pamphlet giving 'Some Information about the Abortion (Amendment) Bill' – and including a 'List of Members of Parliament who voted AGAINST the Bill's Second Reading, 7 Feb 1975) £8
304. WOMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD 35th Annual Report, 1 May 1917-30 April 1918 [12750] Paper covers – 24pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £12
305. WOMEN'S CO-OPERATIVE GUILD 36th Annual Report 1 May 1918-30 April 1919 [12751] Paper covers – good – ex-Board of Education library £12
306. WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT FEDERATION Memorandum on Openings and Trainings for Women, 1947-8 [12731] Packed with information on what post-war work opportunities were open to women – from Accountancy to Youth Leadership. With illuminating ads. Paper covers – 66pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £15
307. WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL Annual Report, 1904-5 [12703] packed with information on the work of the WIC – including that of its Central Lending Library for Working Girls' Clubs, its Central Association for Circulating Pictures (to Girls' Clubs), a list of its lectures, names of its subscribers etc. Paper covers – very good – ex-Education Library £15
308. WOMEN'S INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL Nineteenth Annual Report 1912-13 [12704] Includes a long, v interesting and wide-ranging list of lectures given – as well as details of the work undertaken by the council – including the trades into which it had undertaken investigations. Paper covers – very good – ex-Board of Education library £15
309. WOMEN'S IMPERIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION The Cry of the Children to the Mothers of Great Britain c. 1912 [12522] 1. 'Please let me sleep in a cot all to myself and keep my nursery window open'. 2. 'Please nurse me yourself (as God meant you to) till I am nine months old.' etc. There are 10 'cries'. Single-sided sheet – fine condition £15
310. WOMEN'S NATIONAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND The Care of the Baby! c 1912 [12523] 'This leaflet tells us How to Save the Babies and how to bring them up to ber strong'. 4-pp leaflet beginning with 'Advice on the care of Infants' – which includes 'Porter or wine should not be taken' – by the nursing mother, that is, though later on the advice is 'Never give a baby sips of whiskey, porter or the like'. Distributed by the Women's Imperial Health Association' – the rubber stamp of which appears on the back page. Very good condition £20
311. WOODFIELD 1951 [11792] 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.' £5
312. BEDFORD COLLEGE The Common Room [13254] Real photographic card – I can see a print of G. F.Watts' 'Hope' among the pictures – and is that a portrait of Emily Penrose over the fireplace? I'm not sure. Very good – printed in Berlin so probably dates from pre-1914 – unposted £10
313. CLARK'S COLLEGE, CIVIL SERVICE Preparing for the Lady Clerk's G.P.O. Exam [9233] Photograph of the young women preparing for this exam which, if they passed, offered a chance of bettering themselves. Very good – unposted £12
314. GEORGE LANSBURY, MP, LCC [13279] real photographic postcard published by the Church Socialist League, London branch, pre – First World War. Fine – unposted £25
315. HORTICULTURAL COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, HEXTABLE [12876] real photographic postcard of Hextable House, home of Swanley Horticultural College (for details of which see Crawford, 'Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle'). The card was posted on 19 Jan 1918 from, I assume, a student to her mother, with the message 'Have arrived safely.' Good £8
316. MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL FOR GIRLS [11781] Real photographic postcard of the exterior of the Crosby, Liverpool, girls' school. The ink message on the back includes 'The view is of Aunty Nina's school..' and continues onto the front of the card on white space to the side of the photograph. Posted in, I think, 1933. Good £10
317. KITTY GILLOW [10700] poses in top hat and tails – with cigar. A latter-day music-hall actress, she has signed her photograph – which was taken in Jersey in 1964 £5
318. MISS ELLA SHIELDS B. Feldman 1914 [10675] sings 'Just One Kiss – Just Another One' and is photographed in top hat and tails on the cover of the sheet music. The song was written by William Hargreaves and Dan Lipton. Very god £7
319. MISS ELLA SHIELDS Campbell, Connelly & Co 1925 [10678] sings 'Show Me the Way to Go Home', written by Irving King, and is photographed as an awkward young man on the cover of the sheet music. Good £6
320. MISS ELLA SHIELDS Lawrence Wright 1925 [10681] sings 'When the Bloom is On the Heather' and is photographed in top hat and tails on the cover of the sheet music. Very good £6
321. MISS ELLA SHIELDS Francis, Day & Hunter 1927 [10682] sings 'I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover' and is photographed in close up on the cover wearing her top hat and white bow tie. Fair – some marks on cover £5
322. MISS ELLA SHIELDS Lawrence Wright 1929 [10688] sings 'Home in Maine' and is photographed in sailor attire on cover of sheet music. Good £6
323. MISS HETTY KING Francis, Day & Hunter 1908 [10684] sings 'I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark' and is photographed on the cover of the sheet music in extravagantly elegant top hat and tails. Very good £7
324. MISS NORA DELANEY Lawrence Wright 1929 [10687] sings 'Glad Rag Doll' and is photographed in male evening dress on the cover of the sheet music. Good £5
325. MISS VESTA TILLEY [10695] photographic postcard of her in waistcoat and trilby, together with a cigarette card of woman in male evening dress. Good – card posted in 1907 £6
326. MISS ZENA DARE [10693] photographic postcard of her in male attire. Very good – posted in 1906 £5
327. 'MR WINIFRED WARD' [10697] as she signs in ink (real signature) a photograph of herself in evening dress. She was an acclaimed male impersonater in the early 20th century. Fine £7
328. VESTA TILLEY Francis, Day & Hunter 1905 [10670] sings 'Who Said, "Girls"?'. Sheet music featuring photograph on cover of Vesta Tilley in smart male attire. The ditty begins: 'One day on a Western claim/Miners vow'd their lives were tame, For in that lonel spot there seldom girls had been.' Good £7
329. VESTA TILLEY Francis, Day & Hunter 1896 [10672] sings 'He's Going In For this Dancing Now', sheet music, written by E.W. Rogers. Very good – except that the front cover is semi-detached £5
330. VESTA TILLEY Francis, Day & Hunter 1894 [10683] sings 'By the Sad Sea Waves' and is photographed in colour on the cover of the sheet music. Good – though spine strengthened £7
331. BAILLIE, Joanna A Series of Plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, a new edition 1821 [2509] A handsome set – newly rebound in cloth £60
332. BUNBURY, Selina The Blind Girl of the Moor: a shepherd's girl B. Wertheim, Aldine Chambers 1845 [3421] A moral tale – with a Scottish setting. Good – rebound £5
333. BRONTE, Emily Wuthering Heights OUP 2009 [11721] Text edited by Ian Jack, with an introduction and additional notes by Helen Small. In World's Classics series. Soft covers £4
334. Brontes, The Tales of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal: selected writings OUP 2010 [13427] Edited with Introduction and Notes by Christine Alexander. Soft covers – mint £6
335. DALBY, Richard (ed) The Virago Book of Victorian Ghost Stories Virago 1988 [10714] Stories by, among others, Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Catherine Crowe, M.E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Vernon Lee, Violet Hunt and Mary Cholomondeley. Fine in good d/w £8
336. GASKELL, Elizabeth Cranford OUP 2011 [13428] With introduction by Dinah Birch. Soft covers – mint £4
337. HASTINGS, Lady Flora Poems William Blackwood 1841 [5816] The poems of poor Lady Flora were edited for publication by her sister. Lady Flora, a lady in waiting at court in 1838, was suspected of being pregnant, though unmarried. In fact her body was swollen with illness – and she died. Everybody was then v. sorry. Pasted onto the free front endpaper is a black-bordered printed 'Elegy on the Death of Lady Flora Hastings.' Annotation in ink reveals that the copy had in 1882 belonged to Mr John Gladstone, 39 Gunter Grove, Redcliffe Gardens, London S.W.. Latterly the copy had been held in the City of Cardiff Reference Library – perhaps given to it by Mr Gladstone. It bears a 'Withdrawn from Stock' stamp as well as the library albel on the front pastedown. The copy, in its original decorative green cloth, is worn along spine and hinge to front board is tender – contents very good £25
338. INGELOW, Jean Poems George Routledge, no date (c 1900??) [3609] Good – cloth covers faded £3
339. KARLIN, Daniel (ed) The Penguin Book of Victorian Verse Penguin Press 1997 [6516] Fine in d/w – 850pp £12
340. MCLEOD, Irene Rutherford Songs to Save a Soul Chatto and Windus 1916 (7th ed) [13186] A collection of poems. An introductory note states that some had been previously published in, amongst other journals, 'Votes for Women'. Irene McLeod had been a member of the WSPU's Young Purple, White and Green Association and of its Drummers' Union. Very good £20
341. NELSON, Cary (ed) The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry OUP 2012 [13429] Mint in d/w – heavy – 716pp (pub price £95) £50
342. PIKE, G. Holden Daughters of the Flower Market: a story of four London bouquetieres Religious Tract Society, no date (c 1900?) [3612] Bears a 1904 (boys') school prize label. Contains a wealth of social observation – and line-drawings £4
343. PROCTER, Adelaide Anne Legends and Lyrics Bell & Daldy, 14th ed 1872 [1585] Poems by a leading member of the Langham-Place group. very good – leather, with gilt decorations and all edges gilt £15
344. SCOTT, Diana (selects) Bread and Roses: women's poetry in the 19th and 20th centuries Virago 1982 [4302] Paper covers – very good £9
345. SHERWOOD, Mrs The Happy Family Houlston & Sons, new edition no date [3607] A little tract – paper covers. Fine £5
346. SIGOURNEY, Mrs (ed. F.W.N. Bailey) The Poetical Works of Mrs L.H. Sigourney G. Routledge 1857 [2428] Neatly rebound in cloth £10
347. SINCLAIR,Catherine Modern Society; or, the March of the Intellect William Whyte 1837 [10803] Very good in half-leather and marbled boards £20
348. SPARK, Muriel Territorial Rights Macmillan 1979 [8910] Set in Venice. Very good in d/w £12
349. SWAN, Annie S. Aldersyde: a Border story of seventy years ago Oliphant, Anderson, & Ferrier 1885 (r/p) [9697] Good reading copy – cover marked £8
