text:
Woman and her Sphere
Catalogue 184
Elizabeth Crawford
5 Owen's Row
London EC1V 4NP
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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, Sally Women's Work in 19th-century London: a study of the years 1820-50 Journeyman Press 1983 [12147] First published in 'The Rights and Wrongs of Women' (ed Mitchell and Oakley, 1976). Soft covers – fine £8
3.ANDREWS, Maggie The Acceptable Face of Feminism: the Women's Institute as a social movement Lawrence & Wishart 1997 [9533] Soft covers – mint £9
4.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
5.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
6.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
7.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
8.AVERY, Gillian Behold the Child: American children and their books 1621-1922 Bodley Head 1994 [12410] Studies how the literature of the old world influenced the new. With many illustrations. Heavy. Fine in fine d/w £10
9.BARRATT, Alexandra (ed) Women's Writing in Middle English Longman 1992 [11954] In Longmans Annotated Texts series. Soft covers – fine £10
10.BASCH, Françoise Relative Creatures: Victorian women in society and the novel Schocken Books 1974 [13467] Very good £4
11.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
12.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
13.BLAIR, Kirstie Form & Faith in Victorian Poetry & Religion OUP 2012 [13693] 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
14.BLOCH, R. Howard Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love University of Chicago Press 1991 [11978] Soft covers – fine £18
15.BLOOM, Stanley The Launderette: a history Duckworth 1988 [10201] Soft covers – very good £10
16.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
17.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
18.BOSANQUET, Mrs Bernard Rich and Poor Macmillan 2nd ed, reprinted,1908 [12641] The Introduction begins 'The separation between rich and poor in our large towns, and more especially in London, has often been pointed out as one of the most characteristic and threatening signs of the times.' Plus ça change. A plea – with facts, figures and case studies – for greater understanding between the classes. £12
19.BRANDON, Ruth Other People's Daughters: the life and times of the governess Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008 [11942] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £12
20.BRITTAIN, Vera Lady Into Woman: a history of women from Victoria to Elizabeth II Andrew Dakers 1953 [13161] Good – though ex-public library £8
21.BROOKE, Christopher The Medieval Idea of Marriage OUP 1989 [11985] Fine in fine d/w £15
22.BROWN, Marie Sweated Labour: a study of homework Low Pay Unit 1975 (r/p) [13112] Full of real-life stories as well as facts and figures. 26pp – fine in paper covers £10
23.BRUMBERG, Joan Jacobs Fasting Girls: the history of anorexia nervosa Vintage 2000 [11925] Soft covers – fine £8
24.BRUNN, Emilie Zum and EPINEY-BURGARD, Georgette Women Mystics in Medieval Europe Paragon House 1989 [11958] Translated from French. Soft covers – fine £12
25.BULLEY, A. Amy and WHITLEY, Margaret Women's Work Methuen 1894 [12108] With a preface by Lady Dilke. In the 'Social Questions of To-day' series. Very good in original cloth – scarce £55
26.BUNDTZEN, Lynda The Other Ariel Sutton 2005 [12035] An examination of Plath's original typescript for 'Ariel', comparing it to the version that was published by Ted Hughes. First published 2001. Soft covers – mint £5
27.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
28.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
29.BUTLER, C.V. Domestic Service: an enquiry by the Women's Industrial Council Garland Publishing 1980 [12114] Facsimile reprint of the study first published by G. Bell & Sons in 1916. £20
30.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
31.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
32.BYTHELL, Duncan The Sweated Trades; outwork in 19th-century Britain Batsford 1978 [12110] Very good in d/w £12
33.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
34.CALVERTON,V.F.and SCHMALHAUSEN, S.D. (eds) Sex in Civilsation Macaulay Co (NY) 1929 (reprint) [12650] With an introduction by Havelock Ellis. Contributors include Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Margaret Sanger. Good – 719pp – heavy £12
35.CANTARELLA, Eva Bisexuality in the Ancient World Yale University Press, 2nd ed 2002 [12444] Soft covers – fine £5
36.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
37.CHICAGO, Judy and LUCIE-SMITH, Edward Women and Art: contested territory Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1999 [12425] Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith choose significant images of women – and discuss the many issues that arise. Large format – heavy – fine in fine d/w £12
38.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
39.CLARKE, Patricia The Governesses: letters from the colonies 1862-1882 Hutchinson 1985 [12463] Fine in fine d/w £7
40.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
41.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
42.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
43.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
44.CRAIG, Elizabeth Housekeeping Collins 1947 [13047] With many photographs. In 'Elizabeth Craig's Household Library' series. Good in torn d/w £8
45.CRAWFORD, Elizabeth Enterprising Women: the Garretts and their circle Francis Boutle 2009 (r/p) [12677] Pioneering access to education at all levels for women, including training for the professions, the women of the Garrett circle opened the way for women to gain employment in medicine, teaching, horticulture and interior design – and were also deeply involved in the campaign for women's suffrage. Soft covers, large format, over 70 illustrations. Mint – new book £25
46.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
47.DAVIDOFF, Leonore Worlds Between: historical perspectives on gender and class Routledge 1995 [12115] Soft covers – fine £12
48.DAVIS, Natalie Zemon Society and Culture in Early Modern France Polity Press 1998 (r/p) [11944] Soft covers – fine £14
49.DAVISON, Peter The Fading Smile: poets in Boston from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath W.W. Norton 1994 [12031] Soft covers – fine £12
50.DICKENS, Andrea Janelle Female Mystic: great women thinkers of the Middle Ages I.B. Tauris 2009 [11947] Soft covers – fine £10
51.DINNERSTEIN, Dorothy The Rocking of the Cradle and the Ruling of the World Women's Press 1987 [11937] Soft covers – fine £7
52.DUBY, Georges Medieval Marriage: two models from 12th-century France John Hopkins University Press 1991 (r/p) [11984] Soft covers – fine £12
53.DYHOUSE, Carol Feminism and the Family in England 1880-1939 Basil Blackwell 1989 [11224] Soft covers – very good £12
54.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
55.EVERGATES, Theodore (ed) Aristocratic Women in Medieval France University of Pennsylvania Press 1999 [11979] Soft covers – very good £17
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 £25
58.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
59.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
60.GOLDSMITH, Margaret Women and the Future Lindsay Drummond 1946 [12101] A study of what the position was likely to be in the post-Second World War world. Scarce.Fine – in very slightly chipped d/w £25
61.GOLDSMITH, Margaret Women at War Lindsay Drummond Ltd (1943) [12602] Study of women's work and life during the Second World War. Many photographs. Good £20
62.HASLETT, Caroline The Electrical Handbook for Women English Universities' Press revised ed, 1936 [13682] All the housewife needed to know about electricity in the home. Fine in elegantly period d/w £12
63.HELSINGER, Elizabeth Et Al (eds) The Woman Question: Social Issues, 1837-1883 Manchester University Press 1983 [12150] Volume II of 'The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883'. Fine £15
64.HELSINGER, Elizabeth K. Et Al (eds) The Woman Question: Society and Literature in Britain and America, 1837-1883 Manchester University Press 1983 [12151] Vol 1, 'Defining Voices'. Focuses on representative texts, figures and controversies for what they reveal about the general character of the Woman Question rather than their historical connections with earlier and later phases of the debate. Fine £15
65.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
66.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
67.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
68.HOLLIS, Patricia Ladies Elect: women in English local government 1865-1914 OUP 1987 [13264] Excellent study. Paper covers – good – now a scarce book £23
69.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
70.HOLTBY, Winifred Women John Lane 1941 (r/p) [12102] First published in 1934. Good reading copy – spine nicked and marked £12
71.HORSFIELD, Margaret Biting the Dust: the joys of housework Fourth Estate 1997 [10183] Mint in d/w £10
72.JAMES, Selma Sex, Race and Class Falling Wall Press 1975 [13193] Paper covers – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
73.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, tha tfollowed 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
74.JEFFREYS, Sheila The Spinster and Her Enemies: feminism and sexuality 1880-1930 Pandora 1985 [12445] Soft covers – fine £8
75.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
76.KAPLAN, Cora Sea Changes: culture and feminism Verso 1986 [12414] Soft covers – fine £8
77.KAYE, Elaine A History of Queen's College, London, 1848-1972 Chatto 1972 [12467] The first college for the higher education of women. Very good in d/w £6
78.KENEALY, Arabella Feminism and Sex-Extinction E.P. Dutton & Co (NY) 1920 [12107] Anti-feminist eugenicist polemic. US edition is scarce. Very good internally – cloth cover a little bumped and rubbed £25
79.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
80.KIRKHAM, Margaret Jane Austen, Feminism and Fiction Harvester 1983 [12415] Soft covers – fine £10
81.KLEIN, Viola Working Wives: a survey of facts and opinions concerning the gainful employment of married women in Britain Institute of Personnel Management no date (1960) [12267] A survey carried out in co-operation with Mass Observation Ltd. Paper covers faded – withdrawn from the Women's Library £10
82.KROLL, Judith Chapters in a Mythology: the poetry of Sylvia Plath Sutton 2007 [12022] First published in 1976. Soft covers – fine £7
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.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
85.LERNER, Gerda The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: from the middle ages to 1870 OUP 1993 [11921] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £13
86.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
87.LLEWELYN DAVIES, Margaret (ed) Life As We Have Known it by Co-operative Working Women Virago 1977 [12131] First published in 1931- with an introduction by Virginia Woolf. Soft covers – good £7
88.LLEWELYN DAVIES, Margaret (ed) Maternity: letters from working women collected by the Women's Co-operative Guild Virago 1984 (r/p) [12143] First published in 1915. Soft covers – very good £8
89.LLEWELYN DAVIES, Margaret (ed) Maternity: letters from working women collected by the Women's Co-operative Guild Virago 1978 [13159] First published in 1915. Soft covers – very good £8
90.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
91.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
92.LOOTENS, Tricia Lost Saints: silence, gender, and Victorian literary canonization University Press of Virginia 1996 [12398] Fine in d/w £35
93.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
94.MACCARTHY, B.G. The Female Pen; women writers and novelists 1621-1818 Cork University Press 1994 [12412] First published in 1944, this edition with an introduction by Janet Todd. Soft covers – 530pp – fine £12
95.MCCRACKEN, Peggy The Romance of Adultery: queenship and sexual transgression in old French literature University of Pennsylvania Press 1998 [11976] Fine in fine d/w £38
96.MCGREGOR, O.R. Divorce in England: a centenary study Heinemann 1957 [10426] Very good in d/w £20
97.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
98.MALVERY, Olive Christian Baby Toilers Hutchinson 1907 [8216] A study of the child workers of Edwardian Britain. Good £38
99.MARKS, Lara Metropolitan Maternity maternity and infant welfare services in early 20th century London Rodopi 1996 [11624] Soft covers – fine £22
100.MARTIN, Jane Women and the Politics of Schooling in Victorian and Edwardian England Leicester University Press 1999 [10781] Mint (pub price £65) £35
101.MASON, Michael The Making of Victorian Sexuality OUP 1994 [10599] Fine in d/w £14
102.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
