Wilson, David Alec and Macarthur, David Wilson.
Carlyle in Old Age 1865-1881:
(Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1934).
Hardback. Covers soiled and top of spine slightly torn, internally good. vi + 488pp. Order No. NSBK-A11865
Keywords: B001OW4ODC, Thomas Carlyle, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, old age
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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
Price £18.00.
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Sampson, Fiona.
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
(Profile Books, 2018).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C15752
Keywords: 9781781255285, women wrtiers, women, history, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, biography, biographies
Price £8.50.
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Noakes, Vivien.
Edward Lear:
(Fontana, rpt, 1979).
Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise good+. 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C6721
Keywords: 0006356087, Edward Lear, male writers, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, biography, biographies
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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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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
Price £25.00.
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Salter, Elizabeth.
Edith Sitwell:
(Bloomsbury, rpt., 1988).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper, large format. 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C5422
Keywords: 1870630610, Edith Sitwell, women writers, woman writer, literature, novels, novelist, poets, poetry, poems, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell, Ultimate Good, Elizabeth Salter
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Inglis, Brian.
Roger Casement:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1973).
Hardback. A little scribbling to front of dustwrapper (which is protected by green mylar), otherwise good+. 448pp. Order No. NSBK-A14278
Keywords: 0340126817, Ireland, Irish, biography, biographies, Roger Casement, history, Amazon, Sinn Fein, Congo, Ulster
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Nicolson, Nigel.
Portrait of a Marriage:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, rpt, 1990).
Illustrated edition. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A8505
Keywords: 0297830023, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, biography, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th century, Nicolson, marriage, writers
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Holmes, Martin.
Proud Northern Lady: Lady Anne Clifford, 1590-1676
(Phillimore, corrected reprint, 1984).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. 181pp. Order No. NSBK-C3168
Keywords: 0850332257, Anne Clifford, Lady Anne Clifford, seventeenth century, Knole, Wiltshire, Inigo Jones, biography, Countess of Dorset and Pembroke, Civil War, Britain, England, British, English, history, women's history
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