350. SWAN, Annie S. Carlowrie: or, among Lothian folk Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, no date, reprint (1890s?) [9696] Good reading copy £8
351. SWAN, Annie S. The Secret Panel Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier 1896 (r/p [9701] Very good in decorative binding £8
352. SWAN, Annie S. The Strait Gate S.W. Partridge, no date (1890s?) [9706] Good in decorative binding £8
353. TAYLOR, Mary Miss Miles OUP 1990 [12413] Mary Taylor was the life-long friend of Charlotte Bronte. This edition with an introduction by Janet Horowitz Murray. Soft covers – very good £6
354. TRAVERS, Graham [pseud of Margaret Todd] Mona MacLean: medical student William Blackwood, 14th ed 1899 [11784] Novel written by Sophia Jex-Blake's friend and biographer. Cover marked – scarce £38
355.VON ARNIM, Elizabeth The Enchanted April Virago 1986 [13493] Soft covers – fine £5
356. VYNNE, Nora The Pieces of Silver Andrew Melrose 1911 [13337] One of the dedicatees of this novel is Franklin Thomasson, whose family had a long association with the women's suffrage movement. The heroine is a feminist journalist and political campaigner – as was the author, who co-authored, with Helen Blackburn, 'Women Under the Factory Acts 1903' (see item # ). While not being categorically 'suffrage', it is so very close to that genre that I have included it in this section. A scarce book £48
357.WOOD, Mrs Henry Roland Yorke Richard Bentley 1896 [6190] Good reading copy £6
358. YONGE, Charlotte M. A Book of Golden Deeds T. Nelson, no date, reprint [9698] Good reading copy £5
359. TROLLOPE, Anthony Can You Forgive Her? OUP (World's Classics) 2011 [13445] Edited by Dinah Birch. Soft covers – mint £5
360. TROLLOPE, Anthony The Duke's Children OUP (World's Classics) 2011 [13443] Edited with an introduction and notes by Katherine Mullin and Francis O'Gorman. Soft covers – mint £5
361. ANDREWS, Malcolm Dickensian Laughter: essays on Dickens & humour OUP 2013 [13418] Examines and reflects on Dickens' techniques for making us laugh. Mint in d/w (pub price £20) £15
362. FLESHER, Caroline McCracken The Doctor Dissected: a cultural autopsy of the Burke & Hare murders OUP 2012 [13434] Canvasses a wide range of media – from contemporary newspaper accounts and private correspondenc to Japanese comic books and videogames to analyse the afterlife of the Burke and Hare murders and consider its singular place in Scottish history. Mint in d/w (pub price £41.99) £28
363. JAMES, Simon Maps of Utopia: H.G. Wells, modernity, and the end of culture OUP 2012 [13414] Begins with the late-Victorian debate about the effect of reading, especially reading fiction, that followed the 1870 Education Act and considers WEls's best known scientific novels, important social novels, as well as less-known texts.Mint in d/w (pub price £53) £28
364. TOMAN, John Kilvert's World of Wonders; growing up in mid-Victorian England Lutterworth Press 2013 [13419] Presents the diarist Francis Kilvert as a typical mid-Victorian, excited by the scientific and tchnological forces ushering in the modern world. Describes the diarist's upbringing and education to show the origins of his outlook. Soft covers – mint (pub price £25) £18
365. BLACKBURN, Helen (ed) A Handbook for Women engaged in social and political work J.W. Arrowsmith 1895 [3534] Packed with information and names; Helen Blackburn's precise intelligence shines through. Two pull-out diagrams. Very good – and very scarce £80
366. CAMPBELL, Olwen W. The Feminine Point of View Williams & Norgate 1952 [4231] The report of a Conference which began in the winter of 1947 and included among its members Teresa Billington-Greig and Margery Corbett Ashby. Olwen Campbell was the daughter of Mary Ward, who had been the leading light of the Cambridge Association for Women's Suffrage. Very good in d/w £18
367. DOBBIE, B.M. Willmott Dobbie A Nest of Suffragettes in Somerset: Eagle House, Batheaston Batheaston Society 1979 [13585] The story of the Blathwayt family and their involvement in the women's suffrage movement – copiously illustrated by the photographs taken by Col Blathwayt. Soft covers – quite scarce £26
368. KENT, Susan Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 Princeton University Press 1987 [1361] Fine in d/w (which has one slight nick) £20
369. KING, Elspeth The Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement People's Palace, Glasgow 1978 [13272] Soft-covered booklet that was published to accompany the 'Right to Vote' exhibition organised by the People's Palace Museum to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1928 Representation of the People Act. Very good £12
370. MARKINO, Yoshio My Idealed John Bullesses Constable 1913 [7381] A Japanese illustrator – includes a long chapter, with illustrations, about Christabel Pankhurst and the WSPU. Good – with decorative cloth cover. Bears the ownership inscription of the novelist Beatrice Kean – scarce £155
371. MARTIN, Anna Mother and Social Reform NUWSS 1913 [11478] Two articles reprinted from the 'Nineteenth Century and After' issues of May and June 1913 as a booklet. Anna Martin, deeply concerned about the level of infant mortality and general ill-health of poor women and children, argues for easier separation in cases where the husband and father is neglectful or worse, the right of women to a 'maintenance' that is in some way defined. With a membership form for the NUWSS tipped in at the front, and a subscription form to 'The Common Cause' at the back. Paper covers (with a few nicks at edges) – very good condition -64pp £45
372. PANKHURST, Sylvia The Suffragette: the history of the women's militant suffrage movement 1905-1910 The Woman's Journal (Boston) 1911 [4798] This history of the British militant suffrage movement was first published in the USA – this copy bears the pinprick library mark of Louisville Free Public Library – very good – scarce £85
373. PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Frederick The Women's Fight for the Vote The Woman's Press 1910 [13138] One of the classics of the women's suffrage campaign. Very good internally – delightfully decorated cover (purple and gold) slightly rubbed and faded- – very scarce £150
374. RUBINSTEIN, David Before the Suffragettes: women's emancipation in the 1890s Harvester 1986 [13158] Soft covers – very good £15
375. SEAWELL, Molly Elliot The Ladies' Battle Macmillan Co (NY) 1911 [11143] She was an American novelist who here argues against women's suffrage, maintaining that if women were to vote an unlooked-for 'general revolution' would be inaugurated. Good – uncommon £38
376. STOPES, Charlotte Carmichael British Freewomen: their historical privilege Swan Sonnenschein, 3rd ed 1907 [13137] An important volume in the historiography of the women's suffrage movement. Mrs Stopes made use of material collected by Helen Blackburn. Good. £65
377. STRACHEY, Ray The Cause: a short history of the women's movement in Great Britain G. Bell 1928 [12059] This copy belonged to Lord McGregor – author of 'Divorce in England', a book that includes a very useful bibliography of works on women's rights. He has laid in the book a collection of newspaper cuttings, from the 1950s to 1970s, relating to the position of women. The copy of the book is in good condition – but he had bought it as an ex-library copy and has added a few pencilled notes on the back pastedown. An interesting association copy. £55
378. (FAWCETT) David Rubinstein A Different World for Women: the life of Millicent Garrett Fawcett Ohio State University Press 1991 [12100] Mint in d/w £15
379. (LYTTON) Lady Betty Balfour (ed) Letters of Constance Lytton William Heinemann 1925 [10628] Very good – in purple cloth, with design by Syvlia Pankhurst on front cover £68
380. (PANKHURST) Emmeline Pankhurst My Own Story Eveleigh Nash 1914 [13265] Mrs Pankhurst's authobiography, written with the help of the American journalist, Rheda Childe Dorr. Good – scarce £55
381. ARMOUR, Margaret Agnes of Edinburgh Andrew Melrose 1911 [3719] A novel of its time – the suffrage movement although not central to the plot – flows along behind, occasionally breaking the surface in a discussion of women's rights and attitudes to the campaign. Interesting – very scarce – I've only seen it previously in the Briitish Library. Very good in rubbed paper wrapper – with a little card inlaid – showing that it had been presented to Nesta Prichard, of Form Vb, as a prize for mathematics. £40
382. HINE, Muriel The Man With the Double Heart John Lane 1914 [13336] The heroine's mother is a Militant Suffragette; she is not. Good £18
383. JOHNSTON, Sir Harry Mrs Warren's daughter: a story of the women's movement Chatto & Windus 1920 [1342] A suffrage novel. Very good – presentation copy from the author's wife £35
384. PAGE, Gertrude The Winding Paths Hurst & Blackett c 1911 [8th ed] [12888] A novel with a suffrage theme. 'The men call them "new Women" with derision, or mannish, or unsexed; but those who have been among them, and known them as friends, know that they hold in their ranks some of th most generous-hearted, unselfish, big-souled women who exist in England to-day…One such as the best of these was Ethel Hayward..' Good £20
385. ROBERTS, Katherine Pages From the Diary of a Militant Suffragette Garden City Press 1910 [11202] There has been some doubt about whether this is an autobiography or fiction. I tend to think that it is fiction – clearly written by an active suffragette – but am not further forward about who Katherine Roberts was. Extremely interesting – and vivid. Paper covers – a little chipped – but a very good copy – clean and tight – of a very scarce book £250
386. SAUTER, Lilian Through High Windows Curtis & Davison (11a Church St, Kensington) 1911 [12880] Poems. Includes 'Woman's Plea for Suffrage' and 'Woman's Song of Freedom.'. The latter was set to music by Annette Hullah and published by the London Society for Women's Suffrage £25
387. SHAW, Bernard Press Cuttings: a topical sketch compiled from the editorial and correspondence columns of the Daily Papers Constable & Co no date (1909) [13000] as performed by the Civic and Dramatic Guild at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on the 9th July 1909. A suffragette play. In grey card covers a little chipped at edge £35
388. A Brief Review of the Women's Suffrage Movement since its Beginning in 1832 [NUWSS], printed by Vacher & Sons April 1911 [13505] 16-pp pamphlet. Very good – would be fine but it has lost its staples. With the ownership inscription of a 'Mrs Kerr' on the cover. £35
