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Buy this book on-line McLAREN, BARBARA - with an introduction by Right Hon. H. H. Asquith,M.P.: : WOMEN OF THE WAR. [Contrib. Helen Mary Gaskell,CBE.,SIGNED copy.]LONDON.HODDER AND STOUGHTON,1917. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj,contributor/founder SIGNED,1st edn.VG.No owner inscrptn but ink,handwritten dedication,signature and date thus: 'To Miss ???black (surname) without whom the War Library would not be what it is! Best wishes from H M Gaskell Christmas 1917' to an off-set shadowed front free endpaper [Surname,I'm unable to decipher ??? !] Publisher's original, brown/khaki(?) paper-covered boards with pale beige cloth blind-spine,and black ink printed paper labels - one to front board and one to darkened spine/backstrip. Minimally marked front board,rear board with fluid stains to top+lower rear corners,all corner tips inevitably rubbed with concomitant but minimal paper loss. With negligible shelf-wear,bumping,rubbing to edges and corners - two small splits of no great length,with slight fraying to rear gutter's fold/crease,one at head of spine the other slightly lower,and white eps with off-set shadowing from opposing pastedowns to verso and recto of front+ rear free endpapers respectively,both hinges solid and sound with just a small split to top,rear pastedown and minimal cracking.Top edges very toned from dust-soiling,but without foxing/spotting, fore-edges slightly brighter and less toned,but with some minimal,and very faint sporadic foxing/spotting; contents bright, tight,clean with usual sporadic foxing/ spotting - no intentional dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - though consecutive top edges of pp80/4 with accidental,tiny folds/creases,else appears unread - apart from my own collation.Any discolouring or other imperfections are commensurate with book's age and therefore with some minimal foxing/spotting,mainly to page edges but elsewhere too.UK,8vo HB, no dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+2-148pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Right Hon. H. H. Asquith,M.P.,author preface,foxed/spotted contents list/table, XXXI (31) chapters/contributions,32 contemporary b/w portrait photographs - some with two portraits to a plate - of the women involved/described,a contemporary colour illustrated frntis (landworker,nurse and factory worker), accomapAnied with 31 potted essay of their war work efforts,plus [unpaginated] foxed title page,and the prior mentioned colour frntis.
Another very presentable item,and scarce with this signature; this example has survived well without any dw/dj or other protection - and particularly in respect of the usual discolouration and other imperfections typically encountered or expected in a book of this age.
Helen Mary Gaskell (née Melville),CBE, known as May Gaskell (b. 1853 – d. 1940) was a society hostess and philanthropist in London who established the British War Library.She had a platonic relationship with the artist Edward Burne-Jones,who wrote her up to six letters a day,and painted a famous portrait of her daughter Amy.
The British War Library Service was a venture launched in 1914 to provide reading material to WW1 British soldiers. It was one of the first examples of bibliotherapy in a military context, inspiring the American Library War Service to be founded a few years later - though there are earlier examples, e.g. the Soldiers' Free Library.The service was created by Helen Mary Gaskell,CBE,using Lady Battersea's large but empty London home Surrey House as a base.It began its operations in 1914.The success of Gaskell's intervention of creating of the War Library and her involvement in the running of it,had an unrealised benefit. Reading has been shown to offer sick, traumatized and recovering combatants emotional and psychological caregiving in ways that she could not always have predicted and that are not visible in the literary/historical record.
The Order of the British Empire (OBE) is a British order of chivalry,rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,and public service outside the civil service.It was established on 4 June 1917 by King George V in order to fill gaps in the Honours system,in particular,he wished to create an Order to honour many thousands of those who had served in a variety of non-combatant roles during WW1.
When first established,the Order had only one division.However,in 1918,soon after its foundation,it was formally divided into Military and Civil Divisions.It comprises five classes across both civil and military divisions,the most senior two of which make the recipient either a knight if male,or a dame if female.The [CBE] Commander of the British Empire is the 3rd in order of precedence.As the book was published in 1917 and in the contents list of this book,Gaskell is listed as a CBE,so she must have been only recently or prior (then) awarded the honour for her work in her creation.
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