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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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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
Price £13.00.
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Wharncliffe, Lord, James, ed.
The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu:
(Richard Bentley, second edition, revised, 1837).
Volume I only of three. Hardback. Nicely bound in leather - bright and firm. Gilt bands, titles and decoration to spine. Gilt edging, marble-effect page edges. A little scuffing / marking to leather. Else very good. lxiv + 402pp. Order No. NSBK-C16067
Keywords: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Bute, eighteenth century, 18th, history, letters, works, correspondence, literature, women writers, Lord Wharncliffe, Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Turkish, inoculation, smallpox, vaccines, vaccine, antiquarian section under W
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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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Howard, Cecil.
Mary Kingsley:
(Hutchinson, 2nd impression, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C448
Keywords: B0007J1T72, Mary Kingsley, woman traveller, women travellers, woman traveler, women travelers, Victorian, nineteenth century, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, African, history, West Africa
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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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Jacobs, Diane.
Her Own Woman: the Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
(Abacus, 2001).
Paperback. Very good. 333pp. Order No. NSBK-A14655
Keywords: 0349114617, Mary Wollstonecraft, biography, biographies, feminism, feminists, history, 18th century, eighteenth century
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Miss Mary Gawthorpe: Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe, 1881 - 1973
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image of Mary Gawthorpe is taken from a contemporary photographic postcard, c. 1911. She was a leading suffragette from Yorkshire, who became the full-time organiser of the WSPU in Leeds in 1906. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14483
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, suffragette art, art, arts, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, Mary Gawthorpe, Leeds, Yorkshire, WSPU
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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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Ridley, Annie E.
Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education:
(Longmans, Green, 1895).
Hardback. Some light wear to the edges, spotting to early pages, otherwise good, firm. viii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C5115
Keywords: B07FT3XRFG, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Public Day School for Girls, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, English, British, England, Britain, training, training colleges, higher education, adult education, female, university education, universities, Annie E. Ridley
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