WOMEN'S

[Catherine Hutton, novelist.] Three Autograph Letters Signed to Birmingham bookseller James Belcher, discussing in moving terms her nursing of her elderly parents, her plans for a future book ('my incipient Queens') and 'Dr. Hutton's bust'.

Author: 
Catherine Hutton (1756-1846), English novelist and letter-writer, daughter of the Birmingham bookseller and local historian William Hutton (1723-1815) [James Belcher, junior, Birmingham bookseller]
Publication details: 
ONE: No place; 4 December 1821. TWO: Bennett's Hill; 21 January 1827. THREE: 'Saturday Morn.'
£1,350.00

All three items in good condition, on lightly aged paper. ONE: 4 December 1821. 3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. The letter, which concerns her plans for a book, begins: 'My dear Sir | In consequence of your opinion, I send a prospectus for Mr. Dawes [the critic Manassah Dawes (d.1829)?], which you will have the goodness to forward at a proper opportunity. But for this opinion, I should not have had the courage to apply to him, though the refusal of two persons ought not to prevent the application to a third. Nothing in my opinion could have been more certain than the subscriptions of Mr.

Printed petition endorsing the registration of midwives, headed 'Private and Confidential.] [Provisional. The Midwives' Institute.' Completed in manuscript with names, addresses and sums pledged.

Author: 
Angela Frances Mary Wigram [née Vaughan], Lady Fitzwygram (d.1935) [The Midwives' Institute, London, founded 1881]
Publication details: 
[London, 1891.]
£150.00

1p., foolscap 8vo. In good conditiion, on lightly-aged paper, with ancient price on blank reverse. The printed text reads: 'Whereas, the Lives of Mothers are daily sacrificed by the action of ignorant persons, who can at present undertake the duties of a Midwife without let or hindrance, although this calling requires careful training and guarantees of efficiency: | The Midwives' Institute has been constituted to deal effectively with this matter by procuring the introduction and passing of an Act, which the British Medical Journal states is the only remedy against the existing evils.

[Pamphlet; education] Berufsbildung für Mädchen. Ein Beitrag zur Frauenfrage.

Author: 
Ludwig Fleischner.
Publication details: 
(Wien [Vienna]: Commissions-Verlag von Georg Szelinski. 1893.)
£28.00

28pp., 8vo. With worn and loose chipped printed covers. Three copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Pamphlet; education] Zur Reform des Unterrichtswesens mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Mädchenschule.

Author: 
Friedrich Bloh, Hauptlehrer in Hamburg
Publication details: 
(Hamburg: Verlag von C. Boysen. 1900.)
£35.00

48pp., 8vo. In brown printed wraps, good condition. Three copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Pamphlet; women] Report of the Women's Advisory Committee on the Domestic Service Problem together with Reports by Sub-committees on Training, Machinery of Distribution, Organisation and Conditions. ('Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majes

Author: 
[The Women's Advisory Committee on the Domestic Service Problem (London)]
Publication details: 
London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1919.
£45.00

36pp., 8vo. Stapled, good condition. Four copies on COPAC.

[Printed bifolium] Notes on the academic history of Oxford since the Commission of 1877.

Author: 
[University of Oxford]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [Oxford, 1907.]
£120.00

Dated in manuscript at head: 'G. E. M. | 16. v. 1907'. 4pp., foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. Apparently printed at the Clarendon Press with the Fell types. Sections on 'New Buildings', 'University Professors, Lecturers, and Readers', 'Honour Schools', 'Courses of Study: Diplomas', 'The Professions', 'Post-graduate Study and Research' and 'Extra Academical Teaching'. In poor condition, with ink stain at head of first page. No copies on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Pamphlet; education] The Spirit of a Profession. Read before the Members of the Alumni Association of the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics at their Summer Session, 1905. (Boston: Published by the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. [c.1905.])

Author: 
Clarence John Blake, Professor of Otology, Harvard University
Publication details: 
(Boston: Published by the Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. [c.1905.])
£45.00

15pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good. No copy on COPAC.

[Book; women] Report of the War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry. (Appendices printed in separate Volume.) ('Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty.'

Author: 
[The War Cabinet Committee on Women in Industry (London)]
Publication details: 
London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1919.)
£40.00

x + 341pp., 8vo. In blue printed wraps. With stained title and wraps repaired with brown paper, otherwise in fair condition, lightly aged and worn.