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.MILL, John Stuart The Subjection of Women Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer 1869 (2nd ed) [13460] In original mustard embossed cloth – top inch or so of spine split and frayed. With faded shelf-mark sticker on spine and label on front paste-down of the Burnley Mechanics' Institute. Front inside hinge a little stretched. Otherwise good internally. I'm pleased to think that the members of the Mechanics' Institute took such an obvious interest in the subject. £85
105.MOTION, Andrew (ed) Interrupted Lives in Literature National Portrait Gallery 2004 [11964] Studies of Angela Carter, Katherine Mansfield, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christopher Marlow, Edward Thomas and Sylvia Plath. Soft covers – fine £7
106.NEWMAN, Barbara From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: studies in medieval religion and literature University of Pennsylvania Press 1995 [11946] Soft covers – fine £15
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.Onlywomen Press Love Your Enemy?: the debate between heterosexual feminism and political lesbianism Onlywomen Press 1981 [13471] Soft covers – good £3
111.ORIGO, Iris The Merchant of Prato: daily life in a medieval Italian city Penguin 1992 (r/p) [11988] Soft covers – fine £5
112. 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
113.OTTER, Samuel Philadelphia Stories: America's literature of race and freedom OUP 2010 [13423] An account of Philadelphia's literary history. Hardback – mint in d/w £12
114.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
115.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
116.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
117.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
118.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
119.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
120.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
121.SERVADIO, Gaia Renaissance Woman I.B. Taurus 2005 [11982] Fine in fine d/w £8
122.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
123.SHOWALTER, Elaine Inventing Herself: claiming a feminist intellectual heritage Picador 2001 [11934] An exploration of feminist intellectuals from the 18th century to the present – from Mary Wollstonecraft to Naomi Woolf. Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £15
124.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
125.SMITH, R.D.(edits and introduces) The Writings of Anna Wickham: free woman and poet Virago 1984 [12037] Soft covers – very good £5
126.SOLANAS, Valerie SCUM Manifesto Matriarchy Study Group 1981 [13123] Good – ex-library £6
127.SPRING RICE, Margery Working-Class Wives: their health and conditions Virago 1989 (r/p) [12123] Second edition. First published in 1939. £5
128.STAFFORD, H.M. Queenswood: the first sixty years 1894-1954 privately printed 1954 [9643] History of the school. Good – ex-college library £12
129.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
130.STEARNS, Peter Gender in World History Routledge 2000 [12568] 'Explores continuities, change and patterns over time. It provides a distinctive approach to the exploration of historical meanings of femininity and masculinity, as well as a contrubtion to world history itself.' Soft covers – mint £8
131.STEVENS, John Medieval Romance: themes and approaches Hutchinson University Library 1973 [11945] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £15
132.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
133. TAYLOR, Barbara Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination CUP 2003 [11898] Soft covers – fine £17
134.TAYLOR, James Baordroom Scandal: the criminalization of company fraud in 19th-century Britain OUP 2013 [13435] Mint in d/w (pub price £60) £38
135.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
136.THE ENGLISHWOMAN'S YEAR BOOK AND DIRECTORY 1904 A & C Black 1904 [10837] Indispensable source of information. Very good internally in library binding £80
137.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
138.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
139.THORMAHLEN, Marianne The Brontes and Religion CUP 2004 [12430] Soft covers – fine £30
140.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
141.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
142.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
143.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
144.WAGNER, Erica Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the story of 'Birthday Letters' Faber 2000 [12021] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £8
145.WALLER, Jane And VAUGHAN-REES, Michael Women in Uniform 1939-45 Papermac 1989 [10344] Paper covers – large format £12
146.WALTER, Natasha Living Dolls: the return of sexism Virago 2010 (r/p) [11936] Soft covers – fine £9
147.WEBSTER'S ROYAL RED BOOK or Court and Fashionable Register for May 1876 Webster and Larkin 1876 [12154] A London street guide (Abbey Gardens, St John's Wood to Young St, Kensington) giving the names of individual householders – combined with a list of the names and addresses of the 'Fashionable' – a wide swathe of middle-class London. A very useful directory. In fair condition – very good internally -clean and tight – but decorative, gilt embossed cloth is rubbed and sewing has parted at inside back cover. This early directory is quite scarce £30
148.WINSTEAD, Karen (ed) Chaste Passions: medieval English virgin martyr legends Cornell University Press 2000 [11983] Soft covers – very good £9
149.WOODBRIDGE, Linda Women and the English Renaissance: literature and the nature of womankind 1540-1620 Harvester 1984 [11986] Hardcover -very good internally – a few small inkspots to front board £25
150.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
General Biography
151.(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
152.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
153.(ALLEN) John C. Hirsh Hope Emily Allen: medieval scholarship and feminism Pilgrim Books (Oklahoma) 1988 [11995] Biography of an American medieval scholar, born in 1883 – who spent time at Newnham. Fine £15
154.(ALVAREZ) Al Alvarez Where Did it All Go Right: an autobioraphy Richard Cohen Books 1999 [12013] Poet, critic, novelist, poker player , rock climber- and friend of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Fine in fine d/w £6
155.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
156.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
157.(BERR) Hélène Berr Journal Maclehose 2008 [12439] The diary of a young Jewish woman in occupied Paris. Translated from the French by David Bellos, with an introduction and an essay by David Bellos and an afterword by Mariette Job. Fine in fine d/w £6
158.(BERRY) Lewis Melville (ed) The Berry Papers: being the correspondence hitherto unpublished of Mary and Agnes Berry (1763-1852) John Lane 1914 [13674] Most engaging letters. With numerous illustrations. Very good £18
159.(BRONTE) Dudley Green Patrick Bronte: father of genius The History Press 2008 [12452] Fine in fine d/w £10
160.(BRONTE) Margaret Smith (ed) Selected Letters of Charlotte Bronte OUP
2010 [13426] With a new introduction by Janet Gezari. Soft covers – mint £3
161.(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
162.(BURNEY) Joyce Hemlow (ed) Fanny Burney: selected letters and journals OUP 1986 [12030] Follows her career from her romantic marriage to the impoverished French émigré General d'Arblay to her death 46 years later. Fine in fine d/w £12
163.(BURNEY) Kate Chisholm Fanny Burney: her life 1752-1840 Vintage 1999 [11969] Soft covers – fine £5
164.(BUTTS) Nathalie Blondel (ed) The Journals of Mary Butts Yale University Press 2002 [12460] 500pp – heavy – mint in mint d/w £20
165.(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
166.(CLIFT) Max Brown Charmian and George; the marriage of George Johnston and Charmian Clift Rosenberg 2004 [12457] The tempestuous relationship of two Australian writers. Soft covers -mint £10
167.(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
168.(COLET) Francine du Plessix Gray Rage and Fire: a life of Louise Colet – pioneer feminist, literary star, Flaubert's muse Hamish Hamilton 1994 [11994] Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £6
170.CRAWFORD, Anne et al (eds) Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women: over 1000 notable women from Britain's Past Europa 1983 [12408] Soft covers – 536pp – fine £10
171.(DE STAEL/CONSTANT) Renee Winegarten Germaine de Stael and Benjamin Constant: a dual biography Yale University Press 2008 [11963] Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £12
172.(DU MAURIER) Judith Cook Daphne: a portrait of Daphne du Maurier Bantam Press 1991 [12400] Very good in d/w £5
173.(DU MAURIER) Martin Shallcross The Private World of Daphne Du Maurier Robson Books 1991 [12399] Biography – by a friend. Fine in d/w £5
174.(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
175.(ELEANOR) Ralph Turner Eleanor of Aquitaine Yale University Press 2009 [11956] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £15
176.(ELIOT) Carole Seymour-Jones Painted Shadow: a lfie of Vivienne Eliot Constable & Robinson 2001 [11992] Fine in fine d/w £9
177.(EUGENIE) Joyce Cartlidge Empress Eugénie: her secret revealed Magnum Opus Press 2008 [13468] The mystery of an illegitimate child…Soft covers – fine £5
178.(FRAME) Janet Frame An Autobiography Women's Press 1991 (r/p) [11999] Contains the three vols that comprise her autobiography – 'To the Is-land', 'An Angel at My Table' and 'The Envoy from Mirror City'. Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £10
179.(GARDINER), Sarah Gardiner (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
180.(GAUTIER) Joanna Richardson Judith Gautier: a biography Quartet 1986 [12432] Biography of French woman of letters – and muse. Soft covers – fine £6
181.(GLASPELL) Barbara Ozieblo Susan Glaspell: a critical biography University of North Carolina Press 2000 [12016] Soft covers – fine in fine d/w £18
182.(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
183.HAYS, Frances Women of the Day: a biographical dictionary of notable contemporaries J.B. Lipincott (Philadelphia) 1885 [12594] A superb biographical source on interesting women. Good in original binding – with library shelf mark in ink on spine- scarce £75
184.(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
185.(HUMBERT) Agnes Humbert Résistance: memoirs of Occupied France Bloomsbury 2008 [12392] Memoirs of Agnes Humbert (1894-1963), an art historian who helped form one of the first organised groups of the French Resistance. First published in France in 1946, this translation, by Barbara Mellor, is the first in English. Mint in d/w £5
186.(JAMESON) Clara Thomas Love and Work Enough: the life of Anna Jameson Macdonald 1967 [12070] Good £10
187.(JAMESON) G.H. Needler (ed) Letters of Anna Jameson to Ottilie von Goethe OUP 1939 [12451] Very good internally – cover marked £20
188.(JAMESON) Judith Johnston Anna Jameson: Victorian, feminist, woman of letters Scolar Press 1997 [12461] An examination of Jameson's non-fiction writing in the context of her life. Mint in mint d/w £20
189.[JEBB] Alice Salomon Eglantyne Jebb Union Internationale de Secours Aux Enfants 1936 [13170] Short study in French. Paper covers – 53pp – very good £5
190.(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
191.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
192.(LAWRENCE) Rosie Jackson Frieda Lawrence Pandora 1994 [12009] Includes 'Not I, But the Wind and other autobiographical writings'. Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £8
193.(LEIGH) Michael and Melissa Bakewell Augusta Leigh: Byron's half-sister – a biography Chatto & Windus 2000 [12012] Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £8
194.(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
195.(LOVELACE) Benjamin Woolley The Bride of Science: romance, reason and Byron's daughter Macmillan 1999 [12000] Biography of Ada Lovelace £10
196.(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
197.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
198.(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
199.MEYERS, Jeffrey Katherine Mansfield: A Darker View Cooper Square Press 2002 [12393] Biography of Katherine Mansfield, first published in 1978 and reissued with a new introduction. Soft covers – ming £6
200.(MONTGOMERY) Catherine Andronik Kindred Spirit: a biography of L.M. Montgomery, creator of Anne of Green Gables Athenaeum 1993 [12441] Very good- in fine d/w £8
201.(MONTGOMERY) Mary Rubio and Elizbeth Waterston (eds) The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: vol 1 1889-1910 OUP 1985 [12426] Fine in very good d/w -424pp – heavy £15
202.(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
203.[MORGAN] Sydney Lady Morgan Passage From My Autobiography Richard Bentley 1859 [13675] 'The following pages are the simple records of a transition existence, socially enjoyed, and pelasantly and profitably occupied, during a journey of a few months from Ireland to Italy.' Good – in original decorative mauve cloth £18
