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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Allen, Vivien.
Lady Trader: A Biography of Mrs Sarah Heckford
(Collins, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in soiled and chipped dustwrapper. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C4496
Keywords: 0002160730, Mrs Sarah Heckford, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, woman traveler, The East London Hospital, Childrens' Hospital, Nathaniel Heckford, India, South Africa, Transvaal, Pretoria, Rain Queen, Loboda, Modjadje, Boer War, biography, biographies, women's history, British, Britain nineteenth century
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Forster, Robert & Ranum, Orest, eds.
Medicine and Society in France: Selections from the Annales
(Johns Hopkins UP, 1980).
Volume 6 only. Paperback. Good. ix + 176pp. Order No. NSBK-B4490
Keywords: 0801823064, medicine, medical, history, France, French, Annales, society, Annaliste, Annalistes, healing, ancien regime, eighteenth century, Enlightenment, Arlette Farge, Jean-Pierre Goubert, diseases, illness, popular medicine, popular culture
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International Labour Office, .
The War and Women's Employment: The Experience of the United Kingdom and the United States
(International Labour Office, Montreal, 1946).
Paperback. Covers torn and soiled, internally good. iii + 287pp. Order No. NSBK-C15487
Keywords: B071FC6HWJ, United Kingdom, Britain, British, England, English, USA, United States, employmemt, jobs, work, women's work, women and work, gender, twentieth century, 20th century
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Crawford, Patricia ed.
Exploring Women's Past:
(George Allen and Unwin, 1983).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise good+. 215pp. Order No. NSBK-C8716
Keywords: 9780868616049, women, woman, women's history, nuns, Western Australia, Victorian, spinsters, spinsterhood, prostitutes, prostitution
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Stanford, Peter.
The She-Pope: a Quest for the Truth Behind the Mystery of Pope Joan
(Heinemann, 1998).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C2661
Keywords: 0434024589, Pope Joan, popery, Catholicism, Catholic, priesthood, legend, women, history, women's history, religion
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Leach, William.
True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society
(Wesleyan UP, 2nd edit., 1989).
Paperback. Very good+. xxiv + 449pp. Order No. NSBK-C13255
Keywords: 9780819562272, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminist
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Forster, Margaret.
Significant Sisters: The Grassroots Active Feminism, 1839-1939
(Penguin, rpt, 1986).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise good. xvi + 351pp. Order No. NSBK-C734
Keywords: 0140081720, women's history, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, sisterhood, women's rights, USA, American, America, Elizabeth Blackwell, Jospehine Butler, Caroline Norton, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffrage, woman suffrage, feminist movement, women's movement
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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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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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