[Pamphlet; education] [The Federation of University Women, 11 Tavistock Square, W.C.1 (London)] - Annual Report July 1st, 1917.

Author: 
[The Federation of University Women]
Publication details: 
London: Women's Printing Society, 1918
£56.00

35pp., 12mo. Heavily worn, with punch-hole in corner. No copy on COPAC.

[Pamphlets; girls' education] The Girls' Public Day School Trust, Limited (London) Reports and other material

Author: 
[The Girls' Public Day School Trust, Limited (London)]
Publication details: 
1892-1949
£650.00

57 items, comprising: ONE. Run of 56 issues of the Trust's reports, 1892-1949 (lacking issues for 1906, 1922, 1931). Each issue designed to be foldable like a deed into a narrow packet, with title printed at right angles to text for purpose. Until 1939 foolscap 8vo, varying in length from 12pp. to 8pp., and stapled; from 1940 shorter in length but still foolscap 8vo, except for four issues from 1943 to 1946, which are each 4pp, landscape 12mo. Title and layout altering as run proceeds.

[Pamphlets] [The Association of Head Mistresses, 29 Gordon Square, London (Misses R. Young, M. E. Martin and G. Durden Smith, secretaries)] - 26 items, 1923-1957.

Author: 
[The Association of Head Mistresses]
Publication details: 
1923-1957
£400.00

Comprising: ONE. An unbroken run of 18 issues of the Association's reports from 1923 to 1940, with the three issues for 1945, 1953-1954 and 1956-1957 (including a duplicate of the 1931 issue. TWO. Four issues of 'List of Members, Committees and Representatives' (each including 'Proceedings of Annual General Meeting'), 1938-1939, 1939-1940, 1949-1950 and 1951-1952. All 26 items published by the Association of Head Mistresses, 29 Gordon Square, WC1 [London]. 1923-1957.

[Pamphlets] The Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools, 29 Gordon Square, London] - 16 items, 1897-1934.

Author: 
[The Association of Assistant Mistresses in Public Secondary Schools]
Publication details: 
1897-1934
£320.00

Comprising: ONE: Bye-Laws. [1897.] 4pp., 12mo. Stitched into pink printed wraps. With application form (1p., 4to) loosely inserted. Fifteen bye-laws, with manuscript emendations reading 'altered 11.11.05' and 'altered 10.11.06'. TWO: Memorandum and Articles of Association. Registered the 1st Day of December, 1897. Busk, Mellor & Norris, 45 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. (London: Printed by Charles North, The Blackheath Press, S.E.) 31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. The only copy on COPAC at the London School of Economics.

[Printed] St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Scholarship and Entrance Examinations.

Author: 
[St Hugh's College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [Oxford, c.1916.]
£95.00

4pp., small 4to, stapled top left corner, good condition. The second page is on 'Scholarship Examinations' (referring to an examination to be held in March 1916), and the third on 'Subjects for Examination'. The last page is headed 'Entrance Examination.' Attached to a prospectus (2pp., small 4to) headed 'St. Hugh's College, Oxford.' No publication details. [Oxford, c.1916?] Unfortunate misprint in last sentence: 'Students who have fulfilled certain conditions of residence and examinations ['may' inserted in manuscript here] become members of the College.' No copies on COPAC.

[Pamphlet] St. Hilda's Hall, Oxford. Report 1913-1914.

Author: 
[St Hilda's Hall, Oxford]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [Oxford, 1914.]
£95.00

35pp., 8vo. Stapled. Including a 'Report from Oct. 1913 to Oct. 1914'. Pp.12-35 carry a 'List of Past and Present Students'. No copy on COPAC.

[Pamphlet, annual magazine] St. Hugh's College, Oxford. 1922-3.

Author: 
[St Hugh's College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [Oxford, 1923.]
£95.00

27 + xvii pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps. Stapled, good condition.. Containing a 'Report of the Council, June, 1922-May, 1923', lists of council and committee members, and of those to whom degrees have been awarded. Pp.14-27 carry a list of 'Past and Present Undergraduate Members'. Pp.i-xvii is a list of members, with addresses. No copy on COPAC.

