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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Kalish, Mildred Armstrong.
Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
(Bantam, 2007).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 292pp. Order No. NSBK-A14200
Keywords: 0553804952, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, Iowa, Great Depression, women, women's autobiography, history, 30s, thirties
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Scott, Anne Firor and Scott, Andrew MacKay.
One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage
(Illinois UP, rpt., 1982).
Hardback. Scratches to front cover, otherwise very good. x + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C12628
Keywords: 0252010116, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, suffrage, suffragettes, politics, votes, emancipation, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Thompson, Dorothy.
Queen Victoria: Gender and Power
(Virago Press, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise good+. xix + 167pp. Order No. NSBK-C12394
Keywords: 0860687732, Queen Victoria, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, queens, monarchs, throne, royality, queenship
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Nelson, Barbara J and Chowdhury, Najma.
Women and Politics Worldwide:
(Yale University Press, 1994).
Hardback. Covers faded in patches, otherwise a good+ copy. xi + 818pp. Order No. NSBK-C11884
Keywords: 0300054076, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, world, international, Europe, European, politics, political, politicians, government, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists
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Petroski, Catherine.
A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail
(Northeastern UP, 1997).
American woman's honeymoon sea voyage in 1855, based on her diary. Paperback. Back cover creased, otherwise very good. xviii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-C1616
Keywords: 1555532977, America, American, American women, American women's history, sea, nautical, marriage, honeymoon, Susan Hathorn, Hathorn, bride, diary, woman writer, women writers, American women writers, United States, USA, nineteenth century, maritime
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Matthews, Mike.
Alf Cobb: Mugsborough Rebel. The Struggle for Justice in Edwardian Hastings
(Hastings Press, rpt, 2003).
Paperback. Fine. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-A6675
Keywords: 190410911X, Hastings, history, social history, Sussex, Britain, British, England, English, Alf Cobb, Robert Tressell, Social Democratic Federation, socialist, socialists, socialism, mob orators, rebels, Mugsborough, working class, working classes, political rebels, radicalism, Edwardian, twentieth century, labour movement, politics, local politics, local government, oratory, local councils, local corporations, local councillors
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Scutt, Jocelynne A.
Women and Magna Carta: A Treaty for Rights or Wrongs?
(Palgrave, 2016).
Hardback. Top corner bumped, otherwise very good+. vii + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C15650
Keywords: 9781137562340, Magna Carta, women's rights, history, natural rights, human rights
Price £37.95.
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McNeill, ed, Maureen.
Gender and Expertise:
(Free Association Books, 1987).
Paperback. Newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, otherwise very good. vi + 266pp. Order No. NSBK-C9659
Keywords: 0946960267, women, woman, women's studies, twentieth century, feminism, feminists, sexual difference, femininity, gender, history of ideas, test-tube babies, science, technology
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Wilson, S.J.
Women, the Family and the Economy:
(McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd, 2nd edit., 1981).
Paperback. Covers slightly chipped, otherwise very good. 194pp. Order No. NSBK-C10517
Keywords: 0075488353, women, women and work, women workers, women's studies, women's history, gender, employment, Britain, British, twentieth century, 20th, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, careers, labour, labor, sex, salary, salaries, wages, economy, economic, women's work, family, families
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