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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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Battiscombe, Georgina.
Charlotte Mary Yonge: the Story of an Uneventful Life
(Constable, rpt, 1943).
Hardback. Cloth faded & slightly marked at back, otherwise very good. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C2281
Keywords: B000PEA1TQ, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charlotte Yonge, biography, writer, woman writer, literature, novel, novelist,Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £6.00.
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Fairfax-Lucy, Alice.
Mistress of Charlecote: The Memoirs of Mary Elizabeth Lucy, 1803-1889
(Victor Gollancz, rpt, 1987).
Paperback. Good. 182pp. Order No. NSBK-C486
Keywords: 0575036931, Mary Elizabeth Lucy, Charlecote, memoir, aristocracy, class, stately home, Britain, British, England, English, history
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Bolt, Rodney.
As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
(Atlantic Books, 2011).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xxii + 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C16028
Keywords: 9781843548614, hall, Mary Benson, biography, biographies, Bensons, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history
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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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Ridley, Annie E.
Frances Mary Buss and her Work for Education:
(Longmans, Green, 1895).
Hardback. Some light wear to the edges, spotting to early pages, otherwise good, firm. viii + 399pp. Order No. NSBK-C5115
Keywords: B07FT3XRFG, education, women, history, women's education, Frances Mary Buss, North London Collegiate School for Ladies, Public Day School for Girls, school, schools, schooling, Victorian, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, English, British, England, Britain, training, training colleges, higher education, adult education, female, university education, universities, Annie E. Ridley
Price £40.00.
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Smith, Clifford P.
Sketches from the Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science:
(Christian Science Publ., 1934).
Historical and Biographical Papers Series. Paperback. Covers slightly thumbed, otherwise good. vi + 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C2053
Keywords: B0006AMHUA, Mary Baker Eddy, Eddy, Christian Science, Christian Scientist, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, religion, women's history
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Gilchrist, Mrs.
Mary Lamb:
(W. H. Allen, new edition, 1889).
Eminent Women Series. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with some wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-A14457
Keywords: B002B9FKZS, Mary Lamb, women writers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, history, literature, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism
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Field, Jean.
Mary Dormer Harris: The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian
(Brewin Books, 2002).
Special Hardback edition of 250 copies signed by the author. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C7148
Keywords: 1858581990, Mary Dormer Harris, history, historians, Jean Field, Warwickshire, Warwick, suffragists, women's rights, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, women writers, women's writing, women's history, suffragettes, suffrage movement, 19th, 20th, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives
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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
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