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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Reay, Barry.
Watching Hannah: Sexuality, Horror and Bodily De-formation in Victorian England
(Reaktion Books Limited, 2002).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. 199pp. Order No. NSBK-H13042
Keywords: 1861891199. Hannah Cullwick, Arthur Munby, servants, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, body, bodies, working class, working classes, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Bell, E. Moberly.
Josephine Butler: Flame of Fire
(Constable, 1962).
Hardback. Some marking / soiling to cloth and rubbing to edges, otherwise good in soiled, worn and incomplete dustwrapper. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C187
Keywords: B0000CLMAE, social reform, prostitution, women's history, Josephine Butler, social purity, Contagious Diseases Act, Victorian, nineteenth century, Ladies' National Association, Liverpool, Winchester, Henry Wilson, J.B. Stansfeld, W.T. Stead
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Feminist Studies, .
Feminist Studies: Volume 28 Number 2
(Feminist Studies, Summer 2002).
Paperback. Near fine. 251-457pp. Order No. NSBK-C10087
Keywords: feminism, feminists, women, woman, gender, Volume 28, journals, twentieth century, 20th
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Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, .
Bookplate portrait of Mary Rice Livermore, A4 size:
(n.p., n.d.).
American suffragist and reformer who saw the vote for women as integral to ameliorating social ills. She also protested against slavery and wrote for various religious and reform periodicals. Bookplate portrait. Very good. 1pp. Order No. NSBK-C4179
Keywords: Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, picture, pictures, American, USA, suffragettes, suffragists, Massachusetts, Kansas, United States of America, Votes for Women, abolition, abolitionists, slavery, women, history, nineteenth century
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Thompson, Flora.
Lark Rise to Candleford:
(Penguin, rpt., 1984).
Introduced by H. J. Massingham. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 537pp. Order No. NSBK-C10112
Keywords: 0140036725, Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, Victorian, rural, country, countryside, women writers, women's writing, lives, life histories, life history, woman writer
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Armstrong, Nancy and Tennenhouse, Lennard.
The Ideology of Conduct: Essays in Literature and the History of Sexuality
(Methuen, 1987).
Paperback. Spine and edges sun-faded, otherwise very good. 243pp. Order No. NSBK-C13758
Keywords: 0416386008, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, conduct, manners, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Sokoloff, Bertha.
Edith and Stepney: 60 Years of Education, Politics and Social Change - Life of Edith Ramsay, 1920 - 79
(Stepney Books, 1987).
Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15979
Keywords: 9780950524160, social history, Stepney, East End, London, working class women, education, Edith Ramsay
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Charvet, John.
Feminism:
(J. M. Dent, 1982).
From the series: Modern Ideologies. Paperback. Newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+. 159pp. Order No. NSBK-C9673
Keywords: 0460112554, women's studies, feminism, feminists, women, woman, women's movement, twentieth century, 20th, female
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Cruz, Vera da.
Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary:
(Bailliere Tindall, 4th edition, rpt, 1964).
Hardback. Covers soiled & a little worn, otherwise a good working copy. xiii + 396pp. Order No. NSBK-C7273
Keywords: 0702005967, midwives, midwives' dictionary, Bailliere's Midwives' Dictionary, health, midwifery, history, 1950s, 1960s, post war, childbirth, nurses, nursing, advice books, nurse, Britain, British, England, English, social history, women's history, having babies, reproduction, motherhood, childbirth, mothers, maternity, pregnancy, pregnant
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