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[Elizabeth Rayner Parkes, campaigner for women's rights.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Bessie R Belloc') to an unnamed male recipient, regarding the sending of 'the particulars of my Life', in response to a circular.

Author: 
Elizabeth Rayner Parkes [ Bessie Belloc ] (1929-1925), journalst and campaigner for women's rights
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 11 Great College Street, Westminster. 20 April 1898.
£45.00

1p., 12mo. In very good condition, on lightly-aged paper, with small pin holes at head. The letter reads: 'I enclose the particulars of my Life for which you have asked me [not present] | I only received your communication on the 7th of April, tho' I see your circular is dated in March; or I would have written earlier -'. In a contemporary hand on the reverse: 'Madame Belloc, authoress, has written interesting memoirs. A prominent lady of the older literary generation.'

[Pamphlet; woman's education] L'Avenir de l'Instruction Féminine. Rapport lu le 22 juin 1900 au Congrès international des Œuvres et Institutions féminines.

Author: 
M. M. Ricardou [A. Ricardou], Docteur ès-lettres, Professeur au Lycée Charlemagne
Publication details: 
(Paris: Société d'Éditions Scientifiques [c.1900].)
£30.00

16pp., 12mo. In brown printed wraps, good condition. Four copies on OCLC WorldCat.

[Pamphlet; education] Madame de Maintenon and Women's Education. Printed by and for the Manchester Branch of the Teachers' Guild.

Author: 
Oliver Elton, Lecturer on English Literature in the Owens College .
Publication details: 
(Manchester: William Kemp, Ardwick Printing Works, Hyde Road. 1900.)
£40.00

16pp., 12mo. In grey printed wraps, good condition. The only copy on COPAC at Oxford.

[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.

[Handbills] Somerville College, Oxford. Conditions of Admission. And related material.

Author: 
[Somerville College, Oxford]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [Oxford.]
£150.00

Conditions of Admission. First page headed in manuscript 'Recd. May, 1915.' 4pp., 12mo. Bifolium. Attached to two items. First: Regulations required for B.A. Degree, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford, c.1915.] 1p., 12mo. Second: a prospectus (1p., 8vo) headed Somerville College, Oxford. No publication details. [Oxford, c.1915.] With list of senior members (the librarian's name altered in manuscript from 'Lucy Kempson' to 'M. GILES.' No copies of any of the three 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.

[Sidney Hartnoll Beard, President of the animal rights vegetarian society the Order of the Golden Age.] Two Typed Letters Signed (both 'Sidney H. Beard') to John Nayler, explaining in the second what he has done 'to ensure the permanency of our work'

Author: 
Sidney Hartnoll Beard, founder and President of the 'food reform' movement vegetarian animal rights society the Order of the Golden Age [John Nayler, Methodist journalist]
Publication details: 
Letter One: on letterhead of Barcombe Hall, Paignton; 26 May 1904. Letter Two: on letterhead of The Order of the Golden Age, Paignton; 2 August 1905.
£120.00

Both items 1p., 4to. ONE: 26 May 1904. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. He has always shrunk from 'giving advice to anyone concerning investments', but would consider 'the £10 shares of the London Necropolis Company at 7 1/2 as being safe to buy for investment.' He discusses the state of the company, and also suggests 'Japanese bonds'. TWO: 2 August 1905. In fair condition, on aged and worn paper, with short closed tears to a central crease. 'I am doing what I can to ensure the permanency of our work, but you are doubtless aware that the O.G.A.

[Margaret, Lady Rhondda.] Autograph Card Signed ('M. R.') to 'Dear John', apologising for 'having been so rude to my fellow guest' at a lunch, and admitting that she is 'ridiculously [...] touchy' about her magazine 'Time and Tide'.

Author: 
Margaret, Lady Rhondda [Margaret Haig Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda] (1857-1958)], suffragette and nfounder of the magazine Time and Tide
Publication details: 
On letterhead of 'Time and Tide', 32 Bloomsbury Street, London WC1. 10 December 1952.
£80.00

Written over 13 lines on both sides of the 9 x 11 cm card. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper. 'Dear John, | I do feel ashamed of having been so rude to my fellow guest yesterday - It was a dreadful thing to do! The fact is I am, I suppose, very touchy about Time & Tide - ridiculously so really - I don't think he had read it - but after all why should he, poor man - I really wasn't very fair - | Please forgive me - except for feeling that I had behaved abominab[ly], just at the end, I thoroughly enjoyed my most excellent luncheon'.

[Victorian score and separate libretto of work promoting women's employment.] 'Women at Work. An Operetta or Cantata for Academies, Schools, &c. The libretto by A. J. Foxwell. The music by T. Mee Pattison.' and 'Words of Women at Work. An Operetta.'

Author: 
A. J. Foxwell [Andrew James Foxwell (1826-1903)], librettist; T. Mee Pattison [Thomas Mee Pattison (1845-1936)], composer [The Curwen Press, London]
Publication details: 
Score ('Old Notation Edition'): London: J. Curwen & Sons, Ltd., 8 & 9 Warwick Lane, E.C. Libretto: London: J. Curwen & Sons, 8, Warwick Lane, E.C. [1886]
£350.00

SCORE: [4] + 75pp., 4to. In printed wraps with decorative cover and advertisements. A fair copy, on aged paper, in worn and chipped wraps repaired at the spine. Unusually positive and forward-looking for its period, on the subject of women in the workplace. Note on reverse of title: 'The writer of the Libretto wishes to acknowledge his obligations to "Work and how to do it," by Mrs.

[Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly.] Two Typed Letters Signed to H. E. Wortham, the first regarding the film rights to his biography 'Chinese Gordon', and the second sending reviews, while complaining that the book trade is 'at a low ebb'.

Author: 
Edward Weeks (1898-1989), editor of the Atlantic Monthly [Hugh Evelyn Wortham (1884-1959), biographer of Major-General Charles George Gordon ['Chinese Gordon'; 'Gordon of Khartoum'] (1833-1885)]
Publication details: 
Both on letterheads of The Atlantic Monthly Press Inc, 8 Arlington Street, Boston. 3 February and 17 May 1933.
£80.00

Both letters 1p., 4to. Both in good condition, on lightly aged and creased grey paper. Both addressed to Wortham at 75 Courtfield Gardens, London SW5. Letter One: Weeks writes that he has received a letter from Leland Hayward, Inc., 'inquiring whether any steps have been taken to arrange for the sale of the motion-picture rights of CHINESE GORDON [published in England as 'Gordon: An intimate Portrait']'. He plans to 'send off to them proofs [sic] sheets of the book as soon as they are received from the press'.

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