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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Butt, J. and Clarke, I.F. eds.
The Victorians and Social Protest: A Symposium
(David and Charles/Archon, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 249pp. Order No. NSBK-A13449
Keywords: 071535776X, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, social protest, Robert Owen, O'Connor, Ireland, Irish, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Dickens, Self-Help, William Morris, Bernard Shaw, class, land
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Gordon, Eleanor & Breitenbach, Esther, eds.
The World is Ill-Divided: Women's Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
(Edinburgh UP, 1990).
Paperback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpaper, slight crease to front cover, otherwise very good. viii + 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C15722
Keywords: 9780748602124, women and work, Scotland, Victorian, Edwardian, Glasgow, waged work, agriculture, prostitution, domestic labour, printing trade, sweated trades, textile industry, Edinburgh, Scottish women's history, Scottish history, working women, scots
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Curran, James.
The Future of the Left:
(Polity Press, 1984).
Paperback. Very good. xv + 332pp. Order No. NSBK-A12737
Keywords: 0745600042, the left, politics, political, politicians, government, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Smith, Joan.
Femmes de Siecle: Stories from the '90s: Women Writing at the End of Two Centuries
(Chatto & Windus, 1992).
Paperback. Ink inscription to fly leaf, otherwise good. 303pp. Order No. NSBK-C6905
Keywords: 0701139846, women writers, woman writers, women's writing, New women, New woman, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th, femmes de siecle
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Malins, Edward.
Samuel Palmer's Italian Honeymoon:
(OUP, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xiii + 130pp. Order No. NSBK-A3625
Keywords: 0192111884, Samuel Palmer, honeymoon, art, Victorian, Italy, Italian, Rome, Naples, John Linnell, Hannah Linnell, history, letters, etchings
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Joyce, P.W. ed.
Ballads of Irish Chivalry:
(Talbot Press, 1908).
New Era Library. Hardback. Some internal cracking at spine area. Ex library with loss and tears to spine cover, cloth browned and worn at edges. Internally good. x + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A15018
Keywords: B0006DC3GU, ballads, ballad, chivalry, Ireland, Irish, poems, poem, poetry, history, literature
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Benn, Melissa.
What Should We Tell Our Daughters: The Pleasures and Pressures of Growing Up Female
(Murray, 2013).
Paperback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 343pp. Order No. NSBK-C15506
Keywords: 9781848546271, feminism, feminist, women's rights, women's history, female, Britain, British, twenty-first century
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Sackett, Terence.
British Life A Century Ago: Images from the Francis Frith Collection
(Frith Book Company Limited, rpt., 2001).
Richly illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Very good. 133pp. Order No. NSBK-A12072
Keywords: 1859372139, photos, photography, photographs, Francis Frith, photographers, photography, images, pictures, Edwardian, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Mill, John Stuart.
Autobiography of John Stuart Mill:
(Signet, 1964).
Paperback. Good. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A11000
Keywords: Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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