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London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd,, 1938. First edition, first impression, a history of women in the British civil service, a defence of their role, and an exposition of the systemic disadvantages they face. Hilda Martindale (1875-1952) joined the Home Office in 1907 as a factory inspector and later moved to the Treasury, where she would remain until retirement. Martindale was a vocal advocate for improving working conditions in the civil service, particularly for women, as well as for the removal of the marriage bar. The study "presented the case for women civil servants. Martindale was critical of a system which worked to women's disadvantage, and she highlighted the prejudice of second-rate men, but she was careful to give credit by name to those men in the civil service who she believed had encouraged women" (ODNB). Octavo. Original grey cloth, spine lettered in silver. With dust jacket. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper. Extremities a little sunned, edges slightly spotted,…
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London: George Allen and Unwin, 1938. First edition. Hardback. Good/Good. 536 8vo. Ex school library (County School for Girls, Beckenham), with their stamps to front free end paper. Grey cloth-covered boards, silver titles to spine, 218 pages plus one leaf of publisher's advertisement, blue-grey dust-jacket. Condition notes: Dust-jacket (price-clipped) soiled and edge-worn, boards rubbed and worn, some spotting/foxing to fore-edges, severe foxing to top edges. Binding firm, pages clean and bright.
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- Date Published 1938
- Keywords Civil Service, women
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London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd,, 1938. First edition, first impression, a history of women in the British civil service, a defence of their role, and an exposition of the systemic disadvantages they face; from the library of suffrage and cultural historian Rosamund Billington, with her signed bookplate. Hilda Martindale (1875-1952) joined the Home Office in 1907 as a factory inspector and later moved to the Treasury, where she would remain until retirement. Martindale was a vocal advocate for improving working conditions in the civil service, particularly for women, as well as for the removal of the marriage bar. The study "presented the case for women civil servants. Martindale was critical of a system which worked to women's disadvantage, and she highlighted the prejudice of second-rate men, but she was careful to give credit by name to those men in the civil service who she believed had encouraged women" (ODNB). Billington's Ph.D. thesis was titled "The women's education and suffrage movements,…
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