389. ADA HINES [12587] (1872-1949) of 'The Nook', Ashton-on-Mersey, was an artist and a suffragette – the joint founder, in 1909, with her friend and fellow artist, Lucy Fildes, of the Manchester branch of the Women's Freedom League. Here is an opportunity to acquire a small oil painting by her – unframed – on board – entitled 'Sunset'. Signed but undated – rather atmospheric. £75
390. ANTI-SUFFRAGE CAMPAIGN [13053] Typed letter, dated 18 July 1910, from George Calderon, Acting Secretary to the Campaign Committee, on note paper headed 'Anti-Suffrage Campaign' and giving the names of committee members and the office address (Palace Chambers, Bridge Street, Westminster, S.W.) The letter thanks an MP for the 'really splendid speech' he gave 'on Saturday'. Very good £25
391. BODICHON, Mrs Reasons for the Enfranchisement of Women London National Society for Women's Suffrage, no date late 1860s? [9519] Printed by Head, Hole & Co, Farringdon Street and Ivy Lane, E.C. Scarce and important pamphlet -8pp – good £250
392. CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST WOMEN'S FRANCHISE ASSOCIATION A Reply to the Anti-Suffragists CUWFA [13191] 4-pp leaflet written by Annesley Horsfall. Pages detached – edges very nicked – but text untouched. Withdrawn from the Women's Library £12
393. CORONATION PROCESSION 17 June 1911 [11274] A stereoscope photograph of 'The Empire Car' – part of the 'Pageant of Empire' part of the procession staged by the suffrage societies to mark the Coronation of George V. Very good £95
394. ELMY, Elizabeth Wostenholme Woman's Franchise: the need of the hour ILP 2nd ed, no date [1907] [12760] A campaigner for women's suffrage since the mid-1860s, she had put aside a lifetime's aversion to party politics and joined the Manchester ILP in 1904. This article was originally published in the 'Westminster Review'. In her concise style she analyses the events of the previous 40 years and demands that Liberal MPs who profess to support women's suffrage honour their pledges. £65
395. FAWCETT, Mrs Henry Home and Politics an address delivered at Toynbee Hall and elsewhere Women's Printing Society 1894 [12939] A much reproduced speech – first given c 1890. This printing does not bear a date but probably c 1900. It carries the ownership stamp of Margaret Clark, Street, Somerset who in 1909 married Arthur Gillett – so probably predates 1909. 8pp – a little creased and marked – but tight £35
396. HILL, MISS OCTAVIA Women and the Suffrage 1910 [13150] 2-sided leaflet, reproducing a letter from Octavia Hill to the Editor of the 'Times', dated 14 July 1910. In this she repudiates the necessity of votes for women – 'Let the woman seek the quiet paths of helpful real work, be set on finding where she is wanted, on her duties, not on her rights…' The 2-sided leaflet was printed by the National Press Agency Ltd and does not carry the imprimatur of the anti-suffrage society, although I imagine that group was probably behind its publication, the NPA being their usual printer. Good – very scarce £68
397. IN MEMORIAM Rt Hon Lord and Lady (Emmeline) Pethick-Lawrence of Peaslake [13195] 4-pp leaflet describing the various commemorations of the lives of the Pethick-Lawrences. Issued by the Suffragette Fellowship under the names of Lady (Helen) Pethick-Lawrence and Grace Roe. Good £15
398. LEIGH SMITH, Barbara A Brief Summary in Plain Language of the Most Important Laws Concerning Women; together with a few observations thereon Holyoake & Co, 2nd edition revised with addition 1856 [9033] Barbara Leigh Smith (later Barbara Bodichon) was 27 years old when she wrote this pamphlet, first published in 1854 as part of her campaign to change the Married Women's Property Acts. This pamphlet is extremely scarce (I have never had a copy for sale before), bound inside recent paper covers. Rather amusingly, the printed price of 'Threepence' has been scored through and '1 1/2 d' added – a comment, presumably, then on the interest being shown in the campaign by a public not yet awakened to the cause. Very good £280
399. LYDIA BECKER [12607] Letter from Lydia Becker to 'Mr Levi' – written from 85 Carter St, Greenyes, Manchester on 'Oct 16' – I have worked out that the year is1868. 'Mr Levi' is probably Prof Leone Levi, to whom she had sent a pamphlet a few days earlier. I think, in response, he had written to her in admiration asking for some material from her for his autograph book. In this letter, in return, she writes 'I have written out my three Norwich prospositions ,[these are drawn from her address at Norwich to the British Association Section F on 25 Aug 1868] which I hope may serve your purpose as a curiosity! for your autograph book, and a bone of contention for your friends.' These 'three Norwich propositions' are set out on a separate sheet. But, in addition, in her 4-pp mss letter she sets out 'my general wishes and conclusions as to the rights of women'.. All the material has been carefully attached to a sheet that once was page 77 in a collection of autograph material. Incidentally the material on the reverse, p 78, is in Italian, lending credence to my supposition that the correspondent was Leone Levi, who had left his native Italy for Liverpool in 1844. A very interesting letter – very good £95
400. MCCABE, Joseph Woman in Political Evolution Watts & Co 1909 [9803] An overview -from ' Woman Before Civilisation' to 'The Moral Base of Enfranchisement.'Paper wrappers – one nick at spine eats into the margin of a few pages -and a tiny bit of text is lost on two pages, but does not interfere with reading. £28
401. MCLAREN, Lady 'Better and Happier': An Answer from the Ladies' Gallery to the Speeches in Opposition to the Women's Suffrage Bill, February 28th, 1908 T. Fisher Unwin 1908 [13102] I have always been rather an admirer of Laura McLaren and her straight-forward prose. 46-pp – paper covers present but detached – text otherwise good and tight – scarce £75
402. (MARSH) Suffragette Fellowship Memories of Charlotte Marsh published for the Suffragette Fellowship by Marion Lawson June 1961 [12979] Paper covers – tribute to a leading WSPU activist – 20-pp pamphlet -card covers reproduces her hunger strike medal. Good -carries library marks – withdrawn from the Women's Library. Scarce £30
403. MEN'S LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Gladstone on Woman Suffrage MLOWS c. 1909 [13146] The Men's League for Opposing Woman Suffrage was founded in early 1909 and in 1910 merged with the Women's National Anti-Suffrage League to form the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. This pamphlet – reproducing the Grand Old Man's words on the subject is pamphlet no 3 issued by the Men's League, presumably quite soon after its founding in 1909. 4-pp – good, with some foxing, scarce £78
404. MEN'S LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Is Woman Suffrage A Logical Outcome of Democracy? MLOWS c 1909 [13147] Pamphlet no 6 published by the short-lived Men's League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 4-pp – very good – scarce £60
405. MISS MORGAN, OF BRECON The Duties of Citizenship Women's Local Government Society c 1912 [12946] Extracts reprinted from a paper read at the Annual Conference of the National Union of Women Workers, Manchester, October 27th 1896. By the time this leafet was issued Miss Morgan had been Mayor of Brecon, 1911-12. 4-pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £15
406. NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE The 'Conciliation' Bill: Revised Version NLOWS no date (1911) [13152] The 2-sided leaflet, no 33 in the series, is headed 'Against Votes for Women' and ends with 'Vote and Work Against Votes For Women In Parliamentary Affairs'. Very good – very scarce £75
407. NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Manifesto: No Votes for Women [13512] "Why the nation is opposed to the grant of the Parliamentary Vote to Women'. Among the reasons for opposing Votes for Women is '(f) Because any proposal to give votes to women would result in swamping the male voter and making women the real rulers of the Empire.' Leaflet 52 in the NLOWS series. 4pp – fine – scarce £75
408. NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Mr J.R. Tolmie's Reply to Mr L. Housman's Pamphlet NLOWS no date (1913) [13145] The pamphlet of Laurence Housman's to which this refers is 'The Physical Force Fallacy'. Pamphlet no 37 issued by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 4-pp – very good £65
409. NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR OPPOSING WOMAN SUFFRAGE Woman Suffrage and the Factory Acts NLOWS no date [13155] A 4-pp leaflet, no 8 in the NLOWS series, pointing out that the 'Women's Party' (ie pro-suffrage campaigners) were opposed to the 'humane acts' limiting women's work in factory etc because 'most of them harbour such a jealous mistrust of men that they suppose even their evidently disinterested actions to be prompted by insidious and harmful motive.' The leaflet concludes 'To grant women the franchise would therefore be to raise a fresh obstacle in the way of progress and to defer reforms still necessary for the welfare of the working classes..' Very good – very scarce £75
410. NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CENTRAL COMMITTEE: First Report of the Executive Committee presented at the General Meeting of the Central Committee held on Wednesday 17 July 1872 National Society for Women's Suffrage 1872 [12931] See my 'Women's Suffrage Movement: a reference guide' as to how and why the Central Committee came into being. This – the Committee's first report, contains lists of names of members of the Committee, of subscribers, and of the Local Committtes around England and Scotland that affiliated to the Central. In original paper covers – rubbed – very scarce £95
411. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES [3986] with the Men's League (Portsmouth branches) – Programme for an evening meeting that began with a musical recital, followed by the singing of suffrage songs (the words are printed – one of them is by Margaret O'Shea, sister of the secretary of the Portsmouth NUWSS society and then a speech by Lady Balfour followed by more singing and then a closing speech by Alice Abadam. Interestingly the Vote of Thanks is seconded by Alderman Sanders, LCC, who in 1908 was Labour parliamentary candidate for Portsmouth and whose wife, Beatrice, was financial secretary to the WSPU. I think this programme may date from 1908 – because there is a mention at its foot of an Exhibition of Banners (Fuller's tea Rooms, Palmerston Road) – and such exhibitions were common after the June 1908 Hyde Park rally. 1 sheet -good £180
412. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES Final Report of the Professional Women's Patriotic Service Fund NUWSS Oct 1915 [12943] 'The Fund began work in Jan 1915, when a Committee was formed for the purpose of assisting professional women, by paying their salaries and offering their services to organisations which are dealing with war needs.' I knew nothing of this short-lived Fund before reading this Report. It lists, on the one had, donors and, on the other, the positions in which they had placed needy 'professional' women. The Fund was wound up when it became clear that its services were no longer required. The Committee included, among others, Mrs Auerbach, Mrs Fawcett, Catherine Marshall, Ray Strachey, Dr Jane Walker – and its secretary was Kathleen Courtney. 12pp – good – scarce £50
413. PANKHURST, Christabel A Challenge [13508] 'Miss Pankhurst's unpublished Article in this week's 'Votes for Women', 8 March 1912. This was the week that Christabel eluded the police and escaped to Paris – and 'Votes for Women' was censored. The article that was to have been included was, instead, issued by the WSPU as a leaflet. It ends by promising 'Repression will make the fire of rebellion burn brighter. Harsher punishment will be a direct invitation to more drastic acts of militancy.' I don't remember ever seeing this leaflet before. one-sided – chipped at one edge and with a slight slit – but with no loss of text. Good – and very scarce £75
414. PANKHURST, Christabel International Militancy WSPU 1915 [13502] 'A speech delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York, January 13th, 1915'. 24-pp pamphlet, paper covers (with photograph of Christabel Pankhurst). Fine – just with a couple of rust marks from spine staples – in original paper wrappers. Scarce £100
415. PANKHURST, EMMELINE ET AL Suffrage Speeches From the Dock: Conspiracy Trial, Old Bailey, May 15th-22nd 1912 The Woman's Press, no date (1912) [12965] The speeches given during their trial for conspiracy by Mrs Pankhurst, Mrs Pethick-Lawrence, Mr Pethick Lawrence and Tim Healy (counsel for the defence). They were reprinted and published by the WSPU's publishing arm, the Woman's Press. Fair – first 4 pages present but detached – spine reinforced with sellotape – paper covers chipped and carry library shelf marks – withdrawn from the Women's Library- extremely scarce £55
416. PETHICK-LAWRENCE, Emmeline and Frederick (eds) VOTES FOR WOMEN VOL III Oct 1909-Sept 1910 [12407] Hefty bound volume of the WSPU weekly newspaper, in original Sylvia Pankhurst-designed boards. Signs of wear at leather corners – spines rebacked – ex Reading University Library – with library label on back boards. Internally very clean and tight, except for page of the Index where paper has split, but with no loss of text.. £900
417. PHILLIPS, Mary The Militant Suffrage Campaign privately printed 1957 [11357] 'This pamphlet is designed to tell in a concise form the story of the 'Votes for Women Canpaign' and to explain the reasoned policy on which it was based.' Mary Phillips had been a leading WSPU organizer. Soft covers – 15pp – scarce £65
418. PHOTOGRAPH OF GROUP OF SUFFRAGETTES IN PRISON UNIFORM [13623] The photograph has attached to it on the reverse a typed slip identifying the women as suffragettes 'lined up for transport to Holloway Prison in London' and refers to this happening 'before the War'. The photo agency is Acme News which operated from the early 1920s to 1952 and I think this image is a 'reprint' issued in the inter-war years. It is difficult to date the original – which is I would imagine of women who, if they are awaiting transport to Holloway, have actually already been on remand, because otherwise they would not have been in prison uniform. I think it must be of a group of women arrested after one of the WSPU demonstrations between Oct 1906 and early 1912 and I would tend towards the early part of this period.The voluminous prison garb doesn't give much away in the clues to the date. They are all wearing large discs giving their block and cell number in Holloway's DX wing. It is a very good, clear image – they all look very much like real people. 25cm x 20 cm – very good £65
419. POTT, Gladys Report of Lecture by Miss Pott on the Anti-Suffrage Movement [13511] 'Delivered at 67 Westbourne Terrace, W. on Tuesday December 12th 1911. Sir Bartle Frere presiding'. Gladys Pott was the Anti-Suffrage Movement strongest ammunition. In 'Campaigning for the Vote' Kate Frye gives a wonderful description of watching Miss Pott in action – ' a most harsh, repellent and unpleasing woman. She began by saying we should not get sentiment from her and we did not. ,,' Certainly you get the flavour of her style from this Lecture – particularly in the treatment of questioners – all faithfully reported. The Lecture was published by the National League for Opposing Woman Suffrage. 16pp – very good – I am not sure whether it was issued with a paper wrapper but, if so, that isn't present now. COPAC records a copy held by LSE Library – and nowhere else. Scarce £95
420. PUNCH CARTOON [12767] 13 July 1910, full-page – the caption is 'Excelsior!' as Suffragist puts her shoulder to the boulder of 'Women's Suffrage' and says, 'It's no good talking to me about Sisyphus; he was only a man' £10
421. PUNCH CARTOON [12768] 13 March 1912, full-page, suffragettes wield hammers in the background as Roman-type matron, bearing a paper labelled 'Woman's Suffrage' comments 'To think that, after all these years, I should be the first martyr'. the heading is 'In the House of Her Friends' £10
422. PUNCH CARTOON [12772] 10 January 1912 -full page – 'United We Differ'. Lloyd George and Lewis Harcourt are back to back on a platform. Lloyd George addressing his side, where a Votes for Women' banner is to be seen, cries 'Votes for Women! Don't you listen to my esteemed colleague!'. While addressing his, male, crowd cries 'No Votes for Women! My esteemed colleague is talking nonsense!'. Asquith's cabinet was split on this issue. Very good £10
423. PUNCH CARTOON [12777] 21 January 1912 – full page – 'The Suffrage Split'. Sir George Askwith (the charismatic industrial conciliator), as 'Fairy Peacemaker', has tamed the dragon of the Cotton Strike – and Asquith, wrestling to keep a seat on the Cabinet horse turns to him 'Now that you've charmed yon dragon I shall need ye to stop the strike inside this fractious gee-gee.' £10
424. SNOWDEN, Philip The Dominant Issue Feb 1913 [12945] A comment on the 'Franchise Bill fiasco' – that is, Asquith's promise that a Manhood Suffrage Bill would be amended to include women – and the Speaker's eventual ruling that such an amendment would destroy the Bill. Pamphlet reproducing an article first published in 'The Christian Commonwealth'. Good – a little foxed and grubby £25
425. STRACHEY, Ray The Women's Movement in Great Britain: a short summary of its rise, methods and victories National Council of Women of Great Britain no date (c 1928) [13109] A pamphlet abridged from Strachey's 'The Cause'. Chipped and rubbed – withdrawn from the Women's Library £10
426. SUFFRAGETTE FELLOWSHIP Roll of Honour Suffragette Prisoners 1905-1914 Suffragette Fellowship no date [1966] [13107] 16-pp, double column, listing all the suffragette prisoners that the Suffragette Fellowship knew of. A couple of names have been added in ink. Internally fine – cover has shelf markings etc – withdrawn from the Women's Library. Scarce £150
427. THE ENGLISH REVIEW, JUNE 1913 [5463] Includes an article, 'The Truth About White Slavery' by Teresa Billington-Greig in which, with (as always) clear-minded logic, she suggests that a climate of hysteria had been whipped up (not least by the writings of members of the WSPU) – and that 'the Mothers of the new Church are threatening the future by the whitewashing of women and the doctrine of the uncleanness of men'. Good – scarce £24
428. THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION Sixth Annual Report The Woman's Press 1912 [13506] 'Including Cash Statement and Subscription List for the Year ended February 29th 1912, and Accounts of The Woman's Press, January 1st-December 31st 1911.' The Subscription List is a gold mine of names of WSPU members at this important time in the WSPU's life. Laid in is a – very scarce & revealing – copy typed letter from Mabel Tuke (Honorary Secretary)- presumably sent to every subscriber – dated 22 June 1912 – with the Annual Report. Besides touching on the sale of 'Votes for Women' (circulation increasing, but, as everr, more help needed), and commenting on the Government's proposed Reform Bill, the letter reveals that 'it is now found necessary and expedient to transfer the Headquarters Officces to other premises…Great inconvenience has always been suffered from the scattered position of the various departments at 4 Clement's Inn…Negotiations for a suitable building are in progress…' I think Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence was released from prison (sentenced with her husband and Mrs Pankhurst on grounds of criminal conspiracy) on 22 June 1912 – so it looks as though plans were already underway while she and her husband were still in prison to move the WSPU out of their territory of Clement's Inn – a precursor for their ousting from the WSPU in October. Very good; the staples are missing – extremely scarce £280
429. 'THE VOTE' POSTCARD ALBUM [13274] An original green cloth-covered postcard album – sold by the Women's Freedom League. It has a faded white and gold central panel containing its title 'The Vote Album' [ I think the design was by Eva Claire – showing the Suffragists at the door of the State, which is barred and bolted against them. Seeking entrance are the Women of the Nation; graduates in academic dress standing side by side with working women.] This particular album once belonged to Mrs Louisa Thomson Price, who was born Louisa Catherine Sowdon in 1864 and died in 1926. She was the daughter of a Tory military family but from an early age rebelled against their way of thinking and became a secularist and a Radical. She was impressed by Charles Bradlaugh of the National Secular Society. In 1888 she married John Sansom, who was a member of the executive of the NSS. She worked as a journalist from c 1886 – as a political writer, then a very unusual area for women, and drew cartoons for a radical journal, 'Political World'. She was a member of the Council of the Society of Women Journalists. After the death of her first husband, in 1907 she married George Thomson Price. She had no children from either marriage.