204.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
205.(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
206.(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
207.(ORIGO) Caroline Moorehead Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d'Orcia John Murray 2000 [12007] Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £6
208.(OSBORN) Emily Osborn (ed) Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the Eighteenth Century: 1721-1771 Griffith Farren, Okeden and Welsh (London) 1890 [12054] Living in London and Chicksands (Bedfordshire), she managed her son's involved estate. Her letters reveal to us 18th-century life – political, social and domestic. Very good internally -paper on spine and corners a little rubbed – gift inscription, 1895, to 'Lady Strathmore' – the present Queen's great-grandmither £45
209.PARRY, Melanie (ed) Chambers Biographical Dictionary of Women Chambers 1996 [12421] Soft covers – fine – 741pp – heavy £10
210.(PASTON) Helen Castor Blood and Roses Faber 2004 [11981] A family biography tracing the Pastons' story across three generations. Mint in mint d/w £8
211.PHILLIPS, John, QUENNELL, Peter and SAGE, Lorna (contributors) The Last Edwardians: an illustrated history of Violet Trefusis and Alice Keppel Boston Athenaeum 1985 [12424] Selections from an exhibition held in 1985-6 in the USA. Packed with illustrations. Card covers – large format – some pages have come loose from the (im)perfect binding – but all present. £8
212.(PLATH/HUGHES) Diane Middlebrook Her Husband: Hughes and Plath: a marriage Little,Brown 2004 [12020] Fine in fine d/w £8
213.(RHYS) Francis Wyndham And Diana Melly (eds) Jean Rhys Letters 1931-1966 Deutsch 1984 [9507] Very good in d/w £12
214.(RIDING) Deborah Baker In Extremis; the life of Laura Riding Hamish Hamilton 1993 [11989] Fine in very good d/w £7
215.(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
216.(ROBINSON) Paula Byrne Perdita; the life of Mary Robinson HarperCollins 2004 [12017] Hardcover – fine in fine d/w £5
217. [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
218.(SARTON) Margot Peters May Sarton: a biography Ballantine 1998 [12001] Soft covers – fine £10
219.(SEWELL) Mrs Bayly The Life and Letters of Mrs Sewell James Nisbet, 3rd ed 1889 [2667] Memoir of the Quaker writer of moral didactics for children; she was mother of Anna Sewell. Good £12
220.SICHERMAN, Barbara et al (eds) Notable American Women: The Modern Period Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1980 [12418] Soft covers – 773pp – heavy – very good £12
221.(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
222.(ST TERESA OF AVILA) St Teresa of Avila by Herself Penguin Classics 1957 (r/p) [11950] Soft covers – fine £6
223.(STOREY) Joyce Storey Our Joyce Broadsides 1987 [10389] Life in pre-Second World War Bristol. Soft covers – very good £4
224.(STOREY) STOREY, Joyce Joyce's War 1939-1945 Virago 1992 (r/p) [13482] Soft covers -very good £4
225.(STOWE) Joan Hedrick Harriet Beecher Stowe OUP 1994 [11991] Soft covers – fine £9
226.(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
227.(SWAN) Mildred Robertson Nicoll The Letters of Annie S. Swan Hodder & Stoughton 1946 (r/p) [9668] Good reading copy. £10
228.(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
229.(TREFUSIS) Philippe Jullian and John Phillips Violet Trefusis: life and letters Hamish Hamilton 1976 [12443] Fine in fine d/w £8
230.(TUDOR) Maria Perry Sisters to the King deutsch 2002 [12024] Lives of the sisters of Henry VIII – Queen Margaret of Scotland and Queen Mary of France. Soft covers – fine £4
231.(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
232.(WARD) John Sutherland Mrs Humphry Ward: eminent Victorian, pre-eminent Edwardian OUP 1990 [12008] Fine in very good d/w £8
233.(WATERSTON) Lucy Bean And Elizabeth Van Heyningen (eds) The Letters of Jane Elizabeth Waterston 1866-1905 Van Riebeeck Society (Cape Town) 1983 [13266] A Scotswoman, she went as a missionary to Africa – to the Cape – returning to Britain in 1874 to train as a doctor – first, for a short time, with Sophia Jex-Blake in Edinburgh and then as one of the first students at the London School of Medicine, qualifying in 1879. She then returned to Africa, eventually settling in Cape Town, where, during his period there as editor of the Cape Times , one of her closest friends, although v much younger than her, was Edmund Garrett, cousin to Millicent Garrett Fawcett, on whose commission to investigate concentration camps during the Boer War, Jane Waterston served. Fine £25
234.(WEST) Carl Rollyson Rebecca West; a saga of the century Hodder & Stoughton 1995 [11993] Hardcovers – fine in fine d/w £7
General Ephemera
235.The Australian Army at War; an official record of service in two hemispheres 1939-1944 HMSO 1944 [12221] Soft covers -72pp – with photographs £2
236.Mother India's Daughters: the significance of the Women's Movement Women's International League no date [1934] [13073] 'The Women's Movement in India is growing with a rapidity and vigour which is probably without parallel..it is essential that British men and women should be prepared to give it their understanding, sympathy and support. 8-pp pamphlet – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
237.National Women Citizens' Association 1918-1968 NWCA 1968 [12278] Paper covers – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
238.Registration Requirements for 1929 Register HMSO 1928 [12222] Schedules setting out the requirements for registering on the first electoral register under the 1928 Representation of the People Act. 10-pp pamphlet – good – ex-Women's Library £2
239.ACT NO XIX OF 1929 (Passed by the Indian Legislature) An Act To Restrain the Solemnisation of Child Marriages [13472] Received the Assent of the Governor General, 1 Oct 1929. 4pp – good £3
240.AN ACT TO CONSOLIDATE AND AMEND THE STATUTE LAW OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND RELATING TO OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON [6 AUGUST 1861] HMSO [12555] Withdrawn from the collection of the Association of Moral and Social Hygiene. The Act is marked 'see page 829' – and on that page the act is concerned with the 'Rape, Abduction, and Defilement of Women'. 24-pp – good £5
241.ANDERSON, Dame Adelaide The Employment of Children in Egyptian Industry International Labour Office 1930 [12266] Reprinted from the International Labour Review, Dec 1930. Paper covers – 32pp – good £4
242.ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE Collection of Annual Reports [12313] A collection of 13 of the Association's Annual Reports – 7th (1921/22)-15th (1929/30); 29th (1950)-33rd (1954). Packed with information – and names of members, Paper covers – all in good condition – 13 items – together £50
243.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
244.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
245.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
246.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
247.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
248.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
249.AUTOGRAPHS (2) [13058] A sheet of paper on which are fixed the cut-out signatures of Marie, Lady Willoughby de Broke, Maud Selborne (the Countess of Selborne), Florence E. Barrett, Henrietta Barnett, Margery Corbett Ashby, Dorothy Jewson, Mabel Dearmer and Hester Kempthorne (wife of a bishop) £45
250.AUTOGRAPHS – LEAGUE OF CHURCH MILITANT [13060] 4 sheets of paper to which are fixed 28 cut-out signatures of members of the League of Church Militant, the successor to the Church League for Women's Suffrage. The signatures include thos of Margaret Benn (Lady Stansgate), Hope Joseph (artist), Evelyn Morrison (a WSPU activist), Edith Picton-Turbervill and M.A.R. Tuker. Many of the signatures are identified by pencilled annotations. Together £35
251.AUTOGRAPHS – THE GUILDHOUSE [13061] The Guildhouse was an ecumenical place of worship and cultural centre founded in 1921 by Maude Royden. On 4 sheets of paper are fixed 25 cut-out signatures, including those of Maude Royden, Hudson Shaw, Daisy Dobson (Maude Royden's secretary), Zoe Procter (former WSPU activist), and Katherine Courtney (of the NUWSS). Together £45
252.BARTON, Dorothea Women's Minimum Wages 1921 [12269] reprinted from the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, July 1921. Paper covers -c 40pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £6
253.BESANT, Sir Walter 'From Thirteen to Seventeen': Continuation Evening Classes, Recreative and Practical James Clarke 1903 [12828] Inner Mission Pamphlet, No 7 – First issued in 1893. Good – 8pp – ex-Board of Education library £5
255.BOARD OF EDUCATION [12263] Third Report (July 1938) and Fourth Report (Oct 1938) of the Burnham Committee on Scales of Salaries for Teachers in Secondary Schools . Card covers – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. Together £4
256.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
257.BOARD OF EDUCATION Reorganisation of Public Elementary Schools in England and Wales 1937-38 HMSO 1939 [12540] 'Statistics for the area of each local education authority showing numer of departments on 31 march 1938 by type of department, number of pupils, aged under 11 and 11 and over respectively, in each type of department together with summaries, by type of area, for England and Wales'. Paper covers – 64pp – good £8
258.BRITISH, CONTINENTAL, AND GENERAL FEDERATION FOR THE ABOLITION OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF PROSTITUTION Fourth Annual Report British, Continental, and General Federation 1879 [12322] Covers the year 1878-79. Paper covers – good – a little creased and chipped £12
259.BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION Report of Committee on Industrial Health in Factories BMA 1941 [12334] 43-pp wartime report – paper covers – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
260.BRITTAIN, Vera (introduces) Prisoners' Circle: essays by ex-prisoners Prison Medical Reform Council 1943 [12280] Paper covers – 32pp – good £5
261.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
262.BYLES, Marie Domicile of Married Women The United Associations, Sydney 1930s?? [12538] 4-pp leaflet on the question of the domicile of married women in Australia. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £2
263.CAMPBELL, Dame Janet Infant Mortality Ministry of Health 1929 [12257] International Inquiry of the Health Organisation of the League of Nations, English Section. Paper covers – 118pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
264.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
265.CENSUS OF SCOTLAND 1911 VOL II Report of the Twelfth Decennial Census of Scotland HMSO [1913] [12385] Missing front blue paper cover and some pages at end that cover talbels XLVI-LI – but 562pp are present and correct. Withdrawn from the Women's Library £15
266.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
267.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
268.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
269.CHURCH OF ENGLAND MORAL WELFARE COUNCIL The Threshold of Marriage: a practical guide for all who intend to be married in church The Church Assembly 1949 [12548] Paper covers – 36pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
270.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
271.COMMISSION OF ENQUIRY INTO INDUSTRIAL UNREST: Report of the Commission for Wales HMSO 1917 [13215] 50pp – good reading copy – bound into later card covers – ex-Board of Education Library £12
272.COMMITTEE ON THE NEGLECT OF SCIENCE Harrison and Son 1917 [12816] The committee was set up in Mary 1916, including among its members Sir Ray Lankester, Sir Hugh Bell and Lord Rayleigh, and was appointed by the Government to investigate scientific education in Secondary Schools. Clearly at a time of war it was considered very important to improve the country's engagement with science. Two items: 1) Report for the Year 1916-17, dated July 1917, 16pp; 2) The Scheme for Examination for Class 1 of the Civil Service recommending that 'a course of Science extending over several years shall have formed a serious part of every candidate's previous education.' , Nov 1917, 7pp. In good condition – ex-Board of Education library – together £10
