BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women from William Robertson

London: Warne, 1985. Revised. Hardcover. Good/good. London: Warne, 1985. Revised. Hardcover. Good/good. Hardback. Revised Edition. Good/Good. When Beatrix Potter died in 1943 no one, not even her husband, knew the full story of her life. Despite her fame, she preffered anonymity, hiding her creative genius beneath the persona of a formidable Lakeland… Read more about this item

London: Literary Guild, 1970. Book Club. Hardcover. Good. Good/No Jacket. Classic biography of Winston Churchill's mother. Contains 336 pages, 21 x 13.5cm, with 16 pages of b&w photos. Beige cloth boards. No dust jacket. Internally, shows weakening front hinge reinforced by invisible tape, otherwise in good condition: clean, bright and unmarked in excellent bindings.

Durham: Pentland Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good/Good. Durham: Pentland Press, 1995. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardback. 1st Edition. Good/Good. A collection of stories, written in the main in the words of ex-WAAFs of the Second World War. It tells of their joys, their tears, and their times of great trauma, but, through it all, there shines good humour, pride, a sense of belonging… Read more about this item

London: Robert Hale , 1990. Hardcover. Good/good. The memoirs of a British nurse in the Western Desert during World War II. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 171 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpapers removed, some library markings. Black cloth boards in good pictorial dust jacket. Internally, good: clean, bright and unmarked in sound… Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University , 1996. Paperback. Fine. The surprising, resilient and transformative windings of lesbian writing and lesbian lives are the author's themes in this work. The ten essays, which span fifteen years, shape a poetic politics that transforms textual and everyday realities. A poetics of sinuous movement - the turning of women to women - informs these reflections on… Read more about this item

London: Chapmans , 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good/-. Whilst working as a nurse in Baghdad in 1989 the author and her friend, 'Observer' journalist Farzad Bazoft, were arrested and accused of spying. After 6-months detention in appalling conditions, Farzad was executed and Daphne sentenced to a further 15-years. This is the story of… Read more about this item

London: Grafton, 1989. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. True stories of British and German housewives left to fend for themselves while their men went to fight in WWII. By stages, dramatic, funny, tragic and poignant. A unique insight into the effects of war on everyday life and relationships. Contains 295 pages, 24 x 155cm, with 16… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz , 1989. Hardcover. Good/good. Vera Brittain was an ordinary housewife, and active pacifist, during World War II, living mainly in London. This is the third volume of her diaries, covering the period of the London Blitz. Gives real insight into social conditions in Britain during the war. Size, 24 x 155cm, 352 pages.… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1992. Hardcover. Good/very good. A rare glimpse of the effects of war from a non-combatant's point of view - the author was an Army nurse in Vietnam. An extraordinary story of a woman who came face-to-face with the drama and tragedy of war, and found her own peace in the end. Contains… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz , 1992. Hardcover. Good +/very good. Good+/Very Good. One woman's voyage home to Britain from Lagos, West Africa, as the only female crew aboard a cargo vessel. Part travelogue, part testiment to a slowly disappearing way of life upon the sea. Size 22.5 x 14cm, 208 pages. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some… Read more about this item

London: Macmillan , 1987. First English language edition. Hardcover. Good/good. Originally published in W.Germany in 1946 as, 'Gefangnistagebuch', and translated into English in 1987 by Michael Hulse. One of the first books published in Germany after the war, this is the moving prison diary of a young German widow and mother of two children, who was denounced… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. Hardcover. Fair/good. Fair/Good. Compelling accounts of bravery by female police officers, often in the words of the women themselves. Size, 22 x 14.5cm, 211 pages, 8 pages of b&w photos. Ex-library, front endpaper removed, some library markings, black cloth boards in good dust jacket. Internally, shows page margins beginning… Read more about this item