[Prospectus] University of Oxford. St. Anne's Society, Musgrave House, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford

Author: 
[St Anne's Society, University of Oxford]
Publication details: 
[Oxford 1947]
£56.00

University of Oxford. St. Anne's Society, Musgrave House, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford.] 1947. 2pp., 8vo. Prospectus, divided into sections headed 'The Society', 'Applications', 'Residence' and 'Expenses'. No copy on COPAC.

[Pamphlet] Somerville College, Oxford. Report for the year ending Michaelmas, 1924, and Calendar, 1924-1925.

Author: 
[Somerville College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
Printed by Baxter's Press, Oxford. [1924.]
£95.00

59 + [1]pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. Containing a 'General Report for the Year ending Michaelmas, 1924.' Pp.35-55 carry a 'List of Members of the College, November, 1924.' No copy on COPAC.

[Handbill] University of Oxford. St. Anne's Society. Regulations for the Scholarship & Entrance Examination, November, 1949 (for admission October, 1950)

Author: 
[St Anne's Society, University of Oxford]
Publication details: 
. Dated from 'Musgrave House, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford' in 'February, 1949.'
£56.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium, fair condition. No copy on COPAC.

[Pamphlet; education] Un Enseignement nouveau. Esquisse d'une instruction pratique et d'une éducation libérale, répondant aux exigences de la vie moderne.

Author: 
[Le Conseil de Perfectionnement des Etudes de l'Ecole Alsacienne]
Publication details: 
(Paris: Typographie A. Davy, 52, Rue Madame. 1898.)
£45.00

31pp., 8vo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. The only copies on OCLC WorldCat at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and Stanford.

[Pamphlet; women's education] Interim Report of the Sub-committee on the Co-ordination of the Vocational Training of Women.

Author: 
[Ministry of Reconstruction. Women's Advisory Committee (London)]
Publication details: 
(London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1918.)
£35.00

8pp., foolscap 8vo. Stapled. Heavily worn. Three copies on COPAC.

{Pamphlets; women workers] The Papers read at the Conference held in [Portsmouth; Glasgow; Oxford; Hull; London].

Author: 
[National Union of Women Workers (London)]
Publication details: 
Published at the Office of the National Union of Women Workers, Parliament Mansions, Victoria Street, SW [London].
£300.00

Five issues, dated 1909, 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1915. Ranging from 159 to 237pp., 8vo, each with additional pages of advertisements, and each in red printed wraps. The first two issues in poor condition, with detached signatures and heavily-chipped covers loose. Each volume containing papers from a range of individuals (including the Countesses of Aberdeen and Jersey, Mrs Edwin Gray, Rev.

[Pamphlet; women's education] International Federation of University Women. Bulletin No. 1. Report of the First Conference, July, 1920.

Author: 
[International Federation of University Women (London)]
Publication details: 
(London: John R. Roberts, Printer, 14 Clerkenwell Green, E.C.1. [c.1920.])
£35.00

88pp., 12mo. Printed front cover on blue paper, loose. In poor condition, worn and aged, with damage from rusty staple. No copy on COPAC.

[Pamphlet; education] The Teaching of Infant Care and Management to School Girls. 1925. Board of Education. Circular 1353.

Author: 
[Board of Education (London)]
Publication details: 
(London: Edited and Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1925.)
£35.00

14pp., 8vo. In green printed wraps. Stapled, good condition. The only copy on COPAC at Leeds.

[Pamphlet] [Association of German Governesses in England, 16 Wyndham Place, Bryanston Square, London, W.] - Twentieth Annual Report. 1896

Author: 
[Association of German Governesses in England]
Publication details: 
1896.
£50.00

. No publication details. 11pp., 12mo. Stapled. Good condition No copy on COPAC.

[Printed British parliamentary paper.] Women in the Civil Service. Copy of Regulations for Competitions governing the Appointment of Women to Situations in the New (Reorganisation) Classes in the Home Civil Service, [...].

Author: 
[Women in the Civil Service, Houses of Parliament, Great Britain, 1921; parliamentary paper]
Publication details: 
Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London: Published by His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1921.
£80.00

Full title: 'Women in the Civil Service. Copy of Regulations for Competitions governing the Appointment of Women to Situations in the New (Reorganisation) Classes in the Home Civil Service,and with regard to the Appointment and Employment of Married Women in Established Situations.' 2pp, foolscap 8vo. Bifolium. In fair condition, on aged paper, with wear to extremities and a couple of small rust stains. Shelfmark, stamp and label of the Board of Education Reference Library, London. Four copies lsited on WorldCat, one on COPAC (LSE).

