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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Connelly, Katherine.
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire
(Pluto, 2013).
Paperback. Fine. ix + 178pp. Order No. NSBK-C15423
Keywords: 9780745333229, Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragettes, Votes for Women, history, women's history, Pankhursts, biography, militancy
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Jackson, Glenda.
Rise Up Women: The Suffragette Campaign in London
(Museum of London, 1992).
PAL VHS. Includes the anti--suffragette film Milling the Militants. VHS video. Very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15762
Keywords: Milling the Militants, social history, suffragettes, suffragette, women, women's, Emily Wilding Davison, London, England, Votes for Women, Glenda Jackson, Museum of London, suffragette campaign
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Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Circle
(Portrayer Publishers, 2010).
Circular badge: 2.5cm in diameter. Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The words "Votes for Women" on a cream background are surrounded by black and green shapes. Brand new in fine condition. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15003
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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Suffragettes, .
Reproduction Votes for Women Badge: Votes for Women Shield in a Square
(Portrayer, 2010).
Attractive plated metal brooch / badge with firm safety-pin fitment at the rear for affixing to clothes. A faithful reproduction of the original. The image displays the words "Votes for Women" on a white sash in the middle of a purple and green shield. The badge itself is square in shape. 25mm by 25mm. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C15005
Keywords: badges, brooches, jewellery, history, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage, social history, Votes for Women, campaign, women's movement, suffragette ephemera, replica suffragette ephemera
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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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Bennett, Daphne.
Emily Davies and the Liberation of Women, 1830-1921:
(Andre Deutsch, 1990).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 279pp. Order No. NSBK-C733
Keywords: 0233984941, suffragettes, suffrage, suffragism, votes for women, women's rights, feminism, British, Britain, England, English, history, education, higher education, adult education, nineteenth century, Victorian, women's education, women's movement, Emily Davies, Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon, Elizabeth Blackwell, Girton College, Cambridge University, universities, university education, Girton, founder, founders
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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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Maclean, Catherine Macdonald.
Born Under Saturn: A Biography of William Hazlitt
(Collins, 1943).
Hardback. Some foxing to first few pages, spine edges bumped and covers slightly soiled, otherwise good in soiled, torn and sellotaped dustwrapper. 629pp. Order No. NSBK-A11947
Keywords: B0007IUS0W, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, politics, political, politicians, government, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories
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Butler, Rupert.
As They Saw Her: Emmeline Pankhurst
(George G. Harrap, 1970).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf. Small tea stain to page edges, otherwise good in browned, slightly creased dustwrapper. 143pp. Order No. NSBK-C74
Keywords: 0245599703, suffrage, suffragettes, suffragists, politics, political, rights, women's rights. womens' movement, Votes for Women, woman, women's history, women's studies, women's suffrage, woman's suffrage, Emmeline Pankhurst, Edwardian, biographies, Pankhursts
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