273.CONTINUATION SCHOOLS [12811] A collection of material relating to 'Continuation Schools' (evening classes). 1) Evidence given by Rev J.B. Paton, D.D. before the Education Commission, Wm Isbister Ltd, 1887, 16pp; 2) The Continuation of Elementary Education: a paper by William Lant Carpenter read at the Society of Arts, Feb 8th 1888, pub by the Recrative Evening Schools' Association, 24pp; 3) Continuation Evening Classes; recreative and practical by Walter Besant, pub by the Recreative Evening Schools' Association, 1886, paper covers, 8pp; 4) Continuation Schools: recreative and practical by J. Edward Flower, pub by the Recreative Evening Schools' Association, 1894, 8pp; 5) Continuation Schools by Charles Henry Watt, pub for the Manchester Statistical Society, 1896, 24pp; 7) Recreative Instruction of Young People by the Rev Dr J.B. Paton, a paper read at a conference of the National Vigilance Association, pub by James Clarke, [first pub 1886, this issue probably 1902]; 8pp; 8) A Plea for Recreative Continuation Schools: evening schools under healthy conditions by the Rev J.B. Paton,, 4th ed (first pub 1885), 12pp; 9) Secondary Education for the Industrial Classes of England, a memorandum prepared by request of the Council of Recreative Evening Schools Association for the Royal Commission on Secondary Education by J.B. Paton, MA, DD, pub by the Recreative Evening Schools Association, 1904 (first issued 1895); 10 The Continuation Schools' Bill Explained and Commended by the Rev J.B. Paton, Inner Mission Pamphlet, Second Series, no 6, 1905, 12pp; 11) Continuation Schools from a Higher Point of View by J.B. Paton, DD, Inner Mission Pamphlet, Second Series, no 7, 1905, 16pp; 12) report on an Enquiry into the Working of Evening Schools in the County of Cheshire, 1907, 12pp – with detailed pull-out tables; 13) The Problem of the Continuation School and its successful solution in Germany. A Consecutive Policy by R.H. Best and C.K. Ogden, pub by P.S. King, 1914, paper covers ( more or less detached), 80pp; 14) Port Sunlight Works Continuation School; An Address given to the Soap and Candle Trades at Birmingham on 16 March 1920 by J. Knox, MA, printed at the request of the Joint Industrial Council, 1920, paper covers, 22pp; 15) Day Continuation Schools, pub by Federal Council of Lancashire and Cheshire Teachers' Associations, Sept 1943, 4pp. All in good condition – all paper covers – all ex-Board of Education library. As a collection – together £45
274.CRIMINAL JUSTICE ACT HMSO [12557] 1) Criminal Justice Adminstration Act, 1914 – 'An Act to diminish the number of cases committed to prison, to amend the Law with respect to the treatment and punishment of young offenders, and otherwise to improve the administration of criminal justice'.- 36pp – good; 2) Criminal Justice Act, 1925 – 'An Act to amend the law with respect to the administration of criminal justice in England, and otherwise to amend the criminal law' – 44pp – good; 3) Criminal Justice Act, 1948 – 'An Act to abolish penal servitude, hard labour, prison divisions and sentence of whipping 'etc – 110pp – good. Together £5
275.DAME IRENE WARD (1895-1980) [12477] Collecction of letters and cards from Irene Ward (Conservative MP for, first, in 1931, Wallsend and then, 1950, Tyneside) to a friend, Cynthia Josephine Romilly (after her marriage in 1964, Romilly-Luscombe) (1914-2001) – together with a colleciton of cuttings about Irene Ward that her correspondent pasted onto album sheets – together with a quantity of loose cuttings – following the MP's career – from the early 1940s. The correspondence continues into the late 1970s. Good – as a collection. £65
276.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
277.DINNER AND PRESENTATION TO MISS ALISON NEILANS [12351] 4-pp leaflet, reprinted from 'The Shield', Dec 1938, describing the 'Silver Jubilee dinner held at St Ermin's Hotel, Westminster, to celebrate Miss Neilans' 25 years work with the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene'. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
278.DISINHERITANCE The Remedies of Lord Astor's Bill [12561] an article reprinted from 'The Observer', Sept 6, 1928. 'Lord Astor introduced a Bill in the House of Lords last session to modify, to a limited extent, the right of arbitrary disinheritance possessed by spouses and parents in England and Wales and occasionally exercised.' Double-sided sheet – good £1
279.EASTMAN, Linda The Child, the School, and the Library reprinted from the Library Journal 1896 [12783] She was employed by the Public Library, Dayton, Ohio and the address was given at the first annual meeting of the Ohio Library Association, Cleveland. Small, 22-pp pamphlet – ex-Board of Education library – good £5
280.EQUAL PAY CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE AND STATUS OF WOMEN COMMITTEE Equal Pay: a reply to the chancellor of the Exchequer 1947 [12273] Double-sided leaflet – creased and nicked £1
281.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
282.FEDERAL COUNCIL OF LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION Day Continuation Schools Sept 1943 [13023] with copy attached of a letter from the Federal Council welcoming the 1944 Education Act. Good – ex-Board of Education library £2
283.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
284.FEMINIST ARTS NEWS Vol 3 no 3 1990 [13114] This issue is titled 'Politics of Location/Culture of Dislocation: Irish Women – Britain. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
285. FEMINIST ARTS NEWS Vol 3 No 4 1990 [13117] This issue is titled 'Women, Modernism, Modernity'. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
286.FEMINIST ARTS NEWS Vol 3 No 1 1990 [13115] This issue is titled 'Tourism and Cultural Imperialism'. Good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
287.FRIENDS' CENTRAL EDUCATION COMMITTEE Inspection of Friends' Boarding Schools by the Board of Education: General Report 1905 [13331] J.W. Headlam was Director of the Enquiry and the author of the Report. Soft covers – 50pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £12
288.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
289.GOULD, Frederick J. Why Educate? [12860] A lecture given under the auspices of the National Union of Women Teachers, in connection with the Annual Educational Week-end in Chesterfield, September 24, 1926. Paper covers – good – 15pp. Together with a 2-sided leaflet on Educational Reform pub by the Rationalist Association. Both in goodish condition – ex-Board of Education library £4
290.HARRIS, E.M. Married Women in Industry Institute of Personnel Management 1954 [12293] Paper covers – 30pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
291.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
292.HILL, Charles H. E. Memorandum on the National Service Acts, 1939-41 and other emergency legislation prepared for the War Resisters' International War Resisters' International 1942 [12367] 16-pp pamphlet – withdrawn from the Women's Library £4
293.HILLS, John W. and WOODS, Maurice Poor Law Reform: a practical programme West Strand Publishing Co 1912 [12831] 'The scheme of the Unionist Social Reform Committee' – with an introduction by F.E. Smith, KC, MP. Soft covers present – but front cover detached – otherwise good – 63pp – ex- Board of Education library £5
294.HMSO Factories (No 2) Bill HMSO 1926 [12300] Concerned with working conditions. 102pp – lacking paper covers – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
295.HMSO Third Report from the Select Committee on National Expenditure: Health and Welfare of Women in War Factories HMSO 1942 [12219] 24-pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £8
296.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
297.HORTICULTURAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION The H.E.A Year Book vol 1 1932 [12862] Card covers present but detached – 92pp – plus many pages of advertisements. Good – ex-Board of Education library £5
298.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
299.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
300.ILLEGITIMATE CHILDREN (SCOTLAND) ACT, 1930 HMSO 1930 [12565] 'An Act to amend the alw as to the duration and recovery of aliment for, and the custody of, illegitimate children in Scotland, and for other purposes connected therewith.' 4-pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £1
301.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
302.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
303.INTER-ALLIED INFORMATION COMMITTEE Women Under Axis Rule HMSO [1943] [13694] No 7 in the 'Conditions in Occupied Territories' Reports. good – withdrawn from the Women's Library. £10
304.[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
305.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
306.JOSEPHINE BUTLER SOCIETY NEWSLETTER [12346] issues for 1973, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1985, 1989, 1990, 1992, 2006 . 11 items – paper covers – in good condition Together £6
307.KLEIN, Viola Employing Married Women Institute of Personnel Management 1961 [12291] Paper covers – 52pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
308.LEAGUE OF NATIONS HMSO [12558] International Labour Conference: 1) Draft Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the Conference at its 12th session, 30 May-21 June 1929. 34pp; 2) Draft Conventions and Recommendations adopted by the conference at its 16th Session 12 April-30 April 1932. 34pp; 3) Draft Conventions and Recommendation adopted by the Conference at its 18th Session 4 June-23 June 1934. 30pp. All good – together £4
309.LEAGUE OF NATIONS [12559] Council for the Representation of Women in the League of Nations, Annual Report 1926-7. Millicent Fawcett was present at the Annual Meeting of the Council, of which Mrs Ogilvie Gordon was President, in Nov 1927. 4-pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library £1
310.LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD Supplement in continuation of the Report of the Medical Officer of the Board for 1914-15 Containing a Report on Maternal Mortality in connection with childbearing and its relation to Infant Mortality. HMSO 1915 [12256] The 44th Annual Report of the Local Government Board, 1914-15. Complete, but missing its paper covers – otherwise good – 140pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
311.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
312.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
313.MACCARTHY, Fiona Work for Married Women Conservative Political Centre 1966 [12297] Paper covers – 18pp – good- withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
314.MANNING, E. A. Moral Teaching in Schools: a paper read at the Social Science Congress, Brighton Edward Stanford Oct 1875 [13208] Elizabeth Adelaide Manning was, among other things, for many years hon sec of the National Indian Association. Paper covers – 16pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £12
315.MARTINDALE, Hilda Autograph letter [13473] to 'Mr Lively' (I think that is the name) who had been very encouraging about her book. The date is 27 July 1939 so the book must have been 'Women Servants of the State'. She is sending him a copy of the book and remarks 'The reviews have been good but the sales bad!). I sheet £5
316.MELLORS, Robert Evening School in the Villages of Nottinghamshire 1910 [13024] 'An appeal to the ladies and gentlemen of every class in the county to aid in the formation and management of evening schools adapted to local industrial conditions.' Mr Mellors was an alderman on Nottinghamshire County Council. 20-pp pamphlet – good – ex-Board of Education library £4
317.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
318.MINUTE OF THE FRIENDS' ABOLITIONIST ASSOCIATION ON THE DECEASE OF JOSEPHINE BUTLER [12347] 4-pp leaflet marking the death of Josephine Butler – containing a facsmile of her last message, dated 30 May 1906, to the Friends' Association. Good condition – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
319.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
320.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
321.NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE The National Health Service (Service Committees and Tribunal) Regulations 1948 HMSO 1948 [12551] 30-pp – good – withdrawn from the collection of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene – good – with some marginal pencilled emphases. £1
322.NATIONAL UNION OF FAMILY ASSOCIATIONS World Congress for Family and Population 1947 [12532] The Congress was held in Paris in June 1947. Paper covers – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
323.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
324.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
325.NORWEGIAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL POLICY The Status of Women in Norway Today 1953 [13173] Paper covers -67 pp – with photographs – with drawn from the Women's Library £3
326.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
327.POST OFFICE HMSO [12541] 1) Decision of Industrial Court July 1927: Manipulative Grades – Post Office. In the course of the claims and counter claims sets out all the grades and pay of Post Office workers. Paper covers, 212pp ; 2) Report of the Committee on the Inland Telegraph Service 1927, pub 1928. Paper covers – 28pp. Two items – good – together £3
