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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Symons, Julian.
The Thirties: A Dream Revolved
(Faber, 1975).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Paperback. Good+. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A11953
Keywords: 0571107168, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, 1930s, Thirties, politics
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Heydon, Peter N., & Kelley Philip, eds.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Letters to Mrs David Ogilvy, 1849-1861: With Recollections by Mrs Ogilvy
(Quadrangle, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in sl worn dustwrapper. xxxv + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C2124
Keywords: 0812902874, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Mrs Oglivy, poet, Victorian, poetry, woman writer, women writers, women's history, literature, correspondence, poets, British, Britain
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Historic Society of Lancashire and Ches, .
Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire:
(Hist Soc of Lanc and Chesh, Liverpool).
1 volume only: 124 (1972). Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, corners rubbed, otherwise good in bright red and gilt decorated cloth. pp. Order No. NSBK-A10653
Keywords: Britain, British, history, Lancashire, Cheshire, society, societies, regions, regional, county, counties, county history, county histories, transactions, Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, volumes
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Hanley, Keith and Milbank, eds.
From Lancaster to the Lakes: The Region in Literature
(CNWRS, 1992).
Paperback. Fine. vii + 111pp. Order No. NSBK-A12878
Keywords: 0901800031, Centre for North West Regional Studies, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, Lancaster, Lancashire, regions, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th
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Musgrave, P. W.
Society and the Curriculum in Australia:
(George Allen & Unwin, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some wear to covers, internally good. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A7978
Keywords: 0868610259, world, Australia, Australian, twentieth century, 20th, education, curriculum, curricula, society, teaching, teachers, academic, Australasia
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Spender, Dale, ed.
The Penguin Anthology of Australian Women's Writing:
(Penguin, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xxxiii + 882pp. Order No. NSBK-C2141
Keywords: 0140112375, Australian, Australian women, Australian women's history, anthology, women writers
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Clutterbuck, Charlie & Lang, Tim.
More than We Can Chew: The Crazy World of Food and Farming
(Pluto Press, 1982).
From the Series: Arguments for Socialism. Paperback. Back slightly bent, otherwise good. 120pp. Order No. NSBK-A5595
Keywords: 0861045017, food, farming, socialism, left wing, socialism, Common Agriculture Policy, Europe, European, history, twentieth century, Agricap, British Society for the Responsibility of Science, Britain, British, England, English
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McMullen, Roy.
Victorian Outsider: A Biography of J.A.M. Whistler
(Macmillan, 1973).
Hardback. Very good in torn, chipped dustwrapper. 307pp. Order No. NSBK-A9676
Keywords: 0333141164, art, artists, biography, biographies, biographical, life histories, life history, J. A. M. Whistler, Whistler, painters, paintings, lives, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, American, USA, United States, Europe, European
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Stewart, Katharine.
Crofts and Crofting:
(William Blackwood, 1980).
Paperback. Very good+. vi + 64pp. Order No. NSBK-A11157
Keywords: 0851581374, crofts, crofting, agrarian, Scotland, Scots, Scotch, Scottish, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, labour, farm work, farms, farming
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