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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Taylor, Joan.
Mary Martha of Stanford:
(Joan Taylor, 1975).
Booklet. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, marked, otherwise good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A13942
Keywords: B001DCPEZ0, Mary Martha of Stanford, Mrs Sherwood, history, children's authors, women writers, Teme Valley, Stanford Rectory, Mary Martha Butt, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, booklet
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Porter, Mrs Horace.
Mary Sumner: her Life and Work
(Mothers' Union, 3rd edition, 1950).
Founder of the Mothers' Union. Hardback. Blank frontispiece page lacks corner, edges of boards rubbed, otherwise very good. xii + 109pp. Order No. NSBK-C4114
Keywords: B000X65TWK, Mothers' Union, motherhood, history, biography, biographies, life stories, Mary Sumner, Winchester, nineteenth century, Victorian
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MacNalty, Sir Arthur S.
Mary Queen of Scots: The Daughter of Debate
(Johnson Publications, 1971).
Paperback. Covers soiled and edgeworn, otherwise good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C13830
Keywords: 0853070555, Mary Queen of Scots, Queens, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, sixteenth century
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Jameson, Storm.
The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell:
(Macmillan, 1945).
Hardback. Boards slightly soiled, otherwise good. 228pp. Order No. NSBK-C31
Keywords: B0000CL3CO, Mary Hervey Russell, Russell, journal
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Smith, Clifford P.
Sketches from the Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science:
(Christian Science Publ., 1934).
Historical and Biographical Papers Series. Paperback. Covers slightly thumbed, otherwise good. vi + 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C2053
Keywords: B0006AMHUA, Mary Baker Eddy, Eddy, Christian Science, Christian Scientist, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, religion, women's history
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Livingstone, W.P.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
(Hodder & Stoughton, Popular edition, 34th edition, 1931).
With illustrations. Scottish factory girl, 1848-1915, and her missionary work in the tropics. Hardback. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, splitting to tops spine edge (3 inches), a little spotting to boards, otherwise good/firm. x + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C370
Keywords: B000855ZWA, tropics, Mary Slessor, Slessor, missionary, Scotland, pioneer, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, women traveler, missionaries
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Gilchrist, Mrs.
Mary Lamb:
(W. H. Allen, new edition, 1889).
Eminent Women Series. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with some wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-A14457
Keywords: B002B9FKZS, Mary Lamb, women writers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, history, literature, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism
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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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