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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Livingstone, W.P.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
(Hodder & Stoughton, Popular edition, 34th edition, 1931).
With illustrations. Scottish factory girl, 1848-1915, and her missionary work in the tropics. Hardback. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, splitting to tops spine edge (3 inches), a little spotting to boards, otherwise good/firm. x + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C370
Keywords: B000855ZWA, tropics, Mary Slessor, Slessor, missionary, Scotland, pioneer, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, women traveler, missionaries
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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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Woodall, Richard Dudley.
Mary Ann Galton of Barr Hall and Birmingham:
(Norman A. Tector, 1955).
Booklet. Booklet. Illustrations present but loose. Booklet, creased at base, otherwise in good condition. 20pp. Order No. NSBK-C15852
Keywords: B0018I6FNO, Galtons, women, Mary Ann Galton, Barr Hall, Birmingham, Midlands, history, booklets, booklet, biography, biographies
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Cott, Nancy F., ed.
A Woman Making History: Mary Ritter Beard Through her Letters
(Yale UP, 1991).
Paperback. Minor marginal pencil annotation, otherwise very good. xii + 378pp. Order No. NSBK-C8399
Keywords: 0300052529, woman, women, women's history, Nancy F Cott, Mary Ritter Beard, letters, epistolary, epistolary, American, USA, United States, social reform, suffrage, Charles A Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, feminism, feminists, women's rights, women's movement
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Porter, Mrs Horace.
Mary Sumner: her Life and Work
(Mothers' Union, 3rd edition, 1950).
Founder of the Mothers' Union. Hardback. Blank frontispiece page lacks corner, edges of boards rubbed, otherwise very good. xii + 109pp. Order No. NSBK-C4114
Keywords: B000X65TWK, Mothers' Union, motherhood, history, biography, biographies, life stories, Mary Sumner, Winchester, nineteenth century, Victorian
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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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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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