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.
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Klein, Viola.
Britain's Married Women Workers:
(RKP, 1965).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps, light spotting to cloth, otherwise good in chipped, slightly soiled dustwrapper. xiv + 166pp. Order No. NSBK-C138
Keywords: B0000CMPD6, marriage, married women, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, sociology, Viola Klein, work, working women, employees, employment, twentieth century, sixties, 1960s
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Chinn, Carl.
They Worked All Their Lives: Women of the Urban Poor in England, 1880-1939
(MUP, 1988).
Hardback. With a newspaper review pasted to front endpapers, otherwise very good in faded dustwrapper. xi + 187pp. Order No. NSBK-A15085
Keywords: 9780719024368, urban poor, poverty, Carl Chinn, working class, women's history, social history, British, English, England, Britain, Birmingham, Midlands, charity, mothers, motherhood, Reports, women's work, trade unions, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th century, twentieth century, self-help, community, communities, debt, Clementina Black, working women
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins.
The Man-Made World: or, Our Androcentric Culture
(T. Fisher Unwin, first UK edition, 1911).
Small green splash to front inner board. Overall good+, a solid copy for the collector. Hardback. Original dark green cloth with gilt lettering. Boards a little scratched, & with light blotching. Corners worn & top spine end slightly split. Else good+. 269pp. Order No. NSBK-A13725
Keywords: B00085ZQRE, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, women writers, man-made world, men, masculinity, feminism, ethics, humanity, economics, education, women's emancipation, history, twentieth century, UK 1st editions, first editions
Price £80.00.
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Portrayer Reproductions, .
Replica Rectangular Votes for Women Suffragette Badge:
(Portrayer Publishers, 2018).
Rectangular, and measuring 3.5cm by 3cm, this badge is one of the larger and heavier ones in our collection. It's presented with a complimentary purple velvet pouch in an attractive silver-backed gift bag, and makes the perfect gift. (Particularly for any woman with a mind of her own!) The original badge from the suffragette era was glass-faced and contained woven fabric in the three suffragette colours. Therefore, the reproduction here has been created in transparent metallic enamels to give the idea of glass, and it also displays a downward gold-plated 'striping' to give the woven effect. The badge is secured at the back with two rubber butterfly-clutches. Badge. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15568
Keywords: B07KFHH5LY, badge, Christmas gifts, jewellery, jewelry, woman suffrage, button badge, pin backs, pinback, suffragette era, suffragettes, women, women's history, woman, woman's history, history, social history, Britain, British history, England, English history, WSPU, Women's Social and Political Union, enamel badges, suffragette jewellery, suffragette jewelry, Edwardian, brooch, brooches, Portrayer Publishers, suffragette ephemera, pins
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Beasley, Chris.
What is Feminism?: An Introduction to Feminist Theory
(Sage, 1999).
Paperback. Very good. xvii + 171pp. Order No. NSBK-C11079
Keywords: 9780761963356, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, history of ideas, politics, women and politics, twentieth century, 20th
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Hutchins, Grace.
Women Who Work:
(Martin Lawrence Ltd, 1952).
Hardback. Covers faded and spine wrinkled. Internally good. vi + 285pp. Order No. NSBK-C13246
Keywords: US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, work, workers, occupations, capitalism, farms, factories, health
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Butler, Josephine E.
Truth Before Everything:
(Dyer Brothers, first edition, 1897).
For the collector. Pamphlet. Light foxing to paper covers, minor biro date written on top corner front cover, otherwise very good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-C15465
Keywords: B0187JJR04, pamphlet, pamphlets, Josephine E. Butler, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, reprints, working girls, philanthropy, philanthropists, Truth Before Everything, booklet
Price £40.00.
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Whyte, Edna Gardner.
Rising Above It: An Autobiography
(Orion, 1991).
With Ann L. Cooper. Hardback. Very good in slightly torn dustwrapper. 257pp. Order No. NSBK-C5582
Keywords: 0517576856, Edna Gardner Whyte, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, flight, aviators, aviation, planes, aeroplanes, pilots, pilot, military, Ninety Nines, International Organisation of Women Pilots, women's work, women and work, America, American, USA, United States, flying, flight, flying machines
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Ndambuki, Berida and Robertson, Claire C.
We Only Come Here to Struggle: Stories from Berida's Life
(Indiana UP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. xxxi + 138pp. Order No. NSBK-C9146
Keywords: 0253213665, Berida, Africa, African, women, Black history, work, women's work, women and work, colonialism, Mau Mau rebellion, Kenya, Kenyan, Nairobi, women's studies, Akamba, children
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