Sweeney, Patricia E.
Biographies of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography
(Santa Barbara, 1990).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A11014
Keywords: 0874360706, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, bibliography, bibliographies
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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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Owen, Frank.
Tempestuous Journey: Lloyd George His Life and Times
(Hutchinson, 1954).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good+ in heavily worn and torn dustwrapper. 784pp. Order No. NSBK-A13053
Keywords: B0000CJ0TW, Lloyd George, politics, political, politicians, government, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, Prime Ministers, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Notable Sussex Women: 580 Biographical Sketches
(Hastings Press, 2008).
Hardback. Fine. 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C13898
Keywords: 1904109152, Sussex, West Sussex, East Sussex, history, women, women's history, biography, biographies, famous women
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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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Hughes, H.P.
Mr T. J. Down's Bands: A Short History of the Origin and Development of the Orchestra and Military Band, Together with a Biography of the Late Mr. T. J. Down
(Percival Pearse, Warrington, 1905).
Hardback. Frontispiece partly detached. Endpapers a little soiled. Some wear to boards, especially at edges and spine ends, otherwise good+, a nice solid copy. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-A13787
Keywords: B000XJ6X18, Warrington, bands, bandsmen, Thomas John Down, memoir, band, orchestra, military bands, history, music, concerts, North-West, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, biography, biographies, string bands, photography, camera, musicians, Stockton Heath, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Albright, Madeleine.
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
(Macmillan, 2003).
With Bill Woodward. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper with mark left by sticker. xiv + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-C13058
Keywords: 140503369X, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, politics, political, politicians, government, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Wiener, Joel.
William Lovett:
(MUP, 1989).
Lives of the Left. Paperback. Some annotation in pen not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A12784
Keywords: 0719021731, William Lovett, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Chartism, Chartists, politics, political, politicians, government
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Barnett, Henrietta.
Canon Barnett: His Life, Work and Friends
(John Murray, 1918).
With newspaper articles pasted to endpapers, plus a typed and signed letter by Henrietta Barnett. Complete in two volumes. Hardbacks. Minor yellow highlighting, lacking spine covers.Good working copies, vol I firm; vol II firm also though with splitting inside at spine. xxiv + 302; xii + 415pp. Order No. NSBK-A15635
Keywords: Henrietta Barnett, Canon Barnett, Samuel Augustus Barnett, housing, social conditions, Octavia Hill, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, Edwardian, biography, biographies, social reform, philanthropy, Toynbee, state relief, social problems, poverty
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Sandys, Celia.
Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive:
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1999).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvi + 233pp. Order No. NSBK-A13173
Keywords: 0002570173, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Winston Churchill, Boer War, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Prime Minister, South Africa, Cape Town
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