328.PRIMROSE LEAGUE Dance Card [12476] for a Primrose League Dance organised by the North Kensington (Hamilton Habitation on 23 January 1908 at the Ladbroke Hall. Green's Imperial Orchestra provided the music and on the reverse of the card is a list of the dances – beginning with a Polka and ending with a Sir Roger de Coverley. Thick card – all edges gilt – with a punch hole at one corner (through which a silken twist would once have been threaded – either to loop around the wrist – or, perhaps, attached to a pencil). This card has not been completed with the names of the lucky partners. Very good – unusual £15
329.PROBATION OF OFFENDERS ACT 1907 HMSO 1907 [12554] Paper covers – 8-pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £1
330.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
331.Catholic Confirmation at Ugbrook [12570] 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..' The chapel at Ugbrook is the oldest Catholic parish church in south-west England. Card wrappers – very good £10
332.REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS On the Age of Marriages Bill HMSO 1929 [12381] Paper covers – 14pp – fair – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
333.REPORT OF A DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE PREVALENCE OF VENEREAL DISEASE AMONG THE BRITISH TROOPS IN INDIA HMSO 1897 [12353] 33-pp foolscap Report – together with – 'A Rough Record 1858-1935 on the work of the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene, in connection with the British Army in India' – 8-pp foolscap report. In good condition – withdrawn from the Women's Library. Together £12
334.REPORT OF THE STREET OFFENCES COMMITTEE HMSO 1928 [12372] The Committee included Margery Fry. Good – 50pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
335.RICH, Adena Women Under Our Immigration and Naturalization Laws 1949 [12382] The post-war US position. Reprinted from 'The Social Science Review' – self covers – fair – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
336.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
337.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
338.ROYDEN, A. Maude The Hour and the Church Allen & Unwin 1918 [12232] Soft covers – very good – withdrawn from the Women's library £10
339.SADLER, M.E. How Far Can We Learn Anything of Practical Value from the Study of Foreign Systems of Education? Surrey Advertiser Office (Guildford) [1900] [12822] Printed at the behest of the Educational Conference of Managers and Teachers in the Guildford District. Good – in original paper wrappers – 19pp – ex-Board of Education library £5
340.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
341.SHARPE, J.A. Plebian Marriage in Stuart England: some evidence from popular literature [12571] reprinted from the Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 1986. Card wrappers – 22pp. With some pencilled marginal annotations. £3
342.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
343.SOCIAL SERVICE IN LONDON P.S. King Sept 1920 [12785] 'A pamphlet containing: 1) A List of Bureaux of Service; 2) A List of the Chief Statutory and Voluntary Organisations Neeting the Help of Volunteers; 3) A List of Training Courses whre those Inexperienced in Social Work may receive the Necessary Training; 4) A List of Men's and Women's Settlements in London.' 36-pp pamphlet, internally good, paper covers present but detached – ex-Board of Education library £8
344.SUMMARY JURISDICTION (MARRIED WOMEN) ACT, 1895 HMSO [12563] An Act to amend the Law relating to the Summary Jurisdiction of Magistrates in reference to Married Women. Paper covers – 8pp – good. Together with ' Summary Jurisdiction (Separation and Mainenance) Bill to Amend the Married Women (Maintenance) Acts 1895 and 1920, and section 5 of the Licensing Act, 1905. Paper covers – 6pp – good. And An Act to amend the Law relating to Separation and Maintenance Orders, 1925 – paper covers – 4pp. All withdrawn from the Women's Library. Together £2
345.TEACHERS' GUILD Helps to Self-Help for Teachers by Assurance and Investment through the Teachers' Guild 1901 [13221] Paper covers – 28pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £8
346.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
347.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
348.THE ASSOCIATION FOR MORAL AND SOCIAL HYGIENE The Alison Neilans Memorial Lectures AMSH [12337] 2 of these annual lectures: 1) No 5 Mary Stocks, Josephine Butler and the Moral Standards of Today, 1961; 2) No 6 T.C.N. Gibbens, The Clients of Prostitutes, 1962. paper covers – in good condition, withdrawn from the Women's Library. Together £8
349.THE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1903 1903 [13045] Card covers – good – ex-Board of Education Library £10
350.THE ASSOCIATION OF HEAD MISTRESSES List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls 1905 1905 [13046] Card covers – good – ex-Board of Education library £10
351.THE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE TEACHERS' GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND A Catalogue of the Historical Section 1896 [13219] A list of the costumes, tables, charts, photographs, maps and lantern slides that were available for hire by teachers. Interesting. Paper covers – 20pp – fair – ex-Board of Education Library £8
352.THE EMPLOYMENT COMMITTEE OF THE INCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OF HEADMISTRESSES OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE MINISTRY OF LABOUR Annual Report for 1930 HMSO 1931 [12261] Paper covers – 14pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £3
353.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
354.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
355.THE IMPORTANCE OF TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT TO THE ADULT SCHOOL TEACHER 1904 [12829] A paper read at the National Adult School Council at Leeds, October 8th, 1904. Good – 12 pp – ex-Board of Education library £4
356.THE INDUSTRIAL COURT Decision of Industrial Court No 1325: Manipulative Grades – Post Office HMSO July 1927 [12379] The case was between the Union of Post Office Workers and the Post Office. In the course of the lengthy expositions, a vast amount of information is given on the working of the Post Office at the time – revealing in great detail the work done by women, which had been the first section of the Civil Service to employ women. Soft covers – 212pp -good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £8
357.THE LAUNDRY INDUSTRY EDUCATION BOARD Education, Training and Scholarships in the Laundry Industry Laundry Industry Education Board 1953 (revised) [13214] A vanished world of work. Paper covers – 16pp – good – ex-Board of Education Library £8
358.THE MILLGATE MONTHLY A Popular Magazine Devoted to Association, Education, Literature and General Advancement [13676] Vol II Jan 1907-Vol VII – Part II April 1912. Packed with articles to interest social historians and those interested in women's history. Articles on, for instance, Margaret McMillan, Margaret Heitland, Henrietta Barnett, school clinics, garden cities, a woman's lodging house etc. A fat, heavy bound volume containing over 4 years' worth of issues – with lots of photographs. Very £18
360.THE SHIELD [12339] 'The Official Organ of the British Committee of the International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice' – 5 issues. 1) August 1911; 2) Feb-March 1926; 3) May 1940; 4) Oct 1961; 5) Nov 1970 (Centenary Number) All paper covers – good condition – withdrawn from the Women's Library. – together £12
361.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
362.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
363.THE VIGILANCE RECORD [12336] 'The Organ of the National Vigilance Association', 3 issues: 1) 15 January 1888, ed Mrs Ormiston Chant 2) April 1926 3) April 1928. All withdrawn from the Women's Library – in good condition – nicked and creassed at edges. Together £10
364.TOWN POLICE CLAUSES ACT, 1889 An Act to amend the provisions relating to Hackney Carriages of the Town Police Clauses Act, 1847 HMSO 24 June 1889 [12547] Withdrawn from the Associaiton for Moral and Social Hygiene Collection, the Women's Library. 4-pp – good £2
365.UNIVERSITY TRAINING FOR WELFARE WORK IN INDUSTRY & COMMERCE A Report issued by the Joint University Council for Social Studies P.S. King 1921 [12546] 'The Joint University Council for Social Studies has for its object the co-ordination and development of the work of Social Study Departments in connection with the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. The Hon Sec of the Council was Elizabeth Macadam. Among the members of the committee was Rose Squire. Paper covers – 18pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's library £6
366.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
367.WELSH DEPARTMENT, BOARD OF EDUCATION Scheme for the Collection of Rural Lore in Wales: an educational experiment to be carried out through the medium of the schools and colleges Welsh Dept, Board of Education 1919 [13032] card covers – 24pp – good – ex-Board of Education library £4
368.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
369.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
370.WILLS AND INTESTACIES (FAMILY MAINTENANCE) BILL HMSO 1930 [12564] 'The object of this bill is to secure that, in the distribution of the estate of a testator or testatrix, a surviving husband or wife and any surviving children who are of an age necessitating parental support shall have
a statutory right to certain provision out of the estate in order to secure the funds necessary for their maintenance.' Paper covers – 14pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library – good £2
371.WILSON, Dr Helen Prostitution and the Law is prostitution a trade? Association for Moral and Social Hygiene [1926] [13469] reprinted from 'The Shield', March 1926. 8-pp pamphlet. Very good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £10
372.WOMAN AT HOME (Annie S. Swan's Magazine) Hodder & Stoughton 1894 [13692] Includes chapters from Annie Swan's 'Elizabeth Glen, M.B.; the experiences of a lady doctor', as well as the usual wide range of interviews, articles -including fashion, cookery and house furnishing, and stories. Good – hundreds of pages! £18
373.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
374.WOMEN SPEAKING Oct 1966 [12386] Includes a short article on the work of the Open Door International. Soft covers – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
375.WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT FEDERATION Careers: a memorandum on openings and trainings for girls and women 1964 [12281] The 21st ed. Soft covers – 146pp – very good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
376.WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT FEDERATION Memorandum on Openings and Trainings for Women WEF 1936 [12270] Paper covers – good -20pp £8
377.WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT FEDERATION Women Want to Work: some notes on prospects, training and finding work for the older woman with a good educational background WEF 1964 [12271] Paper covers – 44pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £4
378.WOMEN'S GROUP ON PUBLIC WELFARE Loneliness: an enquiry into causes and possible remedies National Council of Social Service revised ed 1964 [12552] An interesting snapshot of one aspect of the early 1960s. Soft covers – 72pp – good – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
379.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
380.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
381.WRIGHT, Helena Marriage Modern Churchman's Union no date (1920s?) [12265] No 8 in ' a series of ten booklets dealing with religious matters of current interest.' Good -20pp – withdrawn from the Women's Library £2
General Postcards
382.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
383.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
384.GEORGE LANSBURY, MP, LCC [13279] real photographic postcard published by the Church Socialist League, London branch, pre – First World War. Fine – unposted £25
386.KITCHEN AND HOUSEHOLD STAFF [13689] photographed in a large kitchen – difficult to know if it is that of a large house or of an institution – but I rather think a house. There are maids in overalls and aprons and kitchen staff standing in front of a long wooden table – with a mincer clamped to it – and an array of bowls and implements. All are women except for one man, earing a white jacket. Definitely Edwardian – an unusual photograph of 'downstairs'. Good – unposted £6
General Fiction
387.AITKEN, David Sleeping with Jane Austen No Exit Press 2000 [12417] Facetious crime novel. Soft covers – very good £4
388.BEHN, Aphra Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the second part of The Confession of the New Married Couple printed for the Navarre Society 1950 [12468] With an introduction by John Harvey. Good – corners a little bumped £10
389.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
