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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McQuiston, Liz.
Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
(Phaidon Press, 1997).
Foreword by Germaine Greer. Hardback. Very good in faded,slightly chipped dustwrapper, large format. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15975
Keywords: 9780714836195, women's movement, history, feminism, emancipation, Germaine Greer
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Hurley, Jennifer A, ed.
Women's Rights: Great Speeches in History
(Greenhaven Press, 2002).
Hardback. Library sticker to front board, a little waviness to later pages caused by damp, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C15663
Keywords: 9780737707731, women's speeches, feminism, USA, women's rights, suffragettes, human rights, civil rights
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Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature: 1880-1920
(Blandford Press, 1970).
From the series 'History and Literature'. Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A9674
Keywords: 0713736054, literature, literary, history, historical, Great Depression of Agriculture, Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, Liberal Party, suffragette movement, First World War, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th, 19th
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Black, Clementina ed.
Married Women's Work: Being the Report of an Enquiry Undertaken by the Women's Industrial Council
(G. Bell, 1915).
Hardback. Original red cloth slightly faded and edgeworn, otherwise very good. vi + 292pp. Order No. NSBK-C15617
Keywords: married women, work, industry, Women's Industrial Council, wages, employment, working conditions, family, poverty, Clementina Black, suffragists, suffragist, suffrage, Votes for Women, suffragettes, Britain, England, English, Britain, economic, social history, antiquarian
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Women's Freedom League, .
Report of the Annual Conference, February 1908: and Balance Sheet, Oct. - Dec. 1907
(Portrayer, 2002 facs. of 1908 text).
Number 2 in the Open Archive Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 16pp. Order No. NSBK-C5190
Keywords: 0954263251, woman suffrage, suffragettes, women's suffrage, Britain, British, England, English, Votes for Women, enfranchisement, Portrayer, Open Archive Series, women's movement, politics, Edwardian, twentieth century, Women's Freedom League, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, conference, conferences, Cicely Hamilton, Teresa Billington-Greig, Charlotte Despard, reports, documents, sources, protest, social protest, booklet
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Butler, Rupert.
As They Saw Her: Emmeline Pankhurst
(George G. Harrap, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf. Small tea stain to page edges, otherwise good in browned, slightly creased dustwrapper. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C74
Keywords: 0245599703, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights. womens' movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edwardian, biographies, Pankhursts
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. Very good in soiled, slightly torn dustwrapper. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Smyth, Ethel.
As Time Went On:
(Longmans, Green, 1936).
Hardback. Black cloth with gilt lettering slightly rubbed and slightly marked at back, otherwise a good solid copy. xi + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C16046
Keywords: Ethel Smyth, autobiography, autobiographies, history, letters, women, literature, Victorian, women's suffrage, women composers, music, suffragettes
Price £25.00.
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Dane, Clemence.
The Women's Side:
(Herbert Jenkins, 1926).
Hardback. A little fading / soiling to red cloth, especially at spine, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15928
Keywords: B00085URVY, Clemence Dane, women, antiquarian, suffragettes, education, votes, woman question, marriage
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