Whitney, Janet.
Elizabeth Fry: Quaker Heroine
(George G. Harrap, rpt., 1938).
Hardback. Newspaper cutting pasted to inside front cover, boards stained and worn, otherwise good. 328pp. Order No. NSBK-C11320
Keywords: 0405090722, prison, prison reform, Elizabeth Fry, philanthropy, Victorian, Quaker, women, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, jails, gaols, Quakers, biography, biographical, biographies, life history, life histories
Price £9.00.
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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
Price £18.00.
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Littlejohn, Gary, Smart, Barry et al, eds.
Power and the State:
(Croom Helm, 1978).
Paperback. Spine faded, with a newspaper review pasted to endpapers, title pages slightly shakey, otherwise good+. 314pp. Order No. NSBK-A15963
Keywords: 9780856646645, the state, politics, sociology, women, business, nationalism
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Parsons, The Rev. Martin.
Your Marriage:
(Hodder and Stoughton, 2nd impress., 1960).
The Christian Commitment Series. Paperback. Spine creased, ink annotation to inside back cover, otherwise good. 112pp. Order No. NSBK-A10275
Keywords: 0340020024, The Reverend Martin Parsons, marriage, weddings, husbands, wives, wife, marital, mothers, fathers, emn, women, Christians, Christianity
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Abrams, Fran.
Freedom's Cause: The Lives of the Suffragettes
(Profile Books, 2003).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xvii + 283pp. Order No. NSBK-A15642
Keywords: 9781861974259, history, suffragettes, Votes for Women
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
John Bull and his Wife: Franchise Villa
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design) including envelopes. Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wider. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image is printed in vibrant colours and is taken from a suffragette poster, c. 1912. Mrs Bull tries to beat an entry into Franchise Villa, while her husband, John Bull, refuses to let her in. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14484
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, envelopes, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, cartoons, art, suffragette art, art, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, John Bull, enfranchisement
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Cline, Sally.
Radclyffe Hall: a Woman Called John
(John Murray, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in very good dustwrapper, lightly creased at edges. xiv + 434pp. Order No. NSBK-C15735
Keywords: 9780719554087, Radclyffe Hall, women writers, history, literature, biography, biographies
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Meynell, Alice.
Selected Poems of Alice Meynell:
(Burns, Oates & Washbourne, n.d.).
Hardback. Green cloth slightly spotted, otherwise very good. 58pp. Order No. NSBK-C92
Keywords: 0370003829, poem, poet, poetry, Alice Meynell, women writers, woman writer, Meynell, literature, poets, Victorian, nineteenth century, British, Britain, English, England
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Parker, Rozsika.
The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine
(Women's Press Ltd, rpt, 1989).
Illustrated. Paperback. Covers slightly discoloured, otherwise very good. 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C13728
Keywords: 0704338831, embroidery, embroiderers, history, women, sewing, hobbies, crafts, female identity, femininity, chastity, fertility, domesticity, samplers, embroidering, stitchery, needlework
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Darling, Isabella F.
Songs from Silence:
(Alexander Gardner, 2nd edition, 1913).
Hardback. Light scuffing and fading to blue boards, some light foxing to pages not affecting legibility, otherwise a good+ copy. 248pp. Order No. NSBK-A10180
Keywords: B0019RL7QO, Isabella Darling, women writers, woman writer, songs, writing, poetry, poems, poets, history, women's history, British, Britain, Scottish, Scotland, Scots, English, Victorian, nineteenth century, literature, literary, Lanarkshire, stane, singing, singers, music, verses, sickness
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