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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Abrams, Fran.
Freedom's Cause: The Lives of the Suffragettes
(Profile Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-A15642
Keywords: 9781861974259, history, suffragettes, Votes for Women
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Hause, Steven C.
Hubertine Auclert: The French Suffragette
(Yale University Press, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C7515
Keywords: 0300038453, France, French, Europe, Europeans, history, women, women's history, women's movement, women's rights, rights for women, Women's suffrage, politics, political, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 20th, twentieth, Edwardian, Hubertine Auclert, feminism, feminists, Paris, Parisian, suffragettes, votes for women, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, lives, life history, enfranchisement, woman suffrage
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Suffragettes, .
Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Shield in a Square
(Portrayer, 2010).
Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The image displays the words "Votes for Women" on a white sash in the middle of a purple and green shield. The badge itself is square in shape. 25mm by 25mm. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15005
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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Suffragettes, .
Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Circle
(Portrayer Publishers, 2010).
Circular badge: 2.5cm in diameter. Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The words "Votes for Women" on a cream background are surrounded by black and green shapes. Brand new in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15003
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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McQuiston, Liz.
Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
(Phaidon Press, 1997).
Foreword by Germaine Greer. Hardback. Very good in faded,slightly chipped dustwrapper, large format. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15975
Keywords: 9780714836195, women's movement, history, feminism, emancipation, Germaine Greer
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Hardwick, Joan.
An Immodest Violet: the Life of Violet Hunt
(Andre Deutsch, 1990).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xvi + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C6809
Keywords: 0233986391, Joan Hardwick, Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford, novelists, women novelists, women writers, free love, sexuality, biographies, biography, Ford Hermann Hueffer, feminist, feminism, feminists, Ezra Pound, suffrage, suffragettes, woman's suffrage, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, literary
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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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Three Modern Pankhurst Badges, .
The Pankhursts: Photographic Images of Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst on Three Attractive Plated Badges
(Portrayer Publisher, 2004).
3 X badges with a high gloss finish and secure safety-pin fittings to the rear. Featuring period images (photographic) of the faces of Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst and daughters Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst. Circular-shaped. 25mm diameter. Presented inside a small poly-bag. Badges. New, in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8753
Keywords: Votes For Women, suffrage, woman suffrage, pin, badge, pin back, pinback, pins, suffragette, suffragettes, suffragist, suffragists, women, women's history, social history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, jewellery, Sylvia Pankhurst, Emmeline Pankhurst, Christabel Pankhurst, the Pankhursts, Pankhurst, badges, Edwardian, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera
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Field, Jean.
Mary Dormer Harris: The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian
(Brewin Books, 2002).
Special Hardback edition of 250 copies signed by the author. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C7148
Keywords: 1858581990, Mary Dormer Harris, history, historians, Jean Field, Warwickshire, Warwick, suffragists, women's rights, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, women writers, women's writing, women's history, suffragettes, suffrage movement, 19th, 20th, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives
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