Louisa Thomson Price was an early member of the Women's Freedom League, became a consultant editor of its paper, The Vote, and was a director of Minerva Publishing, publisher of the paper. She contributed a series of cartoons – including these 6 that were then produced as postcards. The 'Jack Horner' cartoon was also issued as a poster for, I think, the January 1910 General Election. Louisa Thomson Price took part in the WFL picket of the House of Commons and was very much in favour of this type of militancy. In her will she left £250 to the WFL. and £1000 to endow a Louisa Thomson Price bed at the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital. When she died Mrs Thomson Price was living at 17 Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead, and her will was witnessed by Edith Alexander, a professional nurse, who, I'm sure, ran a nursing home at that address. Also living at that address were Miss Edith Alexandra Hartley and Miss Martha Poles Hartley, the latter being the elder sister of the father of the novelist, L.P. Hartley. Interestingly, when they were young, the son and daughter (Olga and Leonard – born 'Lion') of Mrs Beatrice Hartley, leading light in the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage, to whom Kate Frye makes constant reference in her diary (see 'Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye's Suffrage Diary') sent a birthday card to Edith Alexander at 17 Belsize Park Gardens, referring to her as 'Aunty Edith'. They were no blood relations to Edith Alexander, their mother having married their father, Lion Herz, in 1880 and, after 3 children and a separation, at some time between 1893 and 1898 changed the family surname from 'Herz' to 'Hartley'.. As far as I can tell there is no tie of blood between Mrs Beatrice Hartley and Miss Edith Alexandra Hartley – I can only presume that, with Miss Edith Alexander, they were all close friends. The card from Olga and Leonard, together with many more addressed to Edith Alexander, are still held in the postcard album. I assume that after Mrs Thomson Price's death 'The Vote Postcard Album' remained in 17 Belsize Park Gardens and was taken over by Miss Alexander as a place to put her own postcards – none of which have any suffrage relevance. But the Album itself is an extremely scarce example of Women's Freedom League merchandise £750
430. THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION What Shall We Do With The Militant Suffragettes? [13509] 'The Vicar of St James's and Militancy' An article by Edwin A. Mould, Vicar of St James's, Piccadilly – published by the Women's Social and Political Union as a 2-sided, large, leaflet – c 1913. I don't remember ever seeing this before. Good – scarce £55
431. VOTES FOR WOMEN, 16 August 1912 [13190] Complete copy – although the pages are detached. The main news in this issue is of the sentencing in Dublin of Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans. Fair reading copy – scarce £60
432. VOTES FOR WOMEN, 26 July 1912 [13188] An incomplete copy – pp 693-698 (inc) and 703-708 (inc) – but gives a flavour £30
433. VOTES FOR WOMEN, 26 July 1912 [13495] runs from front page (p 693) to p 698 and then from p 703-708 (back page) – i.e. pp 699, 700, 701 and 702 are missing. Much about the attack on Asquith and the Theatre Royal, Dublin, by Mary Leigh and Gladys Evans and that by Helen Craggs on Lewis Harcourt's house. Fair condition £30
434. VOTES FOR WOMEN, 27 September 1912 [13176] At this date the paper, owned and edited by Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence, was still the mouthpiece of the WSPU. However this issue contains both news of the Pethick-Lawrences' imminent return from Canada and that of the WSPU's move from Clement's Inn to Lincoln's Inn House. The two items – and that describing the large meeting to be held in the Albert Hall – were not unconnected, I think. This is one of the last issues of the paper before the Pethick-Lawrences were ousted from the WSPU. In fair condition – splits on spine – and some annotation, probably contemporary. Scarce £95
435. VOTES FOR WOMEN, 27 September 1912 [13496] Complete issue. Chipped and rubbed and with some – interesting – annotations £60
436. VOTES FOR WOMEN ADVERTISEMENT [13262] for a WSPU meeting to be held at the Royal Albert Hall on 29 April 1909 – to be chaired by Mrs Pethick Lawrence, with Mrs Pankhurst and Christabel Pankhurst as speakers with a 'Special Presentation to Women who have suffered Imprisonment for Woman Suffrage'. This 'Special Presentation' was that of the 'Holloway' brooches given, for the first time, to released prisoners. The advertisement appears in the programme for the Royal Adelphi Theatre in which John Galsworthy's play 'Strife' was running. The play, produced by Granville Barker, had Lillah McCarthy in the cast and had had its first performance at the Duke of York's Theatre on 9 March 1909. On the illustrated cover of this 4-pp programme is written in hand the date 1 April 1909. The proprietors of the Adelphi were A. & E. Gatti – and the coloured cover illustration shows happy customers doubtless enjoying an after-theatre supper at their restaurant.. In fair condition – £25
437. 'VOTES FOR WOMEN' AT THE 'COURT' [13327] A page from the 'Bystander' 24 April 1907 – with illustrations by Norman Morrow of characters and scenes from Elizabeth Robins' play 'Votes for Women', which was staged to some acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre in April 1907. Kate Frye had seen the play on 16 April and writes of it in her diary (see http://tinyurl.com/mbj4jsh). She had in fact worked alongside the play's star, Edith Wynne Matthison, five years or so earlier during her short stage career. The drawings show all the main characters as well as a rendition of the famous Trafalgar Square meeting scene. Very good £28
438. WOMEN'S NATIONAL ANTI-SUFFRAGE LEAGUE On Suffragettes: extracts from 'What's Wrong With The World' by G.K. Chesterton WNASL c 1909 [13151] 'They do not create revolution; what they do create is anarchy'. 2-sided leaflet – noo 30 in the WNASL's series of leaflets – very good – very scarce £78
439. WOMEN'S NATIONAL ANTI-SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Woman's Suffrage and Women's Wages WNASL c 1909 [13156] 'The leaflet concludes Woman Suffrage therefore has nothing to do with wages, and the interests of woman workers can be promoted, and are constantly being promoted in quite other ways.' One of the ways that the League thought would help solve the problem of the inequality of wages between the sexes would be 'The more even distribution of the female population throughout the terrotory of the Empire, by means of emigration'. Two-sided leaflet – very good – very scarce £65
440. INDUSTRIAL AND PROFESSIONAL WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETY with THE NEW CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE Flyer for a meeting held at the Memorial hall, Farringdon Street, London, on 11 November 1910 [13389] The meeting was a joint one promoted by the two societies. Together with a cyclostyled 'Instructions to Stewards'. Kate Frye was a steward on that occasion. Both items very good, with tags to the reverse of each where Kate fixed them into her diary. Together £150
441. MEN'S LEAGUE FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE The Conciliation Bill Explained [13401] Two-sided leaflet, dating from mid 1910. The text, while explaining the Conciliation Bill, which had passed its Second Reading in July 1910, also clearly sought to allay the fears of male electors as to the consequences if the Bill were to be passed. Very good – has been folded – and with tag on reverse where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary £100
442. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES Bye-election Policies Compared Oct 1908 [12525] Double-sided, two-columned leaflet in which the NUWSS compares the different elements of its bye-election policy with that of the WSPU. The NUWSS had incorporated material supplied by Christabel Pankhurst into the WSPU statements. Fine – a little tag remaining on the second side – not affecting text – where it has been pasted into album – very scarce £55
443. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES Leading Facts of the Movement for the Parliamentary Enfranchisement of Women c 1907 [12526] 4-pp leaflet setting out the principal dates and achievements in the advance towards enfranchisement. Good – a little creased £55
444. NATIONAL UNION OF WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE SOCIETIES The Repression of a Disenfranchised Sex – by Cicely Hamilton [13400] 4-sided leaflet, reprinted, Sept 1908, from the 'Sunday Times' of 15 March 1908. Good – with tag on reverse where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary – scarce £100
445. NEW CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE The Conciliation Bill Explained [13402] Two-sided leaflet. The text is very much the same as that of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage leaflet 'The Conciliation Bill Explained' – but suitably adapted and definitely issued in 1911. The leaflet is printed by the St Clements Press, the printer to the WSPU. Very good – has been folded – and with tag where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary £100
446. THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION Electors of Great Britain! [13391] 4-pp election address produced by the WSPU at the Dec 1910 General Election. On the front is 'A Patriot"s well-known cartoon of 'The Right Dishonourable Double-Face Asquith' – and the gist of the campaign is 'Every vote given AGAINST the Government is a vote given for human liberty and justice to women. Vote for the Women, and Keep the Liberal Out.' Fine – has been folded and with a small tag where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary. Very scarce £200
447. THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION A Letter To A Liberal Woman [13398] Two-sided, large format leaflet (No 62) under the signature of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence. Issued at the time of the Jan 1910 General Election and urging Liberal women not to give any help to the Liberals in the campaign. Fine – has been folded and with tag on reverse where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary £100
448.THE WOMEN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL UNION A Reply to Mr Gladstone: Frog-marching in Liverpool Prison [13396] One (no 65) of the large format leaflets produced by the WSPU during the Jan 1910 General Election. This one specifically addresses the Home Secretary on the treatment of Suffrage prisoners. Fine – has been folded and with tag where it has been fixed in Kate Frye's diary £100
449. WOMEN'S TAX RESISTANCE LEAGUE No Vote. No Tax [13394] 4-pp leaflet (c Nov 1910) written by Mrs Ethel Ayres Purdie (see my website for post on Mrs Ayres Purdie, Kingsway and (Alas) Covent Garden Tube Station). In this leaflet she sets out the tax position vis à vis women, noting that 'plans are now in process of evolution, for making the sale by auction of resisters' goods as difficult as possible', and remarking that, having been advised to reclaim any tax that ought to be refunded by the Revenue, many women are passing on such monies to the WTRL. Very good – unusual – with small tag on reverse where Kate Frye fixed it into her diary. £120
450. WOMEN'S TEXTILE AND OTHER WORKERS' REPRESENTATION COMMITTEE The Labour Party & Women's Enfranchisement: a Personal Statement by J. Keir Hardie MP [13395] 4-pp leaflet, reprinted from the 'Labour Leader', 1 Feb 1907. Very good – has been folded and with tag on back page where iKate Frye fixed it in her diary alongside the entry for 9 Feb 1907. £100
451. ROBERTSON, Margaret Working Men and Women's Suffrage NUWSS Aug 1913 [12937] Margaret Robertson was a university graduate and NUWSS organiser. This pamphlet was written at a time when the NUWSS had set up its Election Fighting Fund to support Labour Party candidates – and was intended for distribution amongst trade unionists. Small format, 24pp in card covers £35
Real photographic
452. ARREST OF CAPT. C.M. GONNE [12914] Member of the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement, Parliament Square, November 18th, 1910.' Capt Gonne was photographed by the 'Daily Mirror' being escorted by two policemen during the 'Black Friday' tumult. Capt Charles Melvill Gonne (1862-1926), Royal Artillery, was the author of 'Hints on Horses' (John Murray, 1904), an active suffragist, who supported his wife, a tax resister, and was a cousin of Maud Gonne, the Irish nationalist heroine. Very good -unusual – unposted £120
