WOMEN AND VICTORIAN VALUES, 1837-1910
Advice Books, Manuals and Journals for Women

Part 5: Sources from the Bodleian Library, Oxford

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Sarah and Samuel Adams
1825: The complete servant; being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants. London.  247513 e.12

Isabella Mary Beeton
1866/1867: How to manage house and servants, and make the most of your means. London.  268 c.273
c1870: Beetons penny cookery book. London.  1781 f.271
1871: How to manage house, servants and children, with bills of fayre for all the year round. London.  268 c.136
1873: The management of children in health and sickness.  Beetons house and home books series. London.  151 o.263
1890: Mrs Beetons cookery book and household guide. New and greatly enlarged edition. London.  1781 e.79

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Samuel Orchart Beeton
1871: Beetons book of the laundry; or, the art of washing, bleaching and cleansing, London.  268 c.325
(1875)[1876]: Beetons Englishwomans Annual, London.  Per 2705 d.205
c1875: Beetons domestic service guide for the ladys maid, the upper nurse, the under nurse, being a clear account of the individual duties of each servant, London.  247513 f.3(2)
1876: Beetons complete etiquette for ladies, a quick guide to visiting, entertaining and travelling with hints on courtship, marriage and dress, London.  268 c.461
1876: Beetons complete etiquette for gentlemen, a guide to the table, the toilette and the ball-room with hints on courtship, music and manners, London.  268 c.462

Elizabeth Blackwell
1859: The laws of life, with special reference to the physical education of girls, London.  260 g.107
1870: How to keep a household in health.  An address delivered before the Working Womans College, London.  1672 e.119(25)
1879: Counsel to parents on the moral education of their children in relation to sex, London.  260 g.407
1887: Purchase of women:  the great economic blunder, London.  24729 e.10
1895: Pioneer work in opening the medical profession to women, autobiographical sketches, London.  15085 e.34

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Lydia Maria Child
1832: The girls own book. Fourth edition.  London.  Douce c53
1835: The history of the condition of women, in various ages and nations. 2 volumes.  London.  35. 40,41
1837: The family nurse; or, companion of the frugal housewife. London.  37. 65
c1850: The mothers book. Tenth edition.  London.  26461 g.1

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Lydia Maria Child (continued)
1862: The deeper wrong; or, incidents in the life of a slave girl by Harriet Jacobs. Edited by Lydia Maria Child. London, 210 c.289

Hester Chapone
1821: Letters on the improvement of the mind by Mrs Chapone
A fathers legacy to his daughters by Dr Gregory
A mothers advice to her absent daughters by Lady Pennington. Edinburgh.  2628 f.10

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Frances Power Cobbe
1855, 1857: An essay on intuitive morals, being an attempt to popularise ethical science. Part 1. Theory of morals.  Part 2.  Practice of morals. London.  141 i.81,82
1861: 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.  24764 e.24(6)
1861: The workhouse as a hospital. London.  24764 e.24
1862: Home for incurable and infirm women. London.  24725 e.417(10)
1862: Female education, and how it would be affected by university examinations. A paper read at the Social Sciences Congress, London, 1862. London.  2628 e.11(11)
1863: Essays on the pursuits of women. London.  250 n.28
1865: Studies new and old of ethical and social subjects. London.  270 f.11
1869: Criminals, idiots, women and minors.  Is the classification sound?  A discussion on the laws concerning the property of married women. Manchester.  24741 e.139

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Frances Power Cobbe (continued)
1872: Darwinism in morals, and other essays. London.  270 e.139
1874: The hopes of the human race, hereafter and here. London.  141 j.264
1881: The duties of women.  A course of lectures. London.  265 k.233
1889: The modern rack.  Papers on vivisection. London.  26533 e.4
1895: Miss Cobbe on Jesuit doctrines concerning the rights of animals.  The ethics of zoophily.  Reprinted from the Contemporary Review, October, 1895. London.  2653 d.4
n.d.: 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.  26533 e.30(10)

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
1852: The head of the family.  A novel. 3 volumes.  London.  249 w.315-317

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Dina Maria Mulock Craik (continued)
1856: John Halifax, gentleman.  3 volumes.  London.  249 w.318-320
1860: Domestic stories. New edition.  London.  249 t.255

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (continued)
1863: Mistress and Maid.  2 volumes.  London.  250 l.31,32
1872: Hannah.  London.  249 y.531

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (continued)
1874: My mother and I, a girls love story. London.  251 b.401
1886: About money and other things, a gift book.  London.  270 e.662
1888: Concerning men, and other papers. London.  270 e.730

Sarah Stickney Ellis
1833: Pictures of private life.  Second edition.  London.  33.261

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Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)
1839: The women of England, and their social duties, and domestic habits. Third edition.  London.  39.745
1841: Family Secrets, or hints to those who would make home happy. 3 volumes.  London.  41.859-861

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Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)
1843: The wives of England, their relative duties, domestic influence, and social obligations. London.  43.254
[1845]: The daughters of England, and their position in society, character, and responsibilities. London.  45.1282
1845: The young ladies reader; or, extracts from modern authors, adapted for educational or family useLondon.  Vet. A6 e. 857

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Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)
1847: Prevention better than cure; or, the moral wants of the world we live in. London.  47.879
1849: Fireside tales for the young. 4 volumes.  London.  49. 1833,1834

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Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)
1856: The mothers mistake. London.  249 z.535.  Illustrations by Anelay.
1856: The education of character:  with hints on moral training. London.  260 f.47
1859: The mothers of great men. London.  210 a.138
1869: Education of the heart:  womans best work. London.  260 g.59

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Sarah Stickney Ellis (continued)
1893: The home life and letters of Mrs Ellis compiled by her nieces. London.  2696 e.101

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1900: Concerning children. London, Boston.  2623 e.43
1903: The home, its work and influence. London.  1778 e.37
1906: Women and economics.  A study of the economic relation between men and women as a factor in social education. Fifth edition.  London, Boston.  24741 e.45

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Harriet Martineau
1838: How to observe.  Morals and manners. London.  38.421
1849: Household education. London.  49.1204
1861: Health, husbandry, and handicraft. London.  250 b.99

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Lady Sydney Morgan
1829: The book of the boudoir. New edition.  2 volumes.  London.  29.181
1840: Woman and her master. 2 volumes.  London.  40.627

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Marion Reid
1843: A plea for woman:  being a vindication for the importance and the extent of her natural sphere of action. Edinburgh.  43.770

Lydia Howard Sigourney
1835: Letters to young ladies. Glasgow.  26520 g.32
1841: Letters to young ladies. New edition.  London.  41.658
1866: Great and good women:  biographies for girls. Edinburgh.  2107 f.2

Harriet Beecher Stowe
1865: House and home. London.  250 m.89
1874: Woman in sacred history.  A series of sketches drawn from scriptural, historical, and legendary sources. London.  Theol. a.9

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Charlotte Mary Yonge
1861: The young step-mother; or, a chronicle of mistakes. London.  250 f.43
1864: A book of golden deeds, of all times and all lands. London.  223 k.5

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Charlotte Mary Yonge (continued)
1865: The clever woman of the family. 2 volumes.  London.  250 u.244, 245
1869: The book of worthies, gathered from the old histories and now written anew. London.  210 g.301
1885: The daisy chain birthday book from the writings of Miss Charlotte M Yonge. by Eadgyth. London.  270 f.912
1886: The Victorian half-century, a jubilee book. London.  2288 e.163
[1893]: The girls little book. London.  26520 f.77