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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Romero, Patricia W.
E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical
(Yale UP, rpt, 1990).
Paperback. Covers and page edges soiled, otherwise good. xv + 334pp. Order No. NSBK-C397
Keywords: 0300044828, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, Votes for Women, women's rights, women's politics, Pankhurst, Edwardian, England, Britain, history, English, British
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John, Angela V.
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869 - 1955
(MUP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine, as new. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-D14266
Keywords: 9780719080159, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, Evelyn Sharp, biography, biographies, children's authors, women writers, Henry W. Nevinson, schoolgirl fiction, Manchester Guardian, Weimar Germany, famine, Soviet Russia, journalists, journalism, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th, Rebel Women, Angela V. John
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Harrison, Shirley.
Sylvia Pankhurst: A Crusading Life 1882-1960
(Aurum Press, 2003).
Hardback. Small stain on top front edge and top of dustwrapper, otherwise very good. viii + 291pp. Order No. NSBK-D7899
Keywords: 9781854109057, Pankhursts, Pugh, politics, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, militants, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th, Sylvia, Christabel, women's history, Emmeline, the vote, women's rights, the women's movement, emancipation, woman, woman's, womans
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Mitchell, David.
The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity
(Jonathan Cape, 1967).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper. 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A8922
Keywords: 0224611917, Pankhursts, Pankhurst, Christabel, Emmeline, Sylvia, Adela, suffrage, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, suffragette, protest, political women, David Mitchell, politics, Votes for Women, women's movement, Britain, British, England, English, suffrage question, post-women's suffrage, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union
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Shanley, Mary Lyndon and Narayan, Uma, eds.
Reconstucting Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives
(Polity Press, 1997).
Paperback. Fine. xxi + 225pp. Order No. NSBK-C12432
Keywords: 0745617972, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, political theory, politics, history of ideas, twentieth century
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Edwardian Suffragette Postcard, Suffragettes Original.
What! You Think a Man Could Do it as Well?:
(Woman Suffrage Series, unposted).
Bespectacled child reads the Daily Mail. Rear is blank (card has neither been written on nor posted). Postcard. Some wear at edges & corners, rear a little browned with age and slightly marked. Otherwise good+. pp. Order No. NSBK-C3711
Keywords: Edwardian, suffragettes, suffragette postcards, England, Britain, Votes for Women, suffrage, English, British, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics
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Bryson, Valerie.
Feminist Political Theory: an Introduction
(Macmillan, 1992).
Paperback. Covers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. xiii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C2340
Keywords: 0333516362, feminism, politics, women and politics, political theory, history of ideas, political
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Scott, Anne Firor and Scott, Andrew MacKay.
One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage
(Illinois UP, rpt., 1982).
Hardback. Scratches to front cover, otherwise very good. x + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C12628
Keywords: 0252010116, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, suffrage, suffragettes, politics, votes, emancipation, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th
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Nixon, Edna.
Mary Wollstonecraft: her Life and Times
(J.M. Dent, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in slightly worn dustwrapper. xii + 271pp. Order No. NSBK-C2069
Keywords: 046003975X, women writers, women's politics, Godwin, Vindication, women's rights, French Revolution, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman writer, feminism, feminists, feminist
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