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2 Seafaring women: traditional roles

The books inlcuded in this list are about seafaring women employees doing traditional female work on ships such as stewardess, nurse, pursurette, social director.


Traditional female work

Andrews, L. (1989) The White Empress. London: Corgi.

Fodie, S. (1991) Waitemata Tales. Auckland, NZ: Ferry Boat Publications.

Haynes, A. (1999) Union-Castle Line Pursurette. Coltishall, Norfolk: Mallet and Bell.

Howard Bailey, C. (1990) Down the Burma Road: Work and Leisure for the Below-Deck Crew of the Queen Mary (1947-67). Southampton: Southampton City Council.

Hyslop, D., Forsyth, A., Jemima, S. (1997) Titanic Voices: Memories from the Fateful Voyage. Basingstoke: St Martin's Press. ISBN 0312217927.

Jessop, V. (1998) Introduced, annotated and edited by Maxtone-Graham, J. Titanic Survivor: The Memoirs of Violet Jessop, Stewardess. Stroud: Sutton.

Ladd, E. (1968) Marty Runs Away to Sea. New York: William Morrow.

Louise, H. (1980) Sailors in Skirts. London/New York: Regency Press.

 
 

Mulhearn, R. (1996) Room Service.I In: Aspects of Life Aboard the Ocean Liner. Liverpool: Merseyside Maritime Museum.

Nixson, M. M. (1954) Ring Twice for the Stewardess. London: John Long.

Scobie, D. (1990) A Stewardess Rings a Bell. Boston: Stylus.

Stanley, J. (1987) Women at Sea: Canadian Pacific stewardesses in the 1930s. Liverpool: self-published.

Stanley, J. (1998) All at sea. Nursing Times; 94: 8, 28-30.

Stanley, J. (1998) Finding a flowering of typists at sea; evidence from a new Cunard deposit. Business Archives; 76. November.

Stanley, J. (1999) The company of women: stewardesses on liners 1919-1938. The Northern Mariner/ Mariner Du Nord. Summer.

Stanley, J. (1999) A brief glowering of typists at sea. American Neptune; 59: 3.

Saunders, J. (1998) Love Boats. St Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn publications. ISBN 1567186076.