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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Taylor, G.R. Stirling.
Mary Wollstonecraft: a Study in Economics and Romance
(Martin Secker, 1911).
Hardback. Ex library, library stamp on front cover board, otherwise very good. ix + 210pp. Order No. NSBK-C634
Keywords: 0837119618, Mary Wollstonecraft, women's rights, women's politics, feminism, feminist, economics, romance, women writers, woman writer, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
Price £46.00.
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Powell, Lyman P.
Mary Baker Eddy: A Life Size Portrait
(Nisbet and Co, 1930).
Hardback. Leather boards worn and marked especially at edges, otherwise internally good. xii + 364pp. Order No. NSBK-C2584
Keywords: B000I1TOGM, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, America, United States, American women, USA, American women's history
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Howard, Cecil.
Mary Kingsley:
(Hutchinson, 2nd impression, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C448
Keywords: B0007J1T72, Mary Kingsley, woman traveller, women travellers, woman traveler, women travelers, Victorian, nineteenth century, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, African, history, West Africa
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Hobman, D. L.
Go Spin You Jade: Studies in the Emancipation of Women
(Watts, 1957).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C8343
Keywords: B0000CJV3I, history of women, women's history, women's rights, emancipation, Queen Elizabeth 1st, Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Charke, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Elstob, Daniel Defoe, Mary Astell, Mrs Macaulay, Charlotte Lennox, the Blue Stockings, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Caroline Norton, Harriet Martineau, Josephine Butler, Contagious Disease Acts, eductaion, religion, church, medicine, Sophia Jex-Blake, Olive Schreiner, Mrs Fawcett, NUWSS, Pankhurst, Eleanor Rathbone
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Caws, Mary Ann.
Dora Maar: Bataille, Picasso et les Surréalistes
(Musees de Marseille, 2002).
In the French language. Outsized book. Paperback. Very good condition. 280pp. Order No. NSBK-C15778
Keywords: B007J58L6E, large book, French, women, art, surrealism, surrealists, France, history, photography
Price £85.00.
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Weaver, Mary Jo.
New Catholic Women: A Contemporary Challenge to Traditional Religious Authority
(Indiana UP, 1995).
Paperback. Very good. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C5027
Keywords: 0253209935, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, women, woman, history, reloigion, religious, Roman Catholic, Americ, American, United States, USA
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Crawford, Mary and Gentry, Margaret, eds.
Gender and Thought: Psychological Perspectives
(Springer-Verlag, 1989).
Hardback. Very good+. xiv + 201pp. Order No. NSBK-C15548
Keywords: 0387968911, sexuality, gender, theory
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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. X Library with usual library stamps. Lacks flyleaf, otherwise good. 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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