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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Kramer, Ann.
Land Girls and their Impact:
(Remember When, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xxiii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C14607
Keywords: 1844680290, Ann Kramer, land girls, landgirls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Second World War, World War II, Two, women and work, working women, Lady Gertrude Denman, Women's Timber Corps, WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, employment, jobs, pay, oral history, courting, courtship, Women's Land Army, Women's Forestry Corps, women's history
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Martindale, C. C.
Daughters of the Cross:
(The Month. Times Press, 1971).
Edited by Thomas Corbishley. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, and creasing to spine, otherwise good+. xvi + 138pp. Order No. NSBK-C6054
Keywords: B0007ANZ64, women, woman, women's history, cross, Christianity, Christians, religion, religious, nuns, nunneries, Daughters of the Cross, Belgian, Belgium, Mother Foundress, congregations, convents
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Nunn, Joan.
Fashion in Costume, 1200 - 1980:
(Herbert Press, reprint, 1985).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly faded dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C8604
Keywords: 0906969379, fashion, costume, costumes, clothes, clothing, history, men, women, men's fashion, women's fashion, masculinity, femininity, costume, Britain, British, England, English, dress, attire, fashionable
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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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Collis, Maurice.
Nancy Astor: an Informal Biography
(Faber & Faber, 1960).
Hardback. Cloth worn especially at corners and edges, otherwise good. 235pp. Order No. NSBK-C1258
Keywords: B0000CKKMP, Nancy Astor, politics, politician, M. P., women and politics, Plymouth Sutton, Conservative party, Tory, party politics, House of Commons, Houses of Parliament, Britain, British, history, England, English, biography, women's history, twentieth century
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Elizabeth, Charlotte.
The Works of Charlotte Elizabeth: Passing Thoughts; Falsehood and Truth
(Baker & Scribner, 1846).
The works "Passing Thoughts" & "Falsehood and Truth" only, by Charlotte Elizabeth (Tonna). Very scarce. Contains (mysteriously) one extraneous page - from "Conformity", another of Elizabeth's works which is not included. Hardback. Small, with pieces missing from the gilt-decorated spine, corners worn, some light foxing, otherwise good, tight. 105; x + 137pp. Order No. NSBK-C5103
Keywords: B0008B8N6Y, Charlotte Elizabeth, Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna, history, women writers, woman, women's literature, Britain, British, England, English, nineteenth century, Victorian, religion, religious, works, writings, purity, sentiment, morality, female
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Wiencek, Henry.
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves and the Creation of America
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004).
Paperback. Fine. ix + 404pp. Order No. NSBK-A10045
Keywords: 0374529515, America, USA, United States, George Washington, Presidents, slaves, slavery, black history, African-American, eighteenth century, Virginia
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Tayler, J. Lionel.
The Nature of Woman:
(A. C. Fifield, 1912).
Hardback. Covers edgeworn, first pages foxed, otherwise a good+ copy. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C12281
Keywords: B000IV13WU, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Edwardian, twentieth century, 20th
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Faithfull, Lilian M.
In The House Of My Pilgrimage:
(Chatto and Windus, 1924).
Hardback. Some light wear to cloth and rubbing to edges and spine ends, light foxing, otherwise a good working copy. 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15770
Keywords: B000KQYYPG, stored in antiquarian, history, women's history, Lilian M. Faithfull, autobiographies, autobiography, Cheltenham Ladies College, Somerville, Oxford
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