WARREN, Mrs Eliza   

See also: Domestic medicine and childcare.

• House and its furnishings
• 1582.1 A house and its furnishings; how to choose a house and furnish it at small expense, by Mrs Warren. Author of "How I managed my house on two hundred pounds a year", "How I managed my children", "Comforts for small incomes", "Six cookery cards for the kitchen", etc. etc. Editor of "The treasury of literature" and "The ladies' treasury".
  [1869]
  18.5 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv [v] vi-vii [viii] [1] 2-82, [1] 2-16 publ ads   1s
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  Date from BMCat. The book tells the story of a young woman setting up home.

• Young wife's perplexities
• 1583.1 A young wife's perplexities: with hints on the training and instruction of young servants. By Mrs Warren, author of "How I managed my house on L200 a year", "How I managed my children", "My lady-help and what she taught me", "The way it is done", etc.
  1886
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv [v] vi-viii [9] 10-94, [i-ii] publ ads   1s on cover
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  The author's instructions on household management and childcare are presented within a fictional narrative. There is a separate section on training servants.

• Comfort for small incomes
• 1584.1 Comfort for small incomes. By Mrs Warren, author of "How I managed my house on two hundred pounds a year", "How I managed my children", and editor of "The ladies' treasury".
  1866
  18.5 x 12.0 cm   Pp [iii-v] vi-viii [ix] x-xi [xii] [13] 14-96, [i] publ ad   frontis engr
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  The frontispiece engraving shows a distraught kitchen-maid plucking a hare, about to be rebuked by a severe-faced cook. The tale of a cook trying to pluck a hare as if it were a fowl was a well-known joke earlier in the century. The book takes the form of a fictional narrative with miscellaneous advice on the management of servants, cookery, thrift and moral behaviour.

• How I managed my house
• 1585.1 How I managed my house on two hundred pounds a year. By Mrs. Warren, editress of "The ladies' treasury". Sixth thousand.
  1864
  19.0 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv-vi [vii-viii] 9-96   1s on cover
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  Binding: limp yellow and black cloth. The LB copy is on microfilm. This was originally serialised in the "Ladies' treasury', issued monthly at 6d. It is supposedly the author's autobiography, using a narrative framework to bring together oddments of advice on housekeeping.

• 1585.2 — [Title as 1864, another edition 1865]
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv-vi [vii-viii] [9] 10-96   1s on cover
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  Binding: yellow cloth. The twenty-first thousandth impression. General comments: Mrs. Warren's popularity as a author can be gauged from the success of this book. The preface to the first edition is dated November 1864, while this first reprint has a prefatory note dated February 1865, which indicates a sale of twenty thousand copies in three months in addition to the audience reached through the "Ladies' treasury'. A third American edition was published Boston: 1866. There is a copy in the Library of Congress.

• How the lady-help taught girls
• 1586.1 How the lady-help taught girls to cook and be useful.
  1879
  18.5 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv [v] vi [7] 8-96   1s on cover
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  With index. @Binding: yellow, red and blue illustrated boards. @Within the framework of an informal narrative the author suggests ways for mothers to instruct their own children or young servants in domestic skills. She includes a spinkling of moral advice and some unusual items, among them how to cook an elephant's foot.

• My lady-help
• 1587.1 My lady-help, and what she taught me.
  1877
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-v] vi-viii [1] 2-102  
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  This is another collection of household hints worked into an account of the author's supposed personal reminiscences.

• How I managed my children
• 1907.1 How I managed my children from infancy to marriage//by Mrs. Warren//editress of the "Ladies' treasury"//author of "How I managed my house on two hundred pounds a year".
  1865
  19.0 x 12.5 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv [v] vi [7] 8-100   [1s on cover]
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  Binding: yellow cloth.@ This is a supposedly autobiographical narrative which offers advice to mothers on the practical and moral problems of bringing up children.

• 1907.2 — Twenty-second thousand.
  18.0 x 12.0 cm   Pp [i-iii] iv [v] [7] 8-100   [1s on cover]
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  Binding: pink paper boards.