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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Burkhasuer, Jude, ed.
Glasgow Girls: Women in Art and Design, 1880-1920
(Canongate, 1990).
Large format. Hardback. Very good+ in slightly rubbed, slightly edge-worn dustwrapper. 264pp. Order No. NSBK-C15463
Keywords: 9780963698506, Glasgow, Scotland, Scottish, women, girls, art, design. women artists, history, Scots, women's, Glasgow School of Art, avante garde movement
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Robb, Tom.
Painting & Drawing: A Complete Art Course
(Tiger Books International, 1995).
Hardback. Fly leaf slightly soiled, otherwise very good+ in dustwrapper. 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10318
Keywords: 1855016931, painting, drawing, art, painters, artists, Britain, British, England, English, crafts, history
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Church, W. E.
W. M. Thackeray as an Artist and Art Critic: an Essay
(Privately printed, 1890).
Booklet. Hardback. Good in ex-library binding. xvpp. Order No. NSBK-A15237
Keywords: B000WTKLSU, Thackeray, artists, writers, nineteenth century, 19th, art critics, history of art, essays
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Williams, Leonard.
The Arts And Crafts Of Older Spain: Volume II only
(Foulis, 1907).
Volume Two Only. Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps. Light wear to cloth, otherwise good+, solid. x + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-A14379
Keywords: B001BW24EQ, arts, crafts, Spain, Spanish, volume two, II, 2, European, Hispanic, furniture, ivory, pottery, potteries, glass, ivories, ornaments, decorated, decoration, religion
Price £16.00.
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Monet, Claude.
Claude Monet: A Loan Exhibition. City Art Museum of St Louis, September 25 through October 22, 1957; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 1 Through December 1 1957
(Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, 1957).
Catalogue. Spine slightly worn, otherwise very good. 43 + picturespp. Order No. NSBK-A11184
Keywords: art, artists, painters, paintings, France, French, Europe, European, twentieth century, 20th, impressionism, Impressionists
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Leek, Michael E.
The Art of Nautical Illustration: A Visual Tribute to the Achievements of the Classic Marine Illustrations
(Eagle Editions, 2001).
Paperback. Fine, large format. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A5823
Keywords: 1861604246, nautical, illustrations, marine, sea, drawings, paintings, art, artists, painters, ships, shipping, sailing, history, designs, designers, Dutch painters, American nautical artists, Europe, European, boats, USA, United States, American, history
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Jackson, Glenda.
Rise Up Women: The Suffragette Campaign in London
(Museum of London, 1992).
PAL VHS. Includes the anti--suffragette film Milling the Militants. VHS video. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15762
Keywords: Milling the Militants, social history, suffragettes, suffragette, women, women's, Emily Wilding Davison, London, England, Votes for Women, Glenda Jackson, Museum of London, suffragette campaign
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Hause, Steven C.
Hubertine Auclert: The French Suffragette
(Yale University Press, 1987).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C7515
Keywords: 0300038453, France, French, Europe, Europeans, history, women, women's history, women's movement, women's rights, rights for women, Women's suffrage, politics, political, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, 20th, twentieth, Edwardian, Hubertine Auclert, feminism, feminists, Paris, Parisian, suffragettes, votes for women, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, lives, life history, enfranchisement, woman suffrage
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Inchbald, Elizabeth.
Nature and Art: London, 1796
(Pickering and Chatto, 1997).
Editor: Shawn L. Maurer. Hardback. Very good+. lvii + 163pp. Order No. NSBK-C15299
Keywords: 9781851962655, nature, art, Elizabeth Inchbald, women writers, 18th century, eighteenth century, history
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