Thompson, Laurence.
The Enthusiasts: A Biography of John and Katharine Bruce Glasier
(Victor Gollancz, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in rubbed and faded dustrwapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A312
Keywords: 9780575006553, John Bruce Glasier, Katharine Bruce Glasier, socialism, biography, biographies, labour movement, labor, socialists, history, Scotland, Scottish, ILP, Independent Labour Party, Britain, British, nineteenth century, twentieth century, poltics, political, Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald
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Lyons, A. Neil.
Robert Blatchford: the Sketch of a Personality: an Estimate of Some Achievements
(Clarion Press, 1910).
Hardback. Frontispiece portrait loose, otherwise good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A15996
Keywords: Robert Blatchford, Clarion Press, biography, biographies, history
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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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Read, Donald and Glasgow, Eric.
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist
(Edward Arnold, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, light sellotape marks to cloth, otherwise good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10350
Keywords: B0000CKYZG, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Irish, Irishman, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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Hickman, Katie.
Daughters of Britannia: The Lives and Times of Diplomatic Wives
(Flamingo, 2000).
Paperback. Very good+. xxviii + 321pp. Order No. NSBK-C9955
Keywords: 0006387802, lives, Diplomatic Wives, life histories, life history, Britain, British, England, England, history, social biography, biographies, biographical, diplomacy, politics, women writers, overseas, postings, ambassadresses, ambassadors
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Burton, Hester.
Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891:
(John Murray, 1949).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. Some sun-fading and cracking intermally at spine, and a little wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C1250
Keywords: B0006D73UQ, Barbara Bodichon, Barbara Leigh Smith, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, women's rights, Pre-Raphaelite, law, marriage, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history education, suffrage, marriage reform, biography, biographies, Hitchin, Girton, women's movement, Victorian, nineteenth century, Votes for Women, antiquarian
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Acland, Alice.
Caroline Norton:
(Constable, 1948).
Hardback. Light foxing to endpapers, minor rubbing to corners, otherwise very good. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-A15886
Keywords: B0007G4CKG, Caroline Norton, history, biography, biographies, women, literature, literary, nineteenth century, stored in hall
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Adams, Elmer C. & Foster, Warren Dunham.
Heroines of Modern Progress:
(Macmillan, reissue, 1921).
Hardback. Good. 324pp. Order No. NSBK-C5220
Keywords: women's history, Jane Adams, Frances E. Willard, Elizabeth Fry, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Florence Nightingale, heroines, Julia Ward Howe, biography, biographies
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Adams, Kathleen.
George Eliot: A Brief Biography
(Nuneaton Borough Council, 1970).
Illustrated by William J Adams. In pamphlet form. Booklet. Covers browned, otherwise good. 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C5958
Keywords: 0950160601, Kathleen Adams, George Eliot, Victorian, nineteenth century, women writers, woman writer, biography, biographical, life history, life histories, biographies, pamphlet, booklet, stored with booklets
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Horne, Alastair.
Macmillan, 1894-1956:
(Macmillan, 1988).
Volume I of the Official Biography. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xix + 537pp. Order No. NSBK-A9363
Keywords: 0333276914, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life histories, politics, political, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, politicians, Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, Tories, Tory, Conservatives, statesmen, statesman
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