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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Gillen, Mollie.
The Wheel of Things: A Biography of L. M. Montgomery. Author of Anne of Green Gables
(Harrap, 1976).
Hardback. Good in edge-worn slightly torn dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-C6472
Keywords: 0245529713, L. M. Mongomery, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, biographical, women writers, women's writing, Canada, Canadian, literature, literary, fiction, Maud Montgomery, Clifton, Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Ephraim Weber, Saskatchewan, George Boyd MacMillan, women writers, women's writing, women's history, Ewan Macdonald
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Simpson, Patricia.
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665:
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C15485
Keywords: 0773516417, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Montreal, Canada, Canadian, religion, religious, Congregation de Notre-Dame de Montreal
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Morton, Desmond & Granatstein, J. L.
Victory, 1945: Canadians from War to Peace
(Phyllis Bruce, Harper Collins, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-A2856
Keywords: 0002550695, Canada, war, World War II, Second World War, military, military history, victory, peace, WW II, WW 2
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Gagnon, Serge.
Man and His Past: The Nature and Role of Historiography
(Harvest House, 1982).
Translated by Margaret Heap. Paperback. Fine. vii + 79pp. Order No. NSBK-A11092
Keywords: 0887722156, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, historiography, history of ideas, sociologists, sociology, philosophy, philosophers, Canada, Canadian, French-Canadian, French, France
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Morris, Audrey Y.
Gentle Pioneers: Five Nineteenth-Century Canadians
(Hodder and Stoughton, rpt., 1973).
Paperback. Pages slightly browned, otherwise good. xii + 253pp. Order No. NSBK-A13080
Keywords: 0340026952, Canada, Canadians, pioneers, Morris, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Samuel Strickland, Mrs Moodie, Sheriff of Hastings, Douro, Susanna Moodie, John W. Dunbar Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, Thomas Traill, Traills
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Gorman, Daniel.
Imperial Citizenship: Empire and the Question of Belonging
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Brand new, fine in dustwrapper. xi + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-A14636
Keywords: 9780719075292, imperial citizenship, Empire, history, belonging, imperialism, Britain, British, England, English, United Kingdom, UK, colonies, colonialism, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, national identity, Great War, Boer War, Lionel Curtis, John Buchan, Arnold White, Richard Jebb, Thomas Sedgwick, India, emigration, immigration
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Constantine, Stephen, ed.
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding, 1913-1916
(Ryburn Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. A slight waviness across tops of pages (the effects of minor damp), otherwise very good. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7418
Keywords: 1853310182, E. J. Harding, letters, correspondence, diaries, twentieth century, travel, the British Empire, Imperialism, 20th, Australia, New Zealand, South African, New Foundland, Canada, Canadian, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, colonies, colonialism, colony
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Morris, Audrey Y.
Gentle Pioneers: Five Nineteenth-Century Canadians
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1968).
Hardback. Very good in chipped dustwrapper. 253pp. Order No. NSBK-A5045
Keywords: 0340026952, Canada, Canadian, pioneers, history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Stricklands, Samuel Strickland, Hamilton township, Douro, Sheriff of Hastings, Mrs Moodie
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Kinnear, Mary.
Margaret McWilliams: An Interwar Feminist:
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1991).
Signed by the author. Hardback. Very good in faded dustwrapper. xviii + 210pp. Order No. NSBK-C3899
Keywords: 0773508570, Margaret McWilliams, feminism, feminist, women, women's history, woman, biography, Canada, Canadian, First World War, World War 1, Great War, Canadian Federation of University Women, academic, interwar, biographies, biography
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