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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Russell, Mrs Bertrand; Russell, Dora.
Hypatia: or, Woman and Knowledge
(Kegan Paul, 1925).
Hardback. Original boards worn along all edges, otherwise a good copy. 81pp. Order No. NSBK-C15972
Keywords: B0006DDAUS, antiquarian, Dora Russell, Mrs Bertrand Russell, women, history, feminist, feminism, suffragettes, suffragette movement, peace
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Grand, Sarah.
The Heavenly Twins:
(University of Michigan Press, 1993).
Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Paperback. Page edges slightly soiled, otherwise very good. xlvii + 679pp. Order No. NSBK-C15859
Keywords: 9780472065080, Ireland, Irish, women writers, suffragettes, Votes for Women, New Woman, literature
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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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Sterling, Dorothy.
Black Foremothers: Three Lives
(Feminist Press, 1988).
Paperback. Very good. xliii + 174pp. Order No. NSBK-C15709
Keywords: 9780935312898, black women, American women, suffragettes, slavery, civil rights movement, USA, America
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Hurley, Jennifer A, ed.
Women's Rights: Great Speeches in History
(Greenhaven Press, 2002).
Hardback. Library sticker to front board, a little waviness to later pages caused by damp, otherwise good. 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C15663
Keywords: 9780737707731, women's speeches, feminism, USA, women's rights, suffragettes, human rights, civil rights
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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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Dane, Clemence.
The Women's Side:
(Herbert Jenkins, 1926).
Hardback. A little fading / soiling to red cloth, especially at spine, otherwise good. 144pp. Order No. NSBK-C15928
Keywords: B00085URVY, Clemence Dane, women, antiquarian, suffragettes, education, votes, woman question, marriage
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Artichoke, Various Authors.
Women Making History: Processions, The Banners
(Profile Editions, 2020).
Large format. Hardback. Very good. 192pp. Order No. NSBK-A15988
Keywords: 9781788165457, suffragettes, artwork, banners, processions, protest, history, arts, women, Artichoke, texts, textiles, art, design
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