[Printed handbill.] The Burnham Proposals, 1944. Memorandum issued by the National Union of Women Teachers for consideration by - Members of Parliament; and Members of Local Education Authorities.

Author: 
[The National Union of Women Teachers, London; The Burnham Proposals, 1944]
Publication details: 
National Union of Women Teachers, 41 Cromwell Road, S.W.7. ['Temporary War-Time Address - 13 The Uplands, Ruislip, Middlesex.'] J. W. Sparks Limited, The Printing House, Forest Gate, E.7. [1944.]
£50.00

2pp., 8vo. Handbill. In fair condition, on aged, creased and worn paper. Shelfmarks (of the Board of Education Reference Library, London). Discussing the proposals: 'Differentiation on Account of Sex', 'Differentiation on Account of the Age of Pupils', 'Differentiation on Account of Area' and 'Allowances over and above Scale Salary'. Scarce: no copy on OCLC WorldCat or on COPAC.

[Printed offprint in German.] Aufforderung an die Frauen zur Gründung von Erziehungs-Vereinen.

Author: 
[Illustrirte Monatshefte für Familienglück, weibliche Bildung und Humanitätsbestrebungen, Dresden] [Women's educational associations in Germany]
Publication details: 
Dresden: H. Klemm's Verlag. 1854. [From 'Illustrirten Monatshefte für Familienglück, weibliche Bildung und Humanitätsbestrebungen', June 1854.
£45.00

8pp., 4to. The final page carrying an advertisement for the magazine. On worn and aged paper, with stamp, labels and shelfmark of the Education Department Reference Library [Educational Museum]. Scarce: no copies found on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Printed book.] Lavender Harvest.

Author: 
Constance Farmar [The Cayme Press, Kensington, owned by Humphrey Toulmin (1893-1971)]
Publication details: 
Printed at the Cayme Press, Kensington. 1926.
£120.00

50pp., 12mo. In light-blue boards, with white label on front board carrying title and illustration of sickle with sheaves of lavender. Internally good, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and aged boards. Uncommon: only three copies on COPAC (British Library, Oxford and National Library of Scotland), with a further four in American institutions on WorldCat. Farmar's only other book appears to have been 'Castles in Spain' (1907). She also produced the lyrics to a song titled 'Bluebell-time', with music by Ruby Holland.

[Margaret Oliphant ('Mrs Oliphant'), Scottish author.] Autograph Letter Signed ('M. O. W. Oliphant') to 'Mrs. Laing', gently urging her to visit 'at a time of grief'.

Author: 
Margaret Oliphant [Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant; 'Mrs Oliphant'] (1828-1897), Scottish novelist and biographer
Publication details: 
'7 Ulster Place [London] | Saturday' [no year].
£45.00

2pp., 16mo. Bifolium. Good, on lightly-aged paper. Written with the essence of Victorian tact. 'We shall be extremely glad if you can give us the evening of the 7th. instead of the 5th. and I trust you will permit us to consider you engaged to us for that night - 8 oClock - | I am grieved to think that my note should have reached you at a time of grief. Thank you for kindly consenting to come.'

[Dinah Maria Craik, Victorian novelist, author of 'John Halifax, Gentleman'.] Autograph Letter Signed ('D M Craik') to 'Mrs Western', regarding the taking-in of 'Isabel' and an outbreak of scarlet fever.

Author: 
Dinah Maria Craik [née Mulock] (1826-1887), novelist, best-known for 'John Halifax, Gentleman' (1856)
Publication details: 
On letterhead of The Corner House, Shortlands, Kent. 12 September 1882.
£90.00

4pp., 16mo. Bifolium. 57 lines of closely-written text. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper. She begins by exclaiming 'I have been so very sorry for you!', before urging her correspondent to 'keep quarantine'. 'But about Isabel? [...] I would gladly take her to stay here as I have done beforetime - but there are some impediments - we must have complete separation between our house & yours - Mr Harris's dread is indescribable - he lost his wife & (I think) two sisters with scarlet fever. I think they wd.

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