WOMEN AND VICTORIAN VALUES, 1837-1910

Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women

Part 5: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

Part 6: Sources from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Part 7: Sources from the Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

Contents of Reels - Part 5

REEL ONE

Sarah and Samuel Adams

The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy.
London. 1825.

Isabella Mary Beeton

How to manage house and servants, and to make the most of your means.
London. 1866/1867

Beeton’s penny cookery book, being useful recipes for good breakfasts, dinners and suppers at a cost varying from tenpence to two shillings per day for six persons.
London. c.1870

How to manage house, servants and children, with bills of fare for all the year round.
London. 1871

The management of children in health and sickness.
Beeton’s house and home books series.
London. 1873

Mrs Beeton’s cookery book and household guide.
London. 1890. Enlarged edition.

REEL TWO

Samuel Orchart Beeton

Beeton’s book of the laundry; or, the art of washing, bleaching and cleansing.
London. 1871

Beeton’s Englishwoman’s Annual (1875).
London. 1876

Beeton’s domestic service guide for the lady’s maid, the upper nurse, the under nurse, being a clear account of the individual duties of each servant.
London. c.1875

Beeton’s complete etiquette for ladies, a quick guide to visiting, entertaining and travelling with hints on courtship, marriage and dress.
London. 1876

Beeton’s complete etiquette for gentlemen, a guide to the table, the toilette and the ball-room with hints on courtship, music and manners.
London. 1876

Elizabeth Blackwell

The laws of life, with special reference to the physical education of girls.
London. 1859

How to keep a household in health. An address delivered before the Working Woman’s College.
London. 1870

Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children in relation to sex.
London. 1879

Purchase of women: the great economic blunder.
London. 1887

Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women, autobiographical sketches.
London. 1895

REEL THREE

Lydia Maria Child

The girl’s own book.
London. 1832. Fourth edition.

The history of the condition of women, in various ages and nations.
London. 1835. 2 volumes.

The family nurse; or, companion of the frugal housewife.
London. 1837

REEL FOUR

Lydia Maria Child (continued)

The deeper wrong; or, incidents in the life of a slave girl.
by Harriet Jacobs.
London. 1862. Editor Lydia Maria Child

REEL FIVE

Frances Power Cobbe

An essay on intuitive morals, being an attempt to popularise ethical science. Part 1. Theory of morals. Part 2. Practice of morals.
London. 1855, 1857

The sick in the workhouses; who are they, and how should they be treated. A paper read at the Meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science in Dublin, August, 1861.
London. 1861

The workhouse as an hospital.
London. 1861

Home for incurable and infirm women.
London. 1862

Female education, and how it would be affected by university examinations.
A paper read at the Social Sciences Congress, London, 1862.
London. 1862

Essays on the pursuits of women.
London. 1863

Studies new and old of ethical and social subjects.
London. 1865

Criminals, idiots, women and minors. Is the classification sound? A discussion on the laws concerning the property of married women.
Manchester. 1869

REEL SIX

Frances Power Cobbe (continued)

Darwinism in morals, and other essays.
London. 1872

The hopes of the human race, hereafter and here.
London. 1874

The duties of women. A course of lectures.
London. 1881

The modern rack. Papers on vivisection.
London. 1889

Miss Cobbe on Jesuit doctrines concerning the rights of animals. The ethics of zoophily. Reprinted from the Contemporary Review, October, 1895.
London. 1895

Light in dark places. Victoria Street Society for the protection of animals against vivisection united with the International Association for the Total Suppression of Vivisection.
London. nd.

REEL SEVEN

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The head of the family. A novel.
London. 1852. 3 volumes

REEL EIGHT

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (continued)

John Halifax, gentleman.
London. 1856. 3 volumes

Domestic stories.
London. 1860. New edition

REEL NINE

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (continued)

Mistress and Maid.
London. 1863. 2 volumes

Hannah.
London. 1872

REEL TEN

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (continued)

My mother and I, a girl’s love story.
London. 1874

About money and other things, a gift book.
London. 1886

Concerning men, and other papers.
London. 1888

Sarah Stickney Ellis

Pictures of private life.
London. 1833. Second edition.

REEL ELEVEN

Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)

The women of England, and their social duties, and domestic habits.
London. 1839. Third edition.

Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy.
London. 1841. 3 volumes

REEL TWELVE

Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)

The wives of England, their relative duties, domestic influence, and social obligations.
London. 1843

The daughters of England, and their position in society, character, and responsibilities.
London. [1845]

The young ladies’ reader; or, extracts from modern authors, adapted for educational or family use.
London. 1845

REEL THIRTEEN

Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)

Prevention better than cure; or, the moral wants of the world we live in.
London. 1847

Fireside tales for the young.
London. 1849. 4 volumes

REEL FOURTEEN

Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)

The mother’s mistake.
London. 1856. Illustrations by Anelay.

The education of character: with hints on moral training.
London. 1856

The mothers of great men.
London. 1859

Education of the heart: woman’s best work.
London. 1869

REEL FIFTEEN

Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)

The home life and letters of Mrs Ellis compiled by her nieces.
London. 1893

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Concerning children.
London, Boston. 1900

The home, its work and influence.
London. 1903

Women and economics. A study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social evolution.
London, Boston. 1906. Fifth edition.

REEL SIXTEEN

Harriet Martineau

How to observe. Morals and manners.
London. 1838

Household education.
London. 1849

Health, husbandry, and handicraft.
London. 1861

REEL SEVENTEEN

Lady Sydney Morgan

The book of the boudoir.
London. 1829. New edition. 2 volumes

Woman and her master.
London. 1840. 2 volumes

REEL EIGHTEEN

Marion Reid

A plea for woman: being a vindication of the importance and extent of her natural sphere of action.
Edinburgh. 1843

Lydia Howard Sigourney

Letters to young ladies.
Glasgow. 1835

Letters to young ladies.
London. 1841. New edition

Great and good women: biographies for girls.
Edinburgh. 1866

Harriet Beecher Stowe

House and home
London. 1865

Woman in sacred history. A series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources.
London. 1874

REEL NINETEEN

Charlotte Mary Yonge

The young step-mother; or, a chronicle of mistakes.
London. 1861

A book of golden deeds, of all times and all lands.
London. 1864

REEL TWENTY

Charlotte Mary Yonge (continued)

The clever woman of the family.
London. 1865. 2 volumes

The book of worthies, gathered from the old histories and now written anew.
London. 1869

The daisy chain birthday book … from the writings of Miss Charlotte M Yonge. by Eadgyth.
London. 1885

The Victorian half-century, a jubilee book.
London. 1886

The girl’s little book.
London. [1893]

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