453. CHRISTABEL PANKHURST [13616] photographed by Lambert Weston and Son, 27 New Bond St. I think the card dates from c 1907/8. Fine – unposted £75
454.CICELY HAMILTON [12954] photograph by Lena Connell. Fine – unposted £120
455. CORONATION PROCESSION 17 JUNE 1911 [13618] Photograph taken from above near Hyde Park Corner. The image is exceptionally crisp. Fine – unposted £95
456. COUNTESS RUSSELL [13241] real photographic postcard – headed 'Votes for Women' of 'Countess Russell Member of National Executive Committee Women's Freedom League'. The card depicts Countess Russell photographed in a studio setting – and is signed in ink 'Yours sincerely Mollie Russell'. She was the second wife of Frank Russell, 2nd Earl Russell, the elder brother of Bertrand. Mollie was described by George Santyana as 'a fat, florid Irishwoman, with black curls, friendly manners and emotional opinions: a political agitator and reformer.' The photograph in no way belies the physical description. She and Russell were divorced in 1915. Fine – unposted – scarce – I have never seen this card before £120
457. DESTRUCTION OF GRAND STAND BY SUFFRAGETTES AT HURST PARK SUNDAY JUNE 18 1913 [13542] Real photographic postcard by Young's, Teddington. The scene left by Kitty Marion and Clara (Betty) Giveen after they had lit a beacon for Emily Davison – who had died, unbeknownst to them, a few hours earlier. (See full details https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/06/07/suffrage-stories-kitty-marion-emily-wilding-davison-and-hurst-park/). Fine – the message on the reverse is dated 5 July – the card was posted at Molesey Park – so the sender was clearly a local resident who, in fact, mentions that she (I'm sure it is a 'she') had 'just returned from Kingston'. Very scarce £180
458. DR THEKLA HULTIN [13168] The Finnish MP is photographed at her desk. She sent the card from Helsingfors (Helsinki) on 12 April 1917 to Mrs Louisa Thompson-Price of the Women's Freedom League. From the message on the reverse it would appear that the two women shared a birthday 'I wish you all the best (including the vote) in the following 50 years…' Very good – posted – very unusual £120
459. EDITH CRAIG [12955] photographed by Lena Connell, published at The Suffrage Shop, 31 Bedford Street (therefore the card dates from c 1910 – before its removal in 1911 south of the Strand). Fine – unposted £120
460. FORTISSIMO [12875] – real photograph, – toddler holds the songsheet for 'Bother the Men', dating from the 1880s. Published by Rotary Photo, this is one in a series. Posted by Dick on 21 December 1908 to Master Harry Day of 9 Arthur St, Pembroke Dock, with the message 'Harry boy – learning Dada's Xmas Song.' Good £28
461. GREAT VOTES FOR WOMEN DEMONSTRATION IN HYDE PARK [13163] The WSPU rally on Sunday 21 June 1908. Crowds as far as the eye can see – with massed banners, including those of Cardiff and Newport, waving in the breeze. Fine – published by Sandle Bros – unposted £85
462. HATHERLEIGH CARNIVAL [13558] Hatherleigh in Devon has staged a carnival each year in November since 1903. This postcard is a sepia photograph of three children – I rather think they are all boys – dressed as women – glamorously bedecked in flowers – standing beside a vehicle that I think is a bicycle – which is similarly decorated – with flowers and paper lanterns
(?) – and bears a large notice 'Votes for Women'. Good – unposted £55
463. LONDON LIFE. 'VOTES FOR WOMEN' [13621] A real photograph of a woman selling issue no 2 of 'The Suffragette' (the paper, edited by Christabel Pankhurst, that succeeded 'Votes for Women' in Oct 1912, after the removal of the Pethick-Lawrences from the leadership of the WSPU). She is not young, is elegantly dressed, and is wearing her 'Holloway' brooch, indicating that she has been imprisoned for the Cause. Rotary Photographic Series 'London Life' – fine – a very clear image -unposted £80
464. MISS GRACE ROE [12958] The caption is 'UNDAUNTED'!' She is being marched out of the WSPU headquarters, Lincolns Inn House, by police, arrested in May 1914. She was not released from prison until under the amnesty in August. The postcard photography was by courtesy of the 'Daily Mirror'. An iconic image. Fine – unposted – scarce. £190
465. MISS MARY GAWTHORPE [13553] The caption is 'Votes for Women' and she is described as 'Organiser, Women's Social and Political Union,
4 Clement's Inn, Strand, W.C. The card was posted in South Kensington on 31 Oct 1908 – the writer says 'This is one of the speakers I heard on Thursday. She is splendid…'. The sender probably heard Mary Gawthorpe at the WSPU meeting held in the Albert Hall on Thursday 29 oct 1908. Good £65
466. MISS MURIEL MATTERS OF AUSTRALIA, LECTURER [12918] Women's Freedom League 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, London WC. The card, headed 'Votes for Women' , shows Muriel Matters seated, reading a book and was published by the WFL Fine – unposted £120
467. MRS CHARLOTTE DESPARD [13276] real photographic postcard of her – taken in profile. She is sitting reading a book. On the reverse, written in pencil, is 'Mrs Despard – (Sister of Sir John General french) & President of the Women's Suffrage National Aid Corps, organised by the Women's Freedom League. return to Mrs Thomson-Price, 42 Parkhill Rd, Hampstead'. £45
468. MRS EMMELINE PANKHURST [13240] real photographic postcard. She is wearing a shield-shaped WSPU badge – in the chevron design. Fine – unposted – a rather unusual image – the first I've had in stock since 2000. £75
469. MRS HENRY FAWCETT, LL.D [13239] 'President of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies', is the caption below her photograph by Lizzie Caswall Smith. Probably dates from c 1910. Fine – unposted -although written on the back in pencil is 'Return to Mrs Thomson-Price 42 Parkhill Road, Hampstead N.W.' The card comes from the collection of Louisa Thomson-Price, one of the leading members of the Women's Freedom League. £60
470. MRS LILIAN M. HICKS [11634] – photographed by Lena Connell – an official Women's Freedom League photographic postcard. Mrs Hicks had been an early member of the WSPU, but left to join the WFL in the 1907 split, returning in 1910 to the WSPU. Fine – unposted £35
471. MRS MARTEL [13255] Real photographic postcard captioned 'Mrs Martel National Women's Social and Political Union, 4 Clement's Inn, W.C.' Cornish-born Nellie Martel had emigrated to Australia and on her return devoted herself to the WSPU. She had a reputation as a gaudy dresser and certainly here she is dripping in flounces and jewllery – with a rather charingly amused smile. Very good – unposted – scarce. £90
472. MRS PANKHURST AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE INVITING THE AUDIENCE TO 'RUSH' THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON 13 OCTOBER [13617] Published by Sandle Bros for the National Union of Women's Social and Political Union in 1908. Fine – unposted £75
473. PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OUTSIDE THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE ROOM [13549] in Hoe Street, Walthamstow. The photograph shows a group on the pavement outside the Committee Rooms with a board on which is written 'New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage'. In front of them, on the road, is parked a large motor car, to the front of which is attached another large board inscribed in large letters 'New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage'. Sitting in the car and waving a large flag is an elegant, grandly be-hatted woman. I have never before seen a photograph of the New Constitutional Society at work, as it were. Kate Frye, our main source of information on the NCS, was not yet quite involved in that society – in fact on the day this card was posted, 28 October 1910, she was attending a meeting of the Actresses' Franchise League at their office – so I can give no inside information on the NCS campaign at this Walthamstow by-election. This by-election was of particular interest to suffrage campaigners because the Liberal candidate was a cabinet minister, Sir John Simon. Election day was on Tuesday 1 November and the sender of the card, who posted it from Leyton at 7 pm on Friday 28th Oct, was one of the NCS campaigners. She tells her correspondent that 'We are frantically busy working at Walthamstow By Election. Meetings every day and evening.' She does not, alas, sign her name – but the recipient was Mrs Radcliffe Crocker of Brant Ridge, Bourne End, Bucks. This is something of a coincidence because Kate Frye called on Mrs Crocker the following 1 May (1911) when she was canvassing for support for a new NCS suffrage society in Bourne End (her home town). Mrs Crocker, the widow of an eminent dermatologist, was, Kate tells us, 'in, but no good' – so doubtless hadn't been particularly impressed by the postcard sender's Walthamstow campaigning. From the photograph I think that the NCS must have been sharing a committeee room with the Men's Suffrage League – it certainly is not the Committee Room taken by the WSPU. Above the door is a sign 'Men's League Walk In' – the windows are lined with posters and, with the Men's League, the Women's Freedom League and the WSPU, the NCS took part the following day in a procession through Walthamstow that ended with a meeting in Walthamstow Palace Theatre. There is no photographer or publisher of the postcard named – the photo may have been taken by a NCS member – and the image is of the sepia type – rather than crisp black and white. However the image is quite clear – most interesting on a variety of counts – and extremely unusual – I won't say unique because there were clearly more than one card issued – but I should imagine the chances of finding another were extremely remote. £200
474. 'RUINS OF ST KATHERINE'S CHURCH, BURNT DOWN MAY 6 1913 [11824] Real photographic card. There are several images published on postcards of the ruins of St Catherine's (this is the correct spelling; the card's publisher was a bit slapdash) Church at Hatcham in Surrey, for the burning of which the suffragettes were thought responsible – but I have never seen this one before. £35
475. 'SUFFRAGETTE' POSTCARD [13243] real photographic card – though it must be staged. Set in what appears to be the country – with trees and flowers – it shows a woman in loose-fitting jacket and long skirt – with one of the shield-shaped chevron WSPU badges pinned to her lapel, being apprehended by a policeman in helmet and uniform and sporting an imposing display of medals. The point of the photograph is that the woman is holding out for him to see a copy of the 'Suffragette' newspaper. I have never seen this image before. It is issued as a postcard – but no photographer or publisher is cited. Most unusual – unposted – very good (with a slight crease at the bottom right-hand corner where it has been held in (Louisa Thomson-Price's) postcard album £120
476. SUFFRAGETTE PROCESSION [13545] Real photographic postcard – an unusual view of the 1911 'Coronation Procession'. The photograph, published as a postcard by J. J. Samuels, 371 Stramd, London W.C., shows the 'Pageant of Great Women' part of the procession walking the street that goes out of Trafalgar and merges into Pall Mall. The photograph has been taken from an upper window of one of the buildings on the south side of the street and gives an excellent view not only of the procession but of London's buildings decorated for the Coronation. The streets are packed with onlookers. Unposted – reverse a little grubby but the front is in very good condition. Unusual £120
477. THE IMPRISONED LEADERS 22 May 1912 Portrait photo of Mrs Pankhurst, flanked by similar images of Emmeline and Frederick Pethick-Lawrence [13615] on a real photographic card published by F. Kehrhahn & Co (for more on whom see https://womanandhersphere.com/2013/01/17/suffrage-stories-the-wspu-photographer-dora-and-the-nazis/) In May it looked as though the leaders were united in their imprisonment; on their release a different story emerged. Fine – unusual – unposted £80