390.BUCKLEY, W.K. Sylvia's Bells Small Poetry Press (California) 2007 (2nd ed) [12038] Poems. Soft covers – mint – signed by the author (although I daresay most copies are) £3
391.CLIFT, Charmian Walk to the Paradise Gardens Harper & Bros (NY) 1960 [12458] First US edition of this Australian novel. Very good in very good d/w, which is slightly chipped at top and bottom of spine £25
392.DOBSON, Joanne Death Without Tenure Poisoned Pen Press 2010 [12487] Political correctness in the English Department at New England's Enfield College results in a threat to Karen Pelletier's dream of tenure – and a death for our intrepid lecturer to investigate. A good read. Mint in d/w £12
393.DONOVAN, Anne Being Emily Canongate 2008 [11966] A 'coming-of-age' novel, set in Glasgow – with the spirit of Haworth lurking. Paperback Original – fine £5
394.FALCONER, Lanoe Mademoiselle Ixe T. Fisher Unwin 7th ed, 1924 [12648] In Cabinet Library series £5
395.FEINSTEIN, Elaine The Russian Jerusalem Carcanet 2008 [12394] A novel of Russia – both Putin's and Stalin's – with poems and pictures. Soft covers – mint £5
396.FERMI, Sarah Emily's Journal Pegasus 2006 [11965] Written as if in her own words 'Emily's Journal' explores in minute detail the possibilty that 'Wuthering Heights' was not entirely 'invented'. Interrogates census records, parish registers, and wills – and marries the evidence with the contents of her works. Soft covers – fine £5
397.FRANCK, Julia The Blind Side of the Heart Harvill 2009 [12404] Translated from the German by Anthea Bell. Portrayal of a family through two world wars. Fine in fine d/w £5
398.FREED, Lynn The Servants' Quarters Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2009 [11975] 'A witty, original take on 'Beauty and the Beast' featuring a fiercely intrepid young Jewish girl plagued by fears of the Holocaust, a wealthy, cultured aristocrat horribly disfigured in World War II and a mother whose ambitions know no bounds.' Fine in fine d/w £7
399.GALGOCZI, Erzsébet Another Love Cleis Press 1980 [13461] 'In 1959, In Budapest, a communist opposing the Soviets is an outlaw, a lesbian unthinkable, and Eva Szalánczky's got the police on her back…'Soft covers – very good £2
400.GASKELL, Elizabeth Cranford OUP 2011 [13428] With introduction by Dinah Birch. Soft covers – mint £4
401.HUGHES, Ted Wolfwatching Faber 1989 [12032] Soft covers – very good £4
402.JOHNSON, Sue The Broken Book Allen & Unwin (Australia) 2004 [12454] A novel inspired by the life of the Australian writer, Charmian Clift. Soft covers – mint £6
403.KANE, Sarah Complete Plays Methuen Drama 2001 [12029] Introduced by David Greig. Comprises 'Blasted', 'Phaedra's love', 'Clansed', Crave', '4.48 Psychosis', 'Skin'. Soft covers – fine £10
404.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
405.MULFORD, Wendy (ed) The Virago Book of Love Poetry Virago 1990 [12039] Soft covers – fine £5
406.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
407.RATCLIFFE, Dorothy Una Nightlights Bodley Head 1929 [13459] Illustrated by Cecile Walton. Poems for 'nursery people' – reminiscent of 'The Child's Garden of Verses'. Good – decorated blue cloth cover a little faded – internally very good £5
408.SHERWOOD, Mrs The Happy Family Houlston & Sons, new edition no date [3607] A little tract – paper covers. Fine £5
409.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
410.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
411.VON ARNIM, Elizabeth The Enchanted April Virago 1986 [13493] Soft covers – fine £5
412.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'. A scarce book £48
413.ANTHONY Jr, Charles The Social and Political Dependence of Women Longmans, Green, and Co 1880 (6th ed) [12058] This was one of the earliest books published in support of J.S. Mill's proposed amendment to the 1867 Reform Bill – to give qualified women the vote. Interestingly he begins his tract with an analysis of the way in which ridicule was used to dismiss the idea of the enfranchised woman. Charles Anthony was the editor of the 'Hereford Times'. Helen Blackburn lists the book in her Bibliography for 'The Record of Women's Suffrage' . Very good internally in original decorated cloth, slight rubbing to head and tail of spine – unusual £65
414.ATKINSON, Diane Funny Girls: cartooning for equality Penguin 1997 [12164] Soft covers – very good £5
415.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
416.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
417.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
418.DOVE, Iris Yours in the Cause: suffragettes in Lewisham, Greenwich andWoolwich Lewisham Library Services and Greenwich Library Services 1988 [13110] 22-pp in card covers. Withdrawn from the Women's Library. Scarce £25
419.KENT, Susan Sex and Suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914 Princeton University Press 1987 [1361] Fine in d/w (which has one slight nick) £20
420.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
421.LEWIS, Jane Before the Vote was Won: arguments for and against women's suffrage 1864-1896 Routledge (Women's Source Library) 1987 [12099] A very useful collection of texts. Fine in d/w £28
422.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
423.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
424.MORGAN, David Suffragists and Liberals: the politics of woman suffrage in Britain Basil Blackwell 1975 [12133] Fine in d/w £15
425.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
426.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
427.RUBINSTEIN, David Before the Suffragettes: women's emancipation in the 1890s Harvester 1986 [13158] Soft covers – very good £15
428.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
429.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
Suffrage Biography
430.(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
431.(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
432.(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
Suffrage Fiction
433.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
434.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
435.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
436.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
437.QUINN, Anthony Half the Human Race Cape 2011 [12485] 'London. In the sweltering summer of 1911, the streets ring to the cheers of the new king's coronation, and to the cries of suffragist women marching for the vote. One of them is the 21-year-old daughter of a middle-class Islington family fallen on hard times…Forced to abandon her dream of a medical career she is now faced with another hard choice – to maintain lawful protest against an intransigient government or to join the glass-breaking militants in the greatest cause…' I was, I must admit, surprised to find it engaging and intelligent – rather more convincing than many of the early 20th-century suffragist novels. And there's a man and cricket in there as well. A good read. Mint in mint d/w – signed by the author £12
438.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
440.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
Suffrage Ephemera
441.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
442.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
443.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
444.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
445.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
446.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
447.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
448.HMSO Representation of the People Bill HMSO 1917 [13074] 'A Bill to Amend the Law with respect to Parliamentary and Local Government Franchises..etc'. Clause 4 allowed the vote to women over the age of 30. 42 pages – a good reading copy – missing its paper covers £15
449.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
450.KELLEY, Florence Persuasion or Responsibility? National American Woman Suffrage Association c 1905? [13076] Vol 2, No 8 in 'Political Equality Series'. Small format – 4pp – good – with shelfmark – withdrawn from the Women's Library £5
451.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
453.LONDON AND NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SERVICE Report, October 1st 1938 to March 31st 1943 [13447] A Report giving details of how Women's Service House fared during the early years of the war (bombed) and where the Library was accommodated (Oxford) – together with details of the Society's perilous financial postition. Good £25
454.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
455.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
456.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
457.(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
458.MARSHALL, Catherine Women's Suffrage Election Campaign in Cumberland [13678] 'Reprint of letter sent to the Local Press Jan 5th 1910'. Catherine Marshall was the very active NUWSS local secretary in Cumberland, here describing the efforts that suffragists were making during the first general election of 1910. Single-sided leaflet – the bottom section of the form, which readers were requested to return to the society indicating the active help they could give, is present, but has separated along its perforation. £15
459.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
460.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
461.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
462.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
463.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
464.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
465.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
466.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
467.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
468.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
469.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
470.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
471.PETERSEN, H. Frances The Belief in Innate Rights NUWSS no date [1913] [13100] 12-pp pamphlet printed for the NUWSS by the Women's Printing Society – reprinted from the 'Law Magazine and Review'. Good in original paper covers £12
472.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
473.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
474.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
475.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
476.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
477.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
478.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
479.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
480.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
481.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
482.SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE [12661] is the caption to this full page George Belcher cartoon, published in the Tatler on 12 August 1908. Two impoverished old women are talking in the street – a unconsciously joky exchange – which is the amusing part for the audience of the day (I won't go into the rather laboured humour which, if it has any suffrage relevance, is only to mock woman's supposed illogicality)- but what is interesting to us is that one of the old dears is standing holding an advertising bill for the magazine, 'New Age', on which the roughly sketched in legend reads something like 'A Suffragette's reply to Belfort Bax.'. For the book that sparked off the debate in New Age see item ? Bax had published an article 'Feminism and Female Suffrage' in the issue for 30 May, to which Millicent Murby had written a reply that appeared in the issue of 6 June, to which Bax had made a riposte in the issue of 8 August. Single page – very good £15
483.SPALDING, Frances (ed) The Charleston Magazine: Charleston, Bloomsbury and the Arts Charleston Trust issue 19, Spring/Summer 1999 [12652] Includes an article 'A Rich Network of Associations: Bloomsbury and Women's Suffrage', written by me (seems a very long time ago). Also an article on Frank Rutter that touches on his suffrage sympathies – and other interesting articles. A much lamented magazine. Fine – card covers £12
484.ST JOAN'S SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ALLIANCE [13681] badge for the society formerly known as the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society which was founded in 1911 and in 1923 changed it's name to the St Joan Social and Political Alliance. The badge, which dates from between 1923 and 1950 is printed with a gold and white fleur-de-lys motif in the centre, blue ground, gold, white and blue border with printed inscription: 'St Joan's Social & Political Alliance'. It is made of paper covered with plastic, over metal base. In good condition £35
