Wojtczak, Helena.
Mary Raleigh Richardson: The Suffragette Arsonist Who Slashed the Rokeby Venus
(Hastings Press, 2025).
Signed by the author. This first book-length biography of the militant suffragette Mary Raleigh Richardson reveals for the first time her true identity, ancestry, childhood and education, as well as her surprising - and exciting - international travels before she became embroiled in the suffrage struggle. During her time as a militant Mary was arrested nine times. Prepared to die for the cause, she adopted the hunger strike each time she was imprisoned, and was forcibly fed countless times. Her hunger strike medal boasted more bars than that of any other suffragette - something of which she remained proud for the rest of her life. Her most infamous deed was to use a cheap meat cleaver to inflict several gashes into Velasquez's Rokeby Venus, a world-famous and priceless painting. In a lesser-known and yet equally sensational attack she burned down a historic mansion near Hampton Court. During the war she continued to work for the vote, allying herself with both Sylvia Pankhurst's ELFS and the United Suffragists. Having joined the Labour Party she twice stood for Parliament, and in 1933 was briefly a member of Mosley's British Union of Fascists. Finding it did not align with her values she returned to socialism for the rest of her life. In retirement she penned Laugh a Defiance, a memoir of her suffrage days. The work is essential reading for suffrage scholars and those keen to explore the lives of the individual personalities within the militant movement. Paperback. Fine. 320pp. Order No. NSBK-C15912
Keywords: 9781904109600, signed by the author, suffragettes, Votes for Women, biography, biographies, social history, women's history, Mary Raleigh Richardson, hunger strikes, militancy,suffragette, Canada, Canadian politics, arson, militant
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Wheatley, Vera.
The Life and Work of Harriet Martineau:
(Secker & Warburg, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, a good working copy in chipped, lightly soiled dustwrapper. 421pp. Order No. NSBK-C608
Keywords: B0006D6W9Y, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Harriet Martineau, deaf, deafness
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Reynolds, M. E.
Memories of John Galsworthy:
(Robert Hale, 1936).
By his sister. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, rubbed and browned dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A10299
Keywords: B000I83NSU, John Galsworthy, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, writers, literature, authors, fiction, novels, Forsyte Saga, M. E, Reynolds
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Gooddie, Sheila.
Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel
(John Wiley, 2003).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C15927
Keywords: 9780470854235, Gladstone, Mary Gladstone, women's history, Victorian, Hawarden, Gladstones, politics
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Hall, Catherine, McClelland, K & Rendall, Jane.
Defining the Victorian Nation: Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867
(CUP, 2000).
Paperback. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xii + 303pp. Order No. NSBK-A8593
Keywords: 9780521576536, class, race, gender, Victorian, British, British History, women's history, Reform Act, Britain, England, English, Jane Rendall, Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, politics, democracy, political
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Worthen, John.
D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912
(CUP, rpt., 1992).
Paperback. Crease to front cover, some foxing / soiling to page edges - a good working copy. xviii + 626pp. Order No. NSBK-A12540
Keywords: 0521437725, D. H. Lawrence, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, Edwardian
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Phillips, Anne.
Democracy and Difference:
(Polity Press, 1993).
Paperback. Very good+. vii + 175pp. Order No. NSBK-C13642
Keywords: 0745610978, democracy, difference, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, politics, political, politicians, government
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Hunt, E. H..
British Labour History, 1815-1914:
(Weidenfield & Nicolson, 1981).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise good. xii + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-A3942
Keywords: 0297777866, Britain, British, England, English, history, labour, work, employment, workforce, wages, working week, trade union, trade unionism, working class, working-class, class, Labour Party, women, Irish immigration
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Storkey, Elaine.
What's Right With Feminism:
(SPCK, 1985).
A Third Way Book. Paperback. Fine. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C13647
Keywords: 0281041806, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Christian, religion, religious
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Swindells, Julia, ed.
The Uses Of Autobiography:
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Gender and Society: Feminist Perspectives on the Past and Present. Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. ix + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-A15614
Keywords: 9780748403653, autobiography, self history, life history, life histories, lives, memoirs, Ruth Symes, Ruth A. Symes, Julia Swindells, women, Africa, USA, Middle East, France, New Zealand, Britain, autobiographers, life writing, Catharine Cappe
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