478. THE WOMEN'S GUILD OF EMPIRE [12877] 'souvenir packet' of 6 postcards, in their original printed paper envelope, published by the Women's Guild of Empire. The cards are: 1) 'Women's Guild of Empire Committee' – the 6 members of the Committee, who included Flora Drummond and Elsie Bowerman, sit around a table; 2) Mrs R.S Henderson, president; 3) Mrs Flora Drummond, Controller-in-Chief; 4) WGE banner 'Peace Unity Concord' surrounded by members; 5) Banner Making for the Great Demonstration April 17th 1926 – Mrs Drummond under an 'Efficiency and Enterprise' banner; 6) 'Women Pipers from the Lothians' – with Mrs Drummond in control Scottishness was to the fore. An extremely rare set – I have never seen any of these cards before – and, in general, there are few images of the Guild of Empire and its work. The printed envelope carries details of the 'Objects' of the Guild and of its work. All cards in pristine condition – dating, I assume, to c 1926. As a set £220
479. VOTES FOR WOMEN [13256] one of those real photographic 'comic' cards with young man dressed as a woman standing behind a table and a large 'Votes for Women' blackboard. He is holding a large knife (I think) in one hand and a bottle of beer – Benksins Watford – in the other. It is signed across the bottom right corner 'Your old Pal Dan' £35
480. VOTES FOR WOMEN: The Long and the Short of It [13602] Real photographic card of a young Lancashire lass is marched through Parliament's Palace Yard by two tall policemen.. She is shouting, her hair is loose and her skirt has been pulled open at the waistband, buttons undone. Underneath the caption, the sender has written in ink 'I saw this the other night was it….?' But that question was probably intended as a joke. Posted in South Lambeth to Clapton on 31 December 1908. Very good £75
481. WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE Miss Sarah Benett [12950] photographed by Lena Connell. In this studio photograph Sarah Benett is wearing her WFL Holloway brooch; she was for a time the WFL treasurer. She was also a member of the WSPU and of the Tax Resistance League. This photograph by Lena Connell was also used on a WFL-published postcard – but this one is not attributed to the WFL. The background to the image is little irridescent. £100
482. WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE Mrs Amy Sanderson [12919] Women's Freedom League, 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, London WC. She had been a member of the WSPU, and, as such had endured one term of imprisonment, before helping to found the WFL in 1907. She is, I think, wearing her WFL Holloway brooch in the photograph. Card, published by WFL, fine – unusual – unposted £150
483. WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE Mrs Edith How-Martyn , ARCS, BSc [12917] Hon Sec Women's Freedom League 1 Robert Street, Adelphi, London WC. She is wearing herWFL Holloway brooch. Photographed by M.P. Co (London) – which I think is probably the Merchants Portrait Co in Kentish Town that did a fair amount of work for the WFL. The card is headed 'Votes for Women' and was published by the WFL. Fine – unposted £120
484. WOMEN'S FREEDOM LEAGUE Mrs Marion Holmes [12921] card headed 'Votes for Women' published by the Women's Freedom League, 1 Robert St, Adelphi, London WC. Mrs Holmes was joint editor of the WFL paper 'The Vote'. She is photoraphed wearing herWFL Holloway badge as well as one of the WFL enamel badges. Fine – unusual – unposted £120
Suffrage Artists' Cards
485. ARTISTS' SUFFRAGE LEAGUE Miss Jane Bull [13010] addresses Master Johnnie Bull, asking, 'Give me a bit of your Franchise Cake, Johnnie' He replies 'It wouldn't be good for you' She responds 'How can you tell if you won't let me try it? it doesn't hurt those other little girls' – she points to Finnish, New Zealand, Australian and Norwegian children – boys and girls.Postcard published by the Artists' Suffrage League. The artists are 'C.H. & D.M.' Very good – unposted £95
486. COMPANIONS IN DISGRACE [13555] – the sweet girl graduate stands, robed, alongside a convict in his arrowed suit. The heading is 'Polling Booth' and the caption 'Companions in Disgrace' refers to their shared characteristic. The verse below explains further: 'Convicts and Women kindly note,/ Are not allowed to have the vote…' etc. Drawn by 'C.H.' and published by the Artists' Suffrage League. Very good – unposted £65
487. YOUNG NEW ZEALAND [13230] cycles on her modern bicycle with its two wheels equal in size. The front one is labelled 'Male and Female' and the back one 'Equal Electoral Rights'. She calls out to old John Bull who is struggling atop a penny farthing, 'Oh Grandpapa! what a funny old machine. Why don't you get one like mine?' The artist is JHD [Joan Harvey Drew]. Published by the Artists' Suffrage League. Very good- unposted – v scarce £95
Commercial Artists' cards
488. ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? NO! [13603] Black and white postcard by Donald McGill – suffragette, holding on to her 'Votes for Women' banner, is carried into the Police Court by a policeman – her bottom very much to the fore – her umbrella fallen to the ground. Good – posted in Battersea on, I think, 24 December 1906 £45
489. 'AT THE SUFFRAGETTE MEETINGS [13612] you can hear some plain things – and see them too!' – is the caption to a card showing depictions of suffragettes as buck-toothed old maids. Very good – unposted £45
490. A BIRTHDAY 'GRATING' [13622] a Donald McGill postcard. 'Though your hand I cannot grasp/Though your face I cannot see/To greet you on your Birthday/I send this card to thee'. Young woman is handing a card up to the grating of 'H.M. Prison Suffragette Block' – as a hand reaches out to grasp it. Good. Posted on, I think, 18 August 1914 £45
491. 'HI! MISS! YER TROWSERS IS A-COMING DOWN' [12507] shouts tyke to elegant young woman sporting 'harem' trousers. Pre-First World War, pub by Felix McGlennon. Not actually 'suffrage' but of the time. Very good – very glossy £25
492. JACK AT SEA: NO FEAR OF THE LICENSING BILL OR SUFFRAGETTES [13557] is the caption to colour picture showing sailor sitting on coiled rope on his ship – knocking back a tot. The coupling of the Licensing Bill with mention of Suffragettes probably dates the card to 1908 – when the government was proposing a controversial new Licensing Bill. In Sept 1908 there was a large procession through London, culminating with a mass rally in Hyde Park, to protest against the Licensing Bill – just as there had been similar events staged in June in support of women's suffrage. Very good – unposted – unusual £55
493. 'NOT IN THOSE TROUSERS' [12506] is the caption to a hand-painted postcard (the artist has initialed it 'K.S.'). The subject of the remark is a lady in a purple and green outfit – a long tunic over 'harem' trousers – wearing a green and purple hat and carrying an umbrella. The author of the remark, a dapper gentleman, stands in the background. The colouring may indicate that a suffrage inference might be drawn – the style of dress certainly points to an early-20th-century date. Very good – unposted £15
494. SUFFRAGETTE IN ACTION [13613] Subtitled 'Man's Reward' – Edwardian behatted lady strikes policeman over the helmet with a golf club. Good – posted in 1907. £45
495. THE MARRIAGE MARKET IN 1950 A Glimpse Into The Future [13607] Shackled gentlemen of various description are paraded for inspection by the ladies – one with a lorgnette is peering at bowler-hatted individual. Another is labelled 'Very docile 18/6' and a clergyman is 'Only 4d'. Very good – very colourful – unposted £45
496. THE SUFFRAGETTE Addresses a meeting of Citizens [13620] A card from a Raphael Tuck series. 'the Suffragette' – masculinized, wild-eyed, and wearing a boater and tie harangues a few snotty-nosed childrenIn Raphael Tuck 'The Suffragette' Good – posted in 1908 £45
497. THIS IS THE HOUSE THAN MAN BUILT [13551] And this is the policeman all tattered and torn/Who wished women voters had never been born,/Who nevertheless /Tho it caused him distress/Ran them all in,/In spite of their dress:/The poor Suffragette/Who wanted to get/Into The House than man built. With House of Commons in the background, a policeman is battered by one suffragette as he attempts to aprehend another – virgagos both, of course. In the BB London Series. In very good condition – posted on 30 April 1909 £45
498. THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT MAN BUILT [13550] 'And these are the members who've been sitting late/Coming out arm in arm, from a lengthy debate…' Fashionably dressed couple, he in top hat and frock coat emerge, engaged in reasonable discussion, from the Houses of Parliament. An ink line at under the text carries the message 'Will we ever live to see this.' In BB London Series. Very good – posted in Clapton on 12 May 1909. £45
499. THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT MAN BUILT [13552] 'And this is the home of the poor suffragette/And there's room for a great many more of them in it yet…' Burly suffragette being taken in hand by a policeman – with the towers of Holloway in the background. In BB London series. Very good- unposted £45
500. THIS IS 'THE HOUSE' THAT MAN BUILT [13609] And these are the Suffragettes of note/determinded to fight for their right to vote;/For they mean to be, each one an M.P./And they'll keep their vow some fine day you'll see,/For the Suffragette is determined to get/Into, 'The House' that man built. Elegantly dressed ladies stand waving their 'Votes for Women' notices in front of the Houses of Parliament.. In very good condition – posted in 1912 £45
501. THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT MAN BUILT [13610] 'The House that our statesmen for years have controlled/Ruling the world with mind fearless and bold/Can Woman expect to rule such a House/She that's afraid of a poor little mouse….' Suffragettes stands on stool as mouse scuttles past – with House of Commons in background. Good – posted 1912 £45
502. THIS IS THE HOUSE THAT MAN BUILT [13611] 'And this is the poor little Suffragette/Who tried, Oh so hard/ in this House to get…..' Suffragette in prison clothes sits eating her gruel with the House of Commons in the background. Very good – posted in 1910. £45
503. VALENTINE SUFFRAGETTE SERIES Gimme a Vote You Cowards [13605] Printed in red and balck on white – policemen have a suffragette flat on the ground – while other comrades demosntrate around. Good – has been posted, but stamp removed £45
504. VALENTINE SUFFRAGETTE SERIES Give Us a Vote Ducky! Oh do, There's a Dear [13606] wheedle three women as they make up to an aging gent. The caption reads 'Why not try the Good Old Way?' The sender has added little ink comments of her own (at least I think the sender was a woman). Good. Posted on 17 August 1907.
505. VALENTINE SUFFRAGETTE SERIES Safe in the Arms of a Policeman[13604] Printed in red and black on white – dishevelled viragos are carried away by red-faced policemen. Good £45
506. WHEN LOVELY WOMAN GETS THE VOTE [13619] She is in tousers and he is in skirt and pantaloons. 'When Lovely Woman gets the Vote/The Men will look such Freaks!/She doesn't want his hat and coat,/But Woman will wear the Breaks!' isn't that Funny! Very good – unposted £45
507. BARTON, Edith And CODY, Marguerite Eve in Khaki:the story of the Women's Army at home and abroad Thomas Nelson, no date (1918) [12577] Part I – in England by Edith M. Barton. Part II – In France by Marguerite Cody. The First World War and the early years of the WAAC. Very good £38
508. CAHILL, Audrey Fawcett Between the Lines: letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit Pentland Press 1999 [11675] Soft covers – mint £15
509. DEARMER, Mabel Letters from a Field Hospital: with a memoir of the author by Stephen Gwynn Macmillan 1916 [12640] In April 1915 Mabel Dearmer, the wife of the Christian socialist Rev Percy Dearmer, went out to work with Mrs Stobart in Serbia. She died of enteric fever in July. Very good internally – cream cloth cover a little grubby – scarce £75
510. DENT, Olive A V.A.D. in France Grant Richards Ltd 1917 [12636] Autobiographical account of nursing in France in the First World War. Very good, with atmospheric pictorial cloth cover £75
511. FARMBOROUGH, Florence Russian Album 1908-1918 Michael Russell 1979 [12645] Photographs taken both before and during the First World War by Florence Farmborough, who first went to Russia in 1908 – and left in 1918. At the outbreak of war she served with the Russian Red Cross. An amazing collection. Large format, fine in d/w £28
512. [HALL] Edith Hall Canary Girls & Stockpots WEA Luton Branch 1977 [12884] Memories of life in the First World War – and of the '20s and '30s. During the War Edith Hall's mother was landlady to munition workers – 'the Canaries' (so called because the chemicals turned their skin yellow) at the Hayes factories.
