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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Hudson, Derek.
Martin Tupper: His Rise and Fall
(Constable, 1949).
With a foreword by the Rev. Martin E. Tupper grandson of the author of Proverbial Philosophy. Hardback. Mark left by small label on cloth at rear, corners worn, otherwise very good. xvi + 342pp. Order No. NSBK-A4786
Keywords: B0006D6DKM, Martin Tupper, Oxford, Proverbial Philosophy, philosopher, Tupperian, biography, biographies, nineteenth century, poet, poem, poetry, literature, literary, Victorian, wisdom
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Tims, Margaret.
Jane Addams of Hull House, 1860 - 1935: a Centenary Study
(George Allen and Unwin, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in slightly soiled dustwrapper. 166pp. Order No. NSBK-A8955
Keywords: B0000CKYPE, Jane Addams, Hull House, women's history, Chicago, American women, USA, United States of America, social work, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, pacifism, pacifists, pacifist, Nobel Peace Prize winners, social reformers, philanthropy, philanthropists
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Brydon, Lynne & Chant, Sylvia.
Women in the Third World: Gender Issues in Rural and Urban Areas
(Edward Elgar, rpt, 1993).
Paperback. Very good. 327pp. Order No. NSBK-C6810
Keywords: 1852781904, gender, rural, countryside, Third World, development, developing countries, women, urban, towns, urban planning, town planning, women's issues, household, reproduction, migration, rural development policy, Brazil, South America, South East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, African, East Africa, poverty, poor
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Saxton, Martha.
Louisa May: a Modern Biography of Louisa May Alcott
(Andre Deutsch, 1978).
Hardback. Very good, clean. viii + 428pp. Order No. NSBK-C2292
Keywords: 0233969659, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, American, America, American women, American women writers, woman writer, women writers, United States, USA, women's history
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Thompson, Flora.
Lark Rise to Candleford:
(Penguin, rpt., 1984).
Introduced by H. J. Massingham. Paperback. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise good. 537pp. Order No. NSBK-C10112
Keywords: 0140036725, Lark Rise to Candleford, Flora Thompson, autobiography, autobiographical, autobiographies, Victorian, rural, country, countryside, women writers, women's writing, lives, life histories, life history, woman writer
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Hopkins, Ellice.
The Power of Womanhood: or Mothers and Sons. A Book for Parents and Those in Loco Parentis
(Wells, Gardner, Darton, 1900).
Hardback. Boards soiled, otherwise good. vi + 192pp. Order No. NSBK-C13668
Keywords: B000XIDAU6, womanhood, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Wojtczak, Helena.
Women of Victorian Sussex: their Status, Occupations,and Dealings With The Law, 1830-1870
(Hastings Press, 2003).
Paperback. New book, fine. ix + 245pp. Order No. NSBK-C7234
Keywords: 1904109055, Victorian, Hastings, women, woman, nineteenth century, social history, Britain, British, England, English, provinces, provincial, regional studies, seaside, seaside towns, women's history, occupations, neighbourhood, community, communities, urban, urban history, St Leonards, gender, Sussex, Victorian prostitution, prostitutes, prostitute, infanticide, liquor, liquor trade. trade, motherhood, mothers, mother, occupation, occupations, infant murder, infant killing, infant killings, brothel, brothels, milliners, milliner, midwives, midwife, midwifery, drunkenness, drunkard, drunkards, drink, drinking, drinker, drinkers, 19th Century, Lewes, Brighton, status, law, laws, Hailsham, Helena Wojtczak, Chichester, Class, Classes
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Black, Naomi and Brandt, Gail Cuthbert.
Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1999).
Hardback. Light blemishing to base of front board, otherwise very good. xii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C8212
Keywords: 0773518282, agrarian, rural, country, countryside, women, women's history, woman, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, Canada, Canadian, Quebec, France, French, farms, farming, farm, demography, demographic, farm women, feminism, feminist, mass, twenieth century, 20th, farming, farmers
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Cline, Sally.
Radclyffe Hall: a Woman Called John
(John Murray, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in very good dustwrapper, lightly creased at edges. xiv + 434pp. Order No. NSBK-C15735
Keywords: 9780719554087, Radclyffe Hall, women writers, history, literature, biography, biographies
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