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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John, Angela V.
Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 1869 - 1955
(MUP, 2009).
Paperback. Fine, as new. xv + 281pp. Order No. NSBK-D14266
Keywords: 9780719080159, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights, women's movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, Evelyn Sharp, biography, biographies, children's authors, women writers, Henry W. Nevinson, schoolgirl fiction, Manchester Guardian, Weimar Germany, famine, Soviet Russia, journalists, journalism, Victorian, Edwardian, nineteenth century, 19th, Rebel Women, Angela V. John
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Alonso, Harriet Hyman.
The Women's Peace Union and the Outlawry of War, 1921-1942:
(Tennessee UP, 1989).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xxi + 224pp. Order No. NSBK-C2646
Keywords: 0870496174, America, United States, peace, pacifism, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, women's politics, votes for women
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Stowell, Sheila.
A Stage of their Own: Feminist Playwrights of the Suffrage Era
(MUP, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. vi + 170pp. Order No. NSBK-C200
Keywords: 0719036771, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, feminism, playwright, drama, theatre, women writers, woman writer, Women's Movement, Edwardian, women's history, plays, New Woman, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage
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Sharp, Evelyn.
Rebel Women:
(Portrayer, 2003 facsimile of the 1st edit. of 1910).
A special edition of this highly sought-after work of suffragette fiction, in smart bespoke binding. Walnut finish boards with blue & green head and tail bands. Coloured endpapers. A series of descriptive sketches about the suffragette movement. Hardback. Fine condition. 135pp. Order No. NSBK-C6498
Keywords: 0954476107, suffragettes, suffrage, women's history, Rebel Women, Edwardian, New Woman, Votes for Women, Evelyn Sharp, Britain, British, England, English, enfranchisement, woman suffrage, woman, women writers, fiction, social protest, political women, politics, collector's editions, literature, twentieth century, 20th century, Portrayer, Portrayer's, Portrayer Publishers, fictional, writing, stories, sketches
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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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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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McPhee, C., & Fitzgerald, A.
The Non-Violent Militant: Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig
(RKP, Women's Source Lib., 1987).
Her involvement in the Women's Social & Political Union, the Women's Freedom League and the I.L.P. Hardback. Very good in slightly rubbed dustwrapper. vii + 312pp. Order No. NSBK- C5
Keywords: 0710212321, Teresa Billington-Grieg, writings, militancy, non-violence, suffrage, Votes for Women, history, suffragettes, education, women's movement, Britain, England, English, British, Edwardian
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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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