485.STOPES, Mrs C.C. The Constitutional Basis of Women's Suffrage Darien Press (Edinburgh) 1908 [13684] reprinted from the 'fortnightly Review', Sept 1908. 16-pp pamphlet. An ownership inscription on the top right of the front cover appears to be 'E. C. Haig' – and I am wondering whether the pamphlet was originally owned by Evelyn Cotton Haig (1863-1954), sister of Florence and Cecilia Haig – all strong supporters of the WSPU. Evelyn Haig lived with her sisters in Comely Bank Ave in Edinburgh – and may well have known Mrs Stopes. An Edinburgh ownership certainly ties in with the Edinburgh publication. Very good £45
486.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
487.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
488.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
489.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
490. 'THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN' [13690] supplement to 'The Graphic', 1885, heralding the supplements to be issued in Nov and Dec 1885 on 'Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days'. As its advertisement for the series The Graphic has chosen to use George Cruickshank's "The Rights of Women; or a view of the hustings with female suffrage, 1853.' We see on the hustings the two candidates – 'The Ladies' Candidate'- Mr Darling' and 'The Gentleman's Candidate – Mr Screwdriver – the great political economist'. Elegant Mr Darling is surrounded by ladies in bonnets and crinolines – Mr Screwdriver by ill-tempered-looking boors. The audience contains many women accompanied, presumably, by their husbands who are holding aloft a 'Husband and Wife Voters' banner. Another banner proclaims the existence of 'Sweetheart Voters' and riding in their midst is a knight in armour holding a 'Vote for the Ladies' Champion' pennant. There do not appear to be many supporters of the opposition. Single sheet 28 cm x 20.5 cm – a little foxed around the edges of the paper but barely afffecting the good, clear image of Crucikshank's cartoon. £160
491.THE SUFFRAGETTE [13691] US Suffragette – wearing sash that proclaims this (ie 'Suffragette'), holding aloft a 'Suffragette' pennant with one hand while she firmly squashes with the other a little Cupid, whose bow and arrow fly out of his hands. Under her foot is, I think, her heart. The caption is 'You may think it fun, poor Cupid to snub,/With the hand of a Suffragette,/But he's cunning and smart, aye, there's the rub/Revenge is the trap he will set.' The print is in colour – the Suffragette's dress dates from c 1913/14, I think. The sheet (18cm x 27 cm) is printed 'Made in U.S.A.). In good condition – an item that would look attractive mounted and framed. £150
493.'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 £350
494.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
495.VOTES FOR WOMEN, 26 July 1912 [13188] An incomplete copy – pp 693-698 (inc) and 703-708 (inc) – but gives a flavour £30
496.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 Harccourt's house. Fair condition £30
497.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
498.VOTES FOR WOMEN, 27 September 1912 [13496] Complete issue. Chipped and rubbed and with some – interesting – annotations £60
499.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
500.'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 here). 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
501.WOMEN'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIETY Local Government Elections in England and Wales: Qualifications for Candidates WLGS May 1918 [12170] 1-page leaflet – very good condition £10
502.WOMEN'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIETY A New Franchise WLGS Feb 1918 [12169] 1-page, double-sided, leaflet, written by Margaret Kilgour, setting out the qualifications for voting in local government elections under the new 'Representation of the People' Act 1918. Good – with two punch holes in the wide margin and slight tear inward from the left-hand margin, with no loss of text £8
503.WOMEN'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIETY The Parish Meeting and Parish Council LGS 1919 [13154] 4-pp leaflet explaining the scope and powers of the parish council. It was issued in January 1919, under the name of (Miss) C.G. K. Scovell who adds 'The country looks to its women voters to arouse interest in local affairs, and to take their share of the steady and unobtrusive work that has to be done by Parish Councils.' Miss Scovell lived in Sussex – and this leaflet was printed in Hove. Good £48
504.WOMEN'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIETY Registration in England and Wales: Women Occupiers and their Votes WLGS July 1905 [12171] 1-page, double sided, leaflet setting out the position after the Eduation Act of 1902 had abolished School Boards, by which women rate payers were no longer automatically qualified to vote and it was necessary for women occupiers to be registered. The 1902 Act was another in a series of acts that actively disenfranchised women of local government rights that they had gained in the 3rd quarter of the 19th century – and was one of the causes of the impetus given to the suffrage campaign at the beginning of the 20th. This leaflet, which is withdrawn from the Women's Library, has an ink emendation to the final paragraph, noting that the fact that a woman could not be a candidate for county, borough or metropolitan borough councils had been remedied by the passing of the 1907 Qualification of Women Act. Fair condition, edges rubbed and nicked £12
505.WOMEN'S LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIETY The Work of a Public Health Committee WLGS Oct 1918 [12177] 4-pp leaflet, written by S.M. Smee, chairman of the Public Health Committee, 1912-14 and 1916-18. Good condition – with two punch hole in margin, with no loss of text £5
506.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
Ephemera from Kate Frye's Collection
508.FREE CHURCH LEAGUE FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE Flyer (Preliminary Notice) for a Spring Fair [13393] to be held at Rectory Road Hall, Stoke Newington on 17 and 18 April 1913 (see 'Campaigning for the Vote' p 149). With a handwritten addition to the effect that 'Countess Brassey opens first day' and ….'Mrs Sadd Brown'. Good – has been folded (by Kate Frye – presumably carried with her to the Fair) and with short tag on reverse where she then fixed into her diary £120
509.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
510.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
511.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
512.New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage Flyer for meeting at Hythe on 1 Nov 1911 [13370] See 'Campaigning for the Vote' p 75. With Mr Baillie-Weaver's name inserted as a speaker in Kate Fyre's hand. With short tag on reverse where the flyer was fixed in Kate's diary £150
513.New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage Flyer for meeting at Market Hill, Halstead, 27 July 1911 [13368] See 'Campaigning for the Vote' p 61. With short tag on reverse where it has been fixed in Kate's diary £150
514.New Constitutional Society for Women's Suffrage Flyer for NCS meeting 22 March 1911 at East Dereham [13363] See 'Campaigning for the Vote' p 38 £150
515.NORTH KENSINGTON WOMEN'S LIBERAL ASSOCIATION Seventh Annual Report 1897-98 [12529] Includes names and addresses of the Association's members. A drawing-room meeting was held on 29 April 1898 at which an address was to be given 'on 'Women's Sufrage' and especially on the question whether women should work for Liberal Parliamentary candidates who were opposed to their franchise. As the attendance was very small the address was not given.' However at a Special Meeting held a couple of weeks later 'after a long discussion, a resolution was passed in favour of not working for such candidates. The Committee regret that the attendance was small, an intimation that the important question of Women's Suffrage does not take that foremost place in the thoughts of the Association that it should do.' Paper covers – 14pp – very good – tip of corner missing fromback paper cover – scarce £65
516.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
517.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
518.PHYSICAL CULTURE. HEALTH EXERCISES [12520] 'Mrs Hemingway (Mrs Josef Conn's representative) gives private lessons to ladies and children in figure training and breathing exercises, also treatment by muscular exercises for Flat foot. Weak ankles' etc etc. Mrs Hemingway lived at 4 Swiss Terrace, S. Hampstead. Mrs Josef Conn, who lived in Paris, was a well-known proponent of health exercise, influencing Prunella Stack, the founder of the Fitness League. Kate Frye attended her classes for a short time. Single sheet – very good condition £15
Real Photographic
519.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
520.BOTHER THE MEN! I've Still Got My Eye on You [13660] Little boy hides behind the music sheet of that well known song 'Bother the Men'. Posed photograph. Fine- unposted £30
521.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
522.CICELY HAMILTON [12954] photograph by Lena Connell. Fine – unposted £120
523.CORONATION PROCESSION 17 JUNE 1911 [13618] Photograph taken from above near Hyde Park Corner. The image is exceptionally crisp. Fine – unposted £95
524.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
525.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). 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
526.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
527.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
528.FANCY DRESS PARTY OR A PLAY? [13635] photo of group of men, women and children in vaguely early 20th century attire – with a sign 'Votes for Women' prominently displayed. I suspect it may date from the 1920s. £25
529.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
530.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
531.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
532.I WANT MY VOTE [13661] cries a (real, posed) baby – with screwed up eyes and wailing mouth. The message on the back, written by Jack to Dorothy reads 'Just to say that you can have it, as far as I am concerned'. Good – posted £20
533.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. Ib Rotary Photographic Series 'London Life' – fine – a very clear image -unposted £80
534.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
535.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'. £55
536.MRS CHARLOTTE DESPARD [13630] real photographic card, photograph by Lena Connell. Fine – unposted £65
537.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
538.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
539.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
540.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
541.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
542.MRS PETHICK-LAWRENCE [13634] She stands, three-quarter length, with her hands behind her back. The caption is 'Joint Editor of "Votes for Women" – 'Honorary Treasurer National Women's Social and Political Union 4 Clement's Inn, W.c.' Very good – unposted £55
543.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
544.'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
545.'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
546.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
548. 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 here). In May it looked as though the leaders were united in their imprisonment; on their release a different story emerged. Fine – unusual – unposted £80
549. THE WOMEN'S GUILD OF EMPIRE Mrs Flora Drummond – Controller-in-Chief [13685] Card published c 1926 by The Women's Guild of Empire, from its headquarters at 24 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1. Fine -unposted – unusual £95
550.THE WOMEN'S GUILD OF EMPIRE Banner Making for the Great Demonstration, April 17th 1926 [13686] The Women's Guild of Empire organized a demonstration at the critical time just before the General Strike to protest against 'strikes and revolutionary activity in industry'. The march, which brought women (including, wrote Elsie Bowerman to the editor of 'The Spectator', 'wives of working women who have had personal experience of strikes') from all regions of the country to London, ended with a Mass Meeting in the Albert Hall, with Mrs Flora Drummond in the chair.The photograph shows Mrs D inspecting banners – 'Efficiencey and Enterprise' and another, the wording partially hidden, which may say 'Best within the Empire' (??) Issued by the Women's Guild of Empire c 1926. Fine – unposted – unusual £95
551.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
552.VOTES FOR WOMEN [13663] placard is planted beside young girl standing on a barrel under the Trafalgar Square lion. A policeman walks in the background. One of a posed photographic Raphael Tuck series. Fair – a little creased – posted £25
554.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
555.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
556.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
