Gorham, Deborah.
Libby Davis: An Indiana Girlhood
(Stone Flower Press, 2011).
Hardback. Very good+. xx + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C15540
Keywords: 9781257771158, Indiana, America, American, USA, United States, Wabash River, biography, fiction, biographies
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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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Reynolds, M. E.
Memories of John Galsworthy:
(Robert Hale, 1936).
By his sister. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn, rubbed and browned dustwrapper. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A10299
Keywords: B000I83NSU, John Galsworthy, biography, biographies, lives, life histories, life history, writers, literature, authors, fiction, novels, Forsyte Saga, M. E, Reynolds
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Leaming, Barbara.
Katharine Hepburn:
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1995).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, covers slightly worn, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 548pp. Order No. NSBK-C10556
Keywords: 0297813196, Katharine Hepburn, film stars, America, USA, United States, women, women's history, media, films, cinema, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, Spencer Tracey
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Whitney, Janet.
Geraldine S. Cadbury, 1865-1941:
(George G. Harrap, 1948).
Hardback. A good copy in a worn and torn dustwrapper. 200pp. Order No. NSBK-C1011
Keywords: B0006D94T4, Geraldine S. Cadbury, chocolate, factory, factories, food, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Burton, Anthony.
William Cobbett: Englishman, a Biography
(Aurum Press, 1997).
Hardback. Very good+ in dustwrapper. xi + 275pp. Order No. NSBK-A13817
Keywords: biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, 1854105167, William Cobbett, Englishman, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Wilson, Ian.
Shakespeare The Evidence: Unlocking the Mysteries of the Man and his Work
(Headline, 1993).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, title page & final index page partly detached, otherwise good in chipped dw. xiii + 498pp. Order No. NSBK-A7000
Keywords: 0747205825, literature, literary, Shakespeare, Britain, British, playwrights, writers, dramas, theatres, Globe, London, Stratford-on-Avon, biography, biographies, life histories, life history, lives, sixteenth century, seventeenth century, stages, actors
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Bonnard, Georges A.
Edward Gibbon: Memoirs of My Life
(Nelson, 1966).
Hardback. Good+ in edgeworn dustwrapper. xxxv + 346pp. Order No. NSBK-A12544
Keywords: B000IMLF2M, Edward Gibbon, historians, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history , Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, eighteenth century, 18th
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Tomkinson, E. M.
Sarah Robinson, Agnes Weston and Mrs Meredith: World's Workers
(Cassell, 1887).
Hardback. Boards rubbed espec at edges, otherwise good+ with decorated boards. 128pp. Order No. NSBK-A15534
Keywords: B0008A3WA2, biography, biographies, self-history, self-histories, Sarah Robinson, Agnes Weston, Mrs Meredith, Britain, British, England, English
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Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
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