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.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Suffragette Embroidered Iron-on Patches, .
Three WSPU Embroidered Iron-On Patches: Attractive Cloth Patches in Purple, White and Green, Featuring a Women's Social and Political Union Embroidered Insignia
(Portrayer, 2005).
Pack of 3 iron-on patches, presented in a small poly-bag. Each patch is circular, 45 mm in diameter, and can be affixed easily to garments (jackets, bags, trousers, shirts, handkerchiefs, scarves, skirts, coats, jumpers etc.) with the use of a hot iron and a damp cloth. High quality items in green satin, with white, purple and green silk embroidered stitching detail (WSPU insignia which depicts a Clarion 'Angel' with trumpet). Brand new, fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C8966
Keywords: WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, suffragettes, suffrage, suffragette, Portrayer Publishers, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, women's history, enfranchisement, women's movement, campaigns, cloth, patch, patches, embroidery, embroidered, iron-on patch, iron-on patches, Britain, British, England, English, angel, trumpet, Clarion, Votes for Women, suffragette ephemera
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
View Image
|
Pankhurst, Richard.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Artist and Crusader
(Paddington Press, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C2541
Keywords: 0709206283, suffrage, suffragist, suffragettes, art, Edwardian England, Votes for Women, women's rights, women's movement, women, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, history women's politics, women and politics, Sylvia Pankhurst, England, Britain, history, English, British
Price £20.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Cobbe, Frances Power.
Life of Frances Power Cobbe: by Herself
(Richard Bentley, 1894).
In two volumes. Scarce. With illustrations. Gilt titles to spine, and gilt decoration to front board. Hardback. Edges rubbed and corners worn, some foxing to endpapers and title pages, otherwise very good, fairly bright, solid copies. 332pp. Order No. NSBK-C7265
Keywords: Frances Power Cobbe, Cobbe, set, feminist, feminism, feminists, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, antiquarian, autobiography, autobiographies, women, women writer, women writers, woman, woman writers, journalist, journalists, journalism, women journalist, women journalist, woman journalists, women journalists, women's rights, The Claims Of Women, gender, women's movement, women's movements, Miss Power Cobbe, women's history, history, woman, womanhood, letters, letter, correspondence, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, suffrage, suffragette, suffragettes, enfranchisement, Votes for Women, suffragist, suffragists, right, rights, philanthropist, philanthropy, philanthropists, philanthropic, volumes
Price £80.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
DuBois, Ellen Carol.
Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869
(Cornell UP, 2nd printing, 1980).
Paperback. Light soiling / fading to covers, otherwise good. 220pp. Order No. NSBK-C5300
Keywords: 9780801491825, America, American, USA, United States, feminism, feminists, suffrage, suffragettes, women and politics, women's rights, women's movement,. women's emancipation, votes for women, Ellen Carol DuBois, suffrage movement, American women's history, nineteenth century, Victorian, Civil War, Working Women's Association, National Labor Union, National Labour Union, suffragism, suffragists, fifteenth amendment
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
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
Price £20.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Butler, Rupert.
As They Saw Her: Emmeline Pankhurst
(George G. Harrap, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf. Small tea stain to page edges, otherwise good in browned, slightly creased dustwrapper. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C74
Keywords: 0245599703, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights. womens' movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edwardian, biographies, Pankhursts
Price £8.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Mitchell, David.
The Fighting Pankhursts: A Study in Tenacity
(Jonathan Cape, 1967).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in soiled and edgeworn dustwrapper. 352pp. Order No. NSBK-A8922
Keywords: 0224611917, Pankhursts, Pankhurst, Christabel, Emmeline, Sylvia, Adela, suffrage, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, suffragettes, suffragette, protest, political women, David Mitchell, politics, Votes for Women, women's movement, Britain, British, England, English, suffrage question, post-women's suffrage, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
BBC, Radio Times Special.
Shoulder to Shoulder: How Women Fought for the Vote. A Full Illustrated Guide to the New BBC TV Series. Radio Times Special Magazine
(Radio Times, BBC, 1974).
The BBC series Shoulder to Shoulder aired in 1974 on BBC2. The six-part drama, which focused on the history of the women's suffrage movement, ran from April 3 to May 8, 1974. Paperback. Pages browned with age, light wear to edges, and front cover slightly split at top. Otherwise good+. 64pp. Order No. NSBK-C16014
Keywords: 9780563126522, stored with booklets, antiquarian, suffragettes, suffragette, Votes for Women, BBC, TV, programmes, programme,1970s, seventies, magazines, magazine, Radio Times Special, dramas, drama, television, women's movement, history
Price £25.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
Ashton, Owen; Fyson, Robert & Roberts, S., eds.
The Chartist Legacy:
(Merlin, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. xvi + 297pp. Order No. NSBK-A3661
Keywords: 0850364841, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation
Price £7.00.
Convert to
US$
EURO
YEN
ADD THIS ITEM TO MY BASKET
|
|
|