557.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
Artist's cards
559.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
560.'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
562.BUT SURELY MY GOOD WOMAN DON'T YOU YEARN FOR SOMETHING … [13649] The suffragettes are canvassing on the doorstep. The artist is Arthur Moreland; the publisher is C.W. Faulkner. Very good – unposted £45
563.CLEARANCE SALE [13642] 'Special Bargains in Men' Lot 4 includes 'Hundreds of meek, mild and bitter, small size, suitable for Suffragettes and New Woman. The majority dumb and cannot argue'. Fair – posted in 1907 £20
564.'FOR A SUFFRAGETTE' [13646] is the caption to a real coloured photograph of the Fordwich ducking stool hung over the river's edge, near Canterbury. The accompanying rhyme runs, 'The Ducking-Stool and a nice deep pool Was our fore-fathers' plan for a scold; And could I have my way, each Suffragette today Should 'take the chair' and find the water cold.' Very good – unposted £45
566.HENRY FAWCETT, FRS, MP AND MRS FAWCETT [13280] black and white photograph of the double portrait by Ford Madox Brown, from the National Portrait Gallery collection. This particular card dates from before the First World War, having once formed part of Mrs Louisa Thomson Price's suffragette postcard collection. Good – with a couple of creases at the top corners where it has been held in the album. £15
567.'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
568.I PROTEST AGAINST MAN-MADE LAWS [13648] The suffragette is in the dock. Artist is Arthur Moreland; publisher C.W. Faulkner. Very good – unposted £45
569.I WANT A VOTE [13644] is the flag that caricature suffragette is carrying. The caption is 'A perfect woman, nobly planned/To warn, to comfort & command'. Behind her is a notice 'Give me a vote and see what I'll do'. The artist is John Hassall and the publisher is J. Miles and Co. Interestingly this card is a sample sent out bu Miles and the typed message reads 'These cards by Hassal may be obtained at the following prices..' and then he sets them out – beginning with 1/6 for 100. Sent to a gentleman in Park Square, London NW. Fair £20
570.I'VE GOT MY VOTE [13666] says grotesque Edwardian suffragette as she sits under a notice 'A.D. 2000 Votes for Women'. She is sitting on a bench alongside her cat, which has a 'Votes for Women' notice attached to its tail. Deconstruct that. Published by Philco Publishing and posted in October 1909. Good £25
571.IF WE CAN'T HAVE THE VOTE, WE CAN WEAR THE TROUSERS [13655] says woman, dressed in harem trousers, standing on platform in a park surrounded by a crowd of men. The photograph is a posed, photographic and coloured. Very good – posted £35
572.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
578.'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
579.NOW MADAM – WILL YOU GO QUIETLY OR SHALL I HAVE TO USE FORCE? [13650] The suffragette is interrupting a meeting. Artist is Arthur Moreland; publisher is C.W. Faulkner. Fair – unposted £35
580.PARODIES OF THE LATEST PANTOMIME SONGS [13632] is the caption to staged real photographic scene – ostensibly the House of Commons – where among the top-hatted men, a couple of women (one looking amazingly like Helena Bonham Carter as she will appear in the film 'The Suffragette',) The lyrics underneath the picture are headed: 'I don't care if there's a girl there' – which was a popular song in 1909. The lines now read 'Well, I don't care if you send girls there,/Since in Parliament they'd like to e;/I don't care if there's a girl there/Just to keep me company./Young or old girls, shy or bold girls,/May all be called M.P./I don't care if you send girls there,/And a pretty one to sit next me.' Good – posted July 1909. £45
581.PERSUADING A SUFFRAGETTE [13664] a donkey (aka 'suffragette') is to be persuaded by the offer of a carrot. The artist is Ellaby, published by Misch & Co in their 'Suffragette' series £15
582.SALE! SALE! SALE! [13643] Bargains in Men. Lot 4 'Meek, Mild and Bitter, small size – suitable for Suffragettes and New Women..' etc. The firm offering these Bargains is 'Cupid & Hymen Ltd'. £20
583.SOUTHWOLD EXPRESS [13658] 'A slight engine trouble causes a delay – but is soon remedied' is the caption. The artist/publisher is Reg Carter – in the 'Sorrows of Southwold' series. There are a number of joky cards about the Southwold train. In this one a suffragette sitting in a tree is taking advantage of a breakdown to lob a bomb – shouting 'Votes for Women'. Very good £45
584. STANDING UP FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS [13640] She stands – in boater and tailored suit – on the tube train as the men sit, hiding behind their papers. Good – posted £25
585.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
586.'SUFFRAGETTES: [13641] Beauty and Intellect are superior to brute force'. Harridan on soapbox confronts her audience who ask 'How's your old man?' and tell her 'Go home & wash the baby!' Published by Miller & Lang Ltd. The message on the reverse reads 'Please will you pass this round to your friends that beliee in women having the vote. This is a sample of them. What do you think of them? I think myself they all of them that bellieve in it are a bit loose in there [sic] head.' The signature seems to be merely 'Liberal'. Very good – unposted £45
588.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
590.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
591.THE SUFFRAGETTE NOT AT HOME [13647] Domestic chaos when the wife and mother is off to her meeting. The artist is Arthur Moreland; the publisher is C.W. Faulkener. Very good – posted £45
592.A THING OF THE PAST, OLD DEAR. [13667] Harridan – wispy hair, big feet, short skirt – being carried off by policeman – while her companion, with 'Votes for Women' placard, looks on. Fair – a little creased – an English card originally but issued here, I think, by an American publisher. Certainly it was posted in the US to a Nevada address in 1908 £20
593.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
594.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
595.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
596.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
597.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
598.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. £45
599.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
600.'VOTES FOR WOMEN' [13639] is the banner carried by the figure in this rather odd card, published by Bamforth. 'She' seems to be real – or at least a real man dressed as a rather ungainly woman – set against a painted mountainous background. 'She is wearing skirt, tailored jacket, tyroleanish hat and, of course, carrying an umbrella. So we have a 'Votes for Women' banner and a 'Votes for Women' sash worn across the jacket – and the caption is 'And loud that clarion voice replied'. Explanation is, I think, required. That caption is a line from a Longfellow poem in which a young man carried a banner 'Excelsior' through an Alpine village and is eventually found frozen in the mountain pass. Well, there you are – Edwardians were clearly expected to be well acquainted with Longfellow . Good – unposted £45
601.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
602.WHEN WOMEN VOTE 'Darning His Wife's Socks' [13637] He juggles the darning and the baby, while his young wife sits reading, smoking a cigar and reading 'Sporting Life'. A large notice on the wall – 'Revised Marriage Rules' points the way forward. Mitchell and Watkins series – posted Oct 1908 £45
603.WHEN WOMEN VOTE 'Getting Married' [13638] 'Do you swear to obey your wife faithfully in eerything?' Mitchell and Watkins series. Fine – posted in 1908
604.WHEN WOMEN VOTE: Washing Day [13636] Father is in the kitchen bathing baby, while his wife and her friends sit in the parlour playing cards and eating chocolates – commenting 'Yes, my old man is a lazy old wretch'. And that's what will happen when women have the vote. Mitchell and Watkins series. Posted in 1908 £45
605.WHO SAID VOTES FOR WOMAN!!! [13662] Postcard. Bulldog with specs and a pipe sits foursquare against a background of the Union Jack. Fine – unposted £15
606.YES, MADAM, BY YOUR BUMP OF PERSEVERANCE, [13654] IF YOU LIVE ANOTHER 1000 YEARS YOU MIGHT BECOME PRIME MINISTERESS. Phrenologist feels the bumps of a suffragette (she has spectacles, big feet, and a roll of paper labelled 'Votes for Women' rests on her ungainly knee). Drawings of the craniums of Charlie Peace (murderer) and Mr Balfour are pinned to the wall. The pencil-written message – mainly a birthday greeting – ends with 'Vote for Women'. Posted in Chatteris to 'Arthur Squires, Decorator etc, Chatteris'. Fair – card rather worn but image is bright £10
Suffrage Artists' Societies cards
607.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
608.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
609.WOMEN WRITERS' SUFFRAGE LEAGUE [13629] postcard designed by W.H. Margetson. 'Woman' is dragged from the feet of blind 'Justice' by the figure of 'Prejudice'. In very good condition – the black and white version – unposted £55
610.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
Women and First World War
611.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
612.CAHILL, Audrey Fawcett Between the Lines: letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit Pentland Press 1999 [11675] Soft covers – mint £15
613.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
614.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
615.[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
616.(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
617.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
Women and First World War
618.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
621.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
622.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
623.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
624.THE SPHERE, 19 June 1915 [3498] Includes double-page spread – with photographs – on 'Women as war nurses: scenes in the war hospitals in France, England and Russia'. Complete issue – disbound – probably missing back cover -good £12
625.THE SPHERE, 25 March 1916 [3497] Includes photographs and text about London work rooms of the Red Cross – making slippers, knitting, sewing – under chandeliers in Grosvenor Sq house. Complete issue – disbound -probably missing back cover – good £12
626.THE SPHERE, 31 May 1919 [1723] single page with words and pictures showing women workers making shells at the Wolseley Motor Works. Good £3
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627.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
628.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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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
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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
Published by Francis Boutle Publishers -to order see here
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 has a good offer – see here
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 August mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Click here to view a trailer for the series.
In addition Kate Parry Frye: Edwardian actress and suffragette, Kate's life story written by Elizabeth Crawford, will be issued as an e-book by ITV Publishing to coincide with the series.
Vanishing for the Vote
Jill Liddington
Vanishing for the vote recounts what happened on one night, Sunday 2 April, 1911, when the Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements. Suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott this census.
Many did. Some wrote 'Votes for Women' boldly across their schedules. Others hid in darkened houses or, in the case of Emily Wilding Davison, in a cupboard within the Houses of Parliament.
Yet many did not. Even some suffragettes who might be expected to boycott decided to comply – and completed a perfectly accurate schedule. Why?
Vanishing for the Vote explores the 'battle for the census' arguments that raged across Edwardian England in spring 1911. It investigates why some committed campaigners decided against civil disobedience tactics, instead opting to provide the government with accurate data for its health and welfare reforms.
This book plunges the reader into the turbulent world of Edwardian politics, so vividly recorded on census night 1911. Based on a wealth of brand-new documentary evidence, it offers compelling reading for history scholars and general readers alike.
With a Gazetteer, compiled by Elizabeth Crawford and Jill Liddington, showing how c 500 suffrage campaigners reacted to the census and giving details of their addresses and family circumstances.
See here for many complementary 'Suffrage Stories: 1911 census'.
50 illustrations.
Manchester University Press:
Hardback £65
Paperback: £16.99