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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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
Price £46.00.
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Jenkins, Garry.
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A10325
Keywords: 028306238X, Daniel Day-Lewis, actors, plays, stage, dramas, biographies, biography, biographical, history, twentieth century, 20th, Ireland, Irish, lives, life histories, life history
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Sambrook, James.
William Cobbett:
(RKP, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly chipped dw. xi + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-A5565
Keywords: 071007560X, William Cobbett, nineteenth century, life history, life histories, biographies, biography, radical, radicals, radicalism, Rural Rides
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Anderson, Mosa.
Henry Joseph Wilson: Fighter for Freedom, 1833 - 1914
(James Clarke, 1953).
Foreword by Lord Pethick-Lawrence. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library markings. A little wear to edges, otherwise very good. 86pp. Order No. NSBK-A13638
Keywords: B000W6QBW8, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biographies, biography, Henry Joseph Wilson, Josephine Butler, reformers, social reform, Holmfirth, social welfare, Ireland, Opium Commission, Home Rule, Contagious Diseases Acts, Lord Pethick-Lawrence, politics, political, Victorian, Edwardian, 19th century, nineteenth century
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Enock, Esther E.
Frances Ridley Havergal: The Christian Poetess
(Pickering & Inglis, rpt., 1957).
Suitable for children. Hardback. Lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in worn, slightly torn dustwrapper. 95pp. Order No. NSBK-C5721
Keywords: 0720821630, Christainity, Christian, religion, religious, poets, poetess, poetesses, poets, poems, poem, hymns, hymn, Frances Ridley Havergal, literature, women's history, biography, biographical, life history, life histories, biographies, nineteenth century, Victorian, Britain, British, history, England, English, Oakhampton, Leamington
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Myler, Patrick.
Gentleman Jim Corbett: The Truth Behind a Boxing Legend
(Robson Books Ltd, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in slightly marked, dented dustwrapper. xvi + 243pp. Order No. NSBK-J14272
Keywords: 9781861052124, history, boxing, boxers, Jim Corbett, sport, sports, heavyweight boxers, biography, biographies, fighting, fighters, USA, American, United States of America
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Gittings, Robert & Manton Jo.
Dorothy Wordsworth:
(Clarendon, 1985).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in dustwrapper. x + 318pp. Order No. NSBK-C4131
Keywords: 0198185197, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Wordsworth, biography, biographies, women writers, women diarists, regency, Romantics, Romanticism, Lake District, Cumbria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, literary, literature, Thomas de Quincey, Cumbria, England, English, Britain, British, Northern, history, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Sara Hutchinson
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Hammond, J. L and Hammond, Barbara.
Lord Shaftesbury:
(Constable and Co, 1923).
In the series Makers of the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Basil Williams. Hardback. Cloth faded/worn/marked, otherwise a good working copy. `x + 313pp. Order No. NSBK-A6007
Keywords: B0006AJFC8, Lord Shaftesbury, politics, Victorian, nineteenth century, biographies, biographical, biography, men, life histories, life history, lunacy, mental health, philanthropy, Peel, mines, mine reform, mining, factories, industry, industrialisation, Ten Hours Bill, public health, Anton Ashley Cooper, Ashley, Earl of Shaftesbury
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Irvine, William.
Apes, Angels and Victorians: A Joint Biography of Darwin and Huxley
(Readers Union/Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1956).
Hardback. Good+ in soiled dustwrapper. 278pp. Order No. NSBK-A12045
Keywords: B0000CJ6RW, apes, angels, Victorians, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Charles Darwin, Aldous Huxley, science, scientists
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