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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McQuiston, Liz.
Suffragettes to She-Devils: Women's Liberation and Beyond
(Phaidon Press, 1997).
Foreword by Germaine Greer. Hardback. Very good in faded,slightly chipped dustwrapper, large format. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-A15975
Keywords: 9780714836195, women's movement, history, feminism, emancipation, Germaine Greer
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Chapple, J. A. V.
Documentary and Imaginative Literature: 1880-1920
(Blandford Press, 1970).
From the series 'History and Literature'. Hardback. Very good in slightly discoloured dustwrapper. 395pp. Order No. NSBK-A9674
Keywords: 0713736054, literature, literary, history, historical, Great Depression of Agriculture, Socialism, Imperialism, the Boer War, Liberal Party, suffragette movement, First World War, Victorian, twentieth century, 20th, 19th
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Thomas, Mary Martha.
The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920
(Alabama UP, 1992).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. viii + 269pp. Order No. NSBK-C6710
Keywords: 0817305645, Mary Martha Thomas, Victorian, nineteenth century, twentieth century, women's history, women's rights, rights of women, women and politics, suffrage, suffragists, suffragettes, The New Woman, gender, Sourthern lady, Southern belle, black women, white women, domesticity, child labour, child labor, Mary Martha Thomas, educational reform, temperance, clubs, organisations, associations, race, racism, America, USA, United States, public debate, American
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Vellacott, Jo.
From Liberal to Labour with Women's Suffrage: The Story of Catherine Marshall
(Mc-Gill-Queen's UP, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, page edges slightly soiled, else a good + copy in slightly sun-faded dustwrapper. xvii + 518pp. Order No. NSBK-C12415
Keywords: 9780773509580, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, women's suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, Catherine Marshall, Liberal, Labour, Labor, politics, political, politicians, government
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Dorr, Rheta Childe.
What Eight Million Women Want:
(Craus, 1971 rpt of 1910 edit).
Hardback. Ex library, very good. xii + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C2588
Keywords: B0006VUHP6, women's history, suffrage, United States, America, votes for women, suffragettes, women's rights,women's politics, Rheta Childe Dorr, culture clubs, salic law
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Pankhurst, Emmeline.
My Own Story:
(Vintage, 2015).
Paperback. Nice clean copy in very good condition. xiii + 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C15723
Keywords: 9781784870409, Emmeline Pankhurst, Pankhursts, suffrage, Rights for Women, Women's Movement, female emancipation, women's rights, women's history, woman's history, autobiography, autobiographies, life histories, life history, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, radicals, radicalism, Women's Social and Political Union, munition workers, militancy, votes, voting, Christabel, Sylvia, Adela, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, WSPU, woman suffrage
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Simon, Rita J. and Danziger, Gloria.
Women's Movements in America: Their Successes, Disappointments and Aspirations
(Praeger / Greenwood Press, 1991).
Paperback. Spine faded, light soiling to back cover, otherwise very good. 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C13281
Keywords: 0275939499, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's movements, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, voting, votes for women, politics, women's rights
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Hardwick, Joan.
An Immodest Violet: the Life of Violet Hunt
(Andre Deutsch, 1990).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in creased dustwrapper. xvi + 205pp. Order No. NSBK-C6809
Keywords: 0233986391, Joan Hardwick, Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford, novelists, women novelists, women writers, free love, sexuality, biographies, biography, Ford Hermann Hueffer, feminist, feminism, feminists, Ezra Pound, suffrage, suffragettes, woman's suffrage, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, literary
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Cooper, Glynis.
A Century of Female Revolution: From Peterloo to Parliament
(Pen and Sword, 2020).
Paperback. Light soiling to page edges, otherwise very good. xv + 158pp. Order No. NSBK-C15962
Keywords: 9781526739216, women, history, radicalism, suffragettes, Victorian, Edwardian
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