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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Van Every, Jo.
Heterosexual Women Changing the Family: Refusing to Be a Wife
(Taylor & Francis, 1995).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C14018
Keywords: 0748402837, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, sexuality, twentieth century, 20th, family, families, sexual roles, household, anti-sexist, households, domestic labour, marriage, mothers, mothering, feminism, feminists
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Miller, Stuart T.
Sunderland: Past and Present
(Waterloo Press, 1977).
With photographs. Booklet. Covers slightly faded and creased at spine, otherwise very good. 44pp. Order No. NSBK-A16103
Keywords: 0950888001, booklets, Sunderland, Newcastle, North East, history, illustrated, pictures, photographs, Old Sunderland, social history
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Garnett, Anne.
Fields of Young Corn:
(Tabb House, 1989).
Being the continuation of "Caught from Time". Hardback. Ex library with usual library stickers, but good in dustwrapper. ix + 80pp. Order No. NSBK-C2104
Keywords: 0907018661, West Quantocks Country, Somerset, Morecombelake, Dorset, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Tims, Margaret.
Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860 - 1935: a Centenary Study
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A8955
Keywords: B0000CKYPE, Jane Addams, Hull House, women's history, Chicago, American women, USA, United States of America, social work, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, pacifism, pacifists, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winners, social reformers, philanthropy, philanthropists
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Storkey, Elaine.
What's Right With Feminism:
(SPCK, 1985).
A Third Way Book. Paperback. Fine. 186pp. Order No. NSBK-C13647
Keywords: 0281041806, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Christian, religion, religious
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Vellacott, Jo.
From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall
(Mc-Gill-Queen's UP, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, page edges slightly soiled, else a good + copy in slightly sun-faded dustwrapper. xvii + 518pp. Order No. NSBK-C12415
Keywords: 9780773509580, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, Catherine Marshall, Liberal, Labour, Labor, politics, political, politicians, government
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Sander, Kathleen Waters.
The Business of Charity: The Woman's Exchange Movement, 1832-1900
(Illinois UP, 1998).
Paperback. Fine. xi + 165pp. Order No. NSBK-C12317
Keywords: 0252067037, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Woman's Exchange Movement, business, charity, philanthropic, philanthropy
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Nicolson, Nigel.
Portrait of a Marriage:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, rpt, 1990).
Illustrated edition. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. pp. Order No. NSBK-A8505
Keywords: 0297830023, Vita Sackville-West, Harold Nicolson, biography, autobiography, Britain, British, England, English, history, twentieth century, 20th century, Nicolson, marriage, writers
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Corfe, Tom, ed.
The Buildings of Sunderland, 1814 - 1914:
(Tyne and Wear County Council Museums, 1983).
Booklet. Very good. 32pp. Order No. NSBK-A16100
Keywords: 9780905974132, stored with booklets, architecture, buildings, booklets, architectural, history, North East, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, Newcastle, housing, towns, urban, urbanisation, Victorian, nineteenth century
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