Soft covers – signed by the author £10
513. MCLAREN, Eva Shaw (ed) A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals Hodder & Stoughton 1919 [12638] A very full history of the work of the SWH in the First World War. With 57 illustrations, including a marvellous pull-out panoramic photograph of the Salonika hospital in 1918 – huts and tents as far as the eye can see. 408pp – very good -with new endpapers and a little foxing – scarce £65
514. MARLOW, Joyce (ed) The Virago Book of Women and the Great War Virago 1998 [11926] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £12
515. (ROSS) Ishobel Ross Little Grey Partridge Aberdeen University Press 1988 [12153] 'First World War diary of Ishobel Ross, who served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals Unit in Serbia.' With an introduction by Jess Dixon. Paper covers – fine £10
516. STONE, Gilbert (ed) Women War Workers: accounts contributed by representative workers of the work done by women in the more important branches of war employment George G. Harrap & Co 1917 [12631] With a foreword by Lady Jellicoe. Chapters on: munition work; the land; work as a postwoman; banking; as a bus conductor; driver of butcher's delivery cart; nursing at the Front in France; work as a V.A.D.; working with 'Concerts at the Front'; and welfare work. Includes a chapter on War Organisations for Women, full of facts and figures – with 12 photographs. Very good – a surprisingly scarce book £60
517. The Deportation of Women and Girls from Lille Hodder & Stoughton 1916 [12197] 'Translated textually from the Note addressed by the French Government to the Governments of Neutral Powers on the conduct of the German Authorities towards the population of the French Departments in the occupation of the enemy.' 81-pp – paper covers – good £12
518. BIBESCO, Princesse La Revue de Paris extrait du numero du 15 mai 1934: Lettres de Combattants Anglais Paris 1934 [11636] A lengthy review of 'War Letters of Fallen Englishmen (Lettres de guerre d'hommes anglais qui sont tombes) compiled by Laurence Housman. She reviews it at length (24pp), quoting from letters of both the well known (Julian Grenfell, Edward Tennant) and the unknown. Very good – paper covers – offprint of the journal £4
519. GRANT, LILIAS and MOIR, ETHEL 'Uncensored Diary' and 'Uncensored Letters' [12590] Lilias Grant wrote the 'Uncensored Diary' and her friend, Ethel Moir, the 'Uncensored Letters' while on service together – as orderlies – with Dr Elsie Inglis' Serbian-Russian Unit of the Scottish Women's Hospitals in Rumania and Russia between August 1916 and April 1917. Also in that unit were Elsie Bowerman and Yvonne Fitzroy – and many other figures now well known to students of the SWH make frequent appearances. Ethel Moir did further service with the SWH between Feb 1918 and Jan 1919 with the 'Elsie Inglis Unit' in Salonika, Verbiliani and Hordiack and recorded that experience in a second section of the 'Uncensored Letters'. These foolscap typescripts (or, in the case of the Moir Letters, a xerox of the tss) have been bound and were each inscribed by Lilias Grant (by then Mrs Lilias Dyson) and given in 1972 to her friends Nina and Ian Cameron of North Petherton, Somerset. Laid in the Moir volume is a letter from her husband, Dacre Dyson, explaining that there are only 3 copies of the Moir tss (and, by inference, also of the Grant Diary). One set is this set, owned by the Camerons, one is in the possession of Ethel Moir's sister and the Dysons' own set is destined, in due course, to be given to Edinburgh Central Library. Lilias Dyson died in 1975 and her husband in 1980 and their set of tss is now in the ECL. Indeed it was after reading the tss there that the playwright Abigail Docherty wrote her SWH play 'Sea, Land and Sky', staged at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow in 2010. Audrey Cahill published excerpts from the diary and letters in 'Between the Lines' (see item # ). Although she been unable to find anything further about Lilias Grant, the extra information provided in the laid-in letter and note that accompanies these volumes has made it possible to establish that, born in York in 1880, in 1922 she married Dacre Dyson, a Ceylon tea planter. They lived in Ceylon until at least 1938 and after the Second World War were living in Burley in Hampshire. Ethel Moir and Lilias Grant, who were both living in Inverness, had been friends before, together, joining the SWH The whereabouts of the third set of the tss is at the moment unknown.
The tss have been very well bound and are in fine condition (with one very small scuff on the spine of 'Uncensored Letters') – with presentation inscription from Lilias Grant and laid-in letter and note from her husband. Extremely scarce £500
520. HMSO Munitions of War Employment and Remuneration of Girls under 18 years of age on Munition Work of a class customarily done by Male Labour of 18 years and over HMSO 1916 [12190] Order dated July 6, 1916. 4-pp leaflet – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £8
521. HMSO Munitions of War HMSO 1916 [12583] Order, dated June 26, 1916, of the Minister of Munitions. 4-pp leaflet – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £3
522. MEDICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE AND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH Reports of the Industrial Fatigue Research Board HMSO 1919 [12194] No 2 – The Output of Women Workers in Relation to Hours of Work in Shell-Making. 24-pp – good in original paper covers – withdrawn from the Women's Library £15
523. SCOTTISH WOMEN'S FIRST AID CORPS [12892] natural-coloured linen canvas satchel with the initials 'S.W.F.A.C.' [Scottish Women's First Aid Corps] machine-embroidered in red on the front.The satchel hangs from a long red grosgrain ribbon strap which has a buckle for altering its length. The bag still contains an Esmarch's Triangular Bandage – printed with images of how to apply, in a variety of ways, the bandage to wounded men, together with two packs labelled 'Scottish Women's First Aid Corps First Field Dressing', supplied by J. Gordon Nicholson, Pharmaceutical Chemist, 15 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, and two small safety pins on a piece of card, presumably to be used for fixing the bandages. Luckily this SWFAC member was required to put the bandages to the test. The SWFAC had been formed in 1909 by Mary E. Macmillan and came into its own in the First World War, appealing to middle and upper-middle class women who wanted to 'do their bit'. The SWFAC ran classes in First Aid and sick nursing and some of its recruits then went out to nurse in Italy and Serbia. Very good – an unusual survival £120
524. THE WOMEN'S IMPERIAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION Sixth Annual Report 1915 [12796] The Associations's first Aim was 'To teach the women of the Empire the elementary principles in health; particularly with reference to the care and nurture of children'. This annual report gives full details of the Association, its work, and its subscribers and supporters. With many photographs. Paper covers – 52pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £10
525. MACAULAY, Rose Three Days Constable & Co 1919 [12622] Poems. Already an established novelist, during the First World War Rose Macaulay worked as a VAD nurse and a land girl and in early 1917 joined the War Office. Good – a little chipped on spine – in wrapper cover. £25
526. MARCHANT, Bessie A Girl Munition Worker: a story of a girl's work during the Great War Blackie [1916] [13002] Novel of the First World by 'the girls' Henry'. This would appear to be a first edition -with an ownership inscription for 'Xmas 1916' on free front end paper In original pictorial cloth cover – cloth rubbed and corners bumped – very scarce £45
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Perhaps also of interest:
The Women's Suffrage Movement 1866-1928: A reference guide
Elizabeth Crawford
'It is no exaggeration to describe Elizabeth Crawford's Guide as a landmark in the history of the women's movement…' History Today
Routledge, 2000 785pp paperback £74.99
Ebook £70
The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: a regional survey
Elizabeth Crawford
'Crawford provides meticulous accounts of the activists, petitions, organisations, and major events pertaining to each county.' Victorian Studies
Routledge, 2008 320pp paperback £30
Ebook £26
Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle
Elizabeth Crawford
'Crawford's scholarship is admirable and Enterprising Women offers increasingly compelling reading' Journal of William Morris Studies
Francis Boutle, 2002 338pp 75 illus paperback £25
Campaigning for the Vote: The Suffrage Diary of Kate Parry Frye
Edited by Elizabeth Crawford
An extract
'Saturday June 14th 1913. [Kate is lodging in Baker Street, London]
I had had a black coat and skirt sent there for Miss Davison's funeral procession and the landlady had given me permission to change in her room. I tore into my black things then we tore off by tube to Piccadilly and had some lunch in Lyons. But the time was getting on – and the cortege was timed to start at 2 o'clock from Victoria. We saw it splendidly at the start until we were driven away from our position and then could not see for the crowds and then we walked right down Buckingham Palace Rd and joined in the procession at the end. It was really most wonderful – the really organised part – groups of women in black with white lilies – in white and in purple – and lots of clergymen and special sort of pall bearers each side of the coffin. She gave her life publicly to make known to the public the demand of Votes for Women – it was only fitting she should be honoured publicly by the comrades. It must have been most imposing. [Plus much more description of the procession as Kate follows it into King's Cross station]
Campaigning for the Vote tells, in her own words, the efforts of a working suffragist to instil in the men and women of England the necessity of 'votes for women' in the years before the First World War. The detailed diary kept all her life by Kate Parry Frye (1878-1959) has been edited to cover 1911-1915, years she spent as a paid organiser for the New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage. The book constitutes that near impossibility – completely new primary material, published for the first time 100 years after the events it records.
With Kate for company we experience the reality of the 'votes for women' campaign as, day after day, in London and in the provinces, she knocks on doors, arranges meetings, trembles on platforms, speaks from carts in market squares, village greens, and seaside piers, enduring indifference, incivility and even the threat of firecrackers under her skirt.
Kate's words bring to life the world of the itinerant organiser – a world of train journeys, of complicated luggage conveyance, of hotels – and hotel flirtations – , of boarding houses, of landladies, and of the 'quaintness' of fellow boarders. This was not a way of life to which she was born, for her years as an organiser were played out against the catastrophic loss of family money and enforced departure from a much-loved home. Before 1911 Kate had had the luxury of giving her time as a volunteer to the suffrage cause; now she depended on it for her keep.
No other diary gives such an extensive account of the working life of a suffragist, one who had an eye for the grand tableau – such as following Emily Wilding Davison's cortege through the London streets – as well as the minutiae of producing an advertisement for a village meeting. Moreover Kate Frye gives us the fullest account to date of the workings of the previously shadowy New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage. She writes at length of her fellow workers, never refraining from discussing their egos and foibles. After the outbreak of war in August 1914 Kate continued to work for some time at the society's headquarters, helping to organize its war effort, her diary entries allowing us to experience her reality of life in war-time London.
Excerpts from Campaigning for the Vote featured in 'The Women's Rebellion', episode 2 of Michael Portillo's Radio 4 series, 1913: The Year Before –listen here http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b02mxyyz
Published by Francis Boutle Publishers – http://www.francisboutle.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=102&osCsid=f25354bc872ffc120b251b6b63915492
Wrap-around paper covers, 226 pp, over 70 illustrations, all drawn from Kate Frye's personal archive. £14.99
Copies of these books may be bought direct from the publishers or ordered from any bookshop (terrestrial or online – Foyles online has a particularly good offer on Campaigning for the Vote – see http://www.foyles.co.uk/Public/Shop/Search.aspx?searchBy=1&term=crawford+campaigning+for+the+vote&quick=true)
ITV has selected Kate Frye – to be portrayed by a leading young actress – as one of the main characters in 'The People's Story', a documentary series to be launched in July mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Click here http://tinyurl.com/py2x3p4 -to view a trailer for the series. In addition Kate's Story: the life and times of Kate Parry Frye (1878-1959), written by Elizabeth Crawford, will be issued as an e-book by ITV Publishing to coincide with the series.