Daniel, Cletus.
Bitter Harvest: A History of California Farmworkers, 1870-1941
(Cornell UP, 1981).
Hardback. Spine ends slightly bumped, otherwise good+ in slightly chipped dustwrapper. 348pp. Order No. NSBK-A12536
Keywords: 0801412846, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, farms, farming, farmers, agricultural, land, agrarian, agriculture, country, countryside, rural, unions, trade unions, trade unionism, trade unionists, collective action, Californian, California, work, workers
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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
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Phillips, Catherine Coffin.
Jessie Benton Fremont:
(Nebraska UP, 1995 rpt of 1935 edit.).
Wife of John C. Fremont. Washington presidential circles in the late nineteenth century. Intro. by Christine Bold. Paperback. Very good. xvii + 361pp. Order No. NSBK-C1630
Keywords: 0803287402, Jessie Benton Fremont, Fremont, Jessie Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Fremont, Washington, United States, USA, America, American, American women, American women's history, biography, nineteenth century
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Arac, Jonathan.
Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne
(Rutgers UP, 1979).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly soiled / worn dustwrapper. xiii + 200pp. Order No. NSBK-A3244
Keywords: 0813508746, literature, America, American literature, United States, USA, Charles Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, Hawthorne
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Fawcett, Millicent Garrett.
Women's Suffrage: a Short History of a Great Movement
(Portrayer Publishers, 2002 facs. rpt of 1912 ed).
A well-presented facsimile of a hitherto scarce title. Paperback. New book, fine. 94pp. Order No. NSBK-C5097
Keywords: 0954263243, women's suffrage, Votes for Women, Edwardian, suffragettes, Millicent Fawcett, England, Britain, history, English, British, woman suffrage, enfranchisement, women's history, women's movement, women suffrage, politics, suffragists, anti-suffragists, militant, militancy, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, parliament, Portrayer
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Aisenberg, Nadya and Harrington, Mona.
Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove
(Massachusetts UP, 1988).
Paperback. Cover slightly soiled, otherwise good. xii + 207pp. Order No. NSBK-C12761
Keywords: 0870236067, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, , women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe
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Cheney, Ednah, D.
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters and Journals
(Samson Low etc, 1889).
With photograph and printed example of Alcott's handwriting beneath. Hardback. Ex library, boards rubbed, otherwise good. 404pp. Order No. NSBK-C15472
Keywords: B0016PRJWU, Victorian, wioman writer, women writers, life, hife history, Ednah D. Cheney, letters, journals, diaries, diary, Little Women, American, America, USA, US, history, literature, novels, novelist, Louisa M. Alcott, epistles, literary, biography, biographical
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Smyth, Ethel.
As Time Went On:
(Longmans, Green, 1936).
Hardback. Black cloth with gilt lettering slightly rubbed and slightly marked at back, otherwise a good solid copy. xi + 339pp. Order No. NSBK-C16046
Keywords: Ethel Smyth, autobiography, autobiographies, history, letters, women, literature, Victorian, women's suffrage, women composers, music, suffragettes
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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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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
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