Bell, E. Moberly.
Octavia Hill: a Biography
(Constable, 1942).
With a foreword by Sir Reginald Rowe. 8 illustrations. Hardback. Some marking and splashing to green cloth, fading at spine and wear to corners, otherwise a good solid copy. xvi + 297pp. Order No. NSBK-C1245
Keywords: B0007IWCYW, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, stored near piano
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Cole, G.D.H.
The Life of William Cobbett:
(Home and Van Thal, 1947).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, otherwise good in torn, worn dustwrapper. xii + 455pp. Order No. NSBK-A10331
Keywords: William Cobbett, biography, biographies, life history, life histories, lives, writers, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, history
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Wiener, Joel.
William Lovett:
(MUP, 1989).
Lives of the Left. Paperback. Some annotation in pen not affecting legibility, otherwise good. vi + 152pp. Order No. NSBK-A12784
Keywords: 0719021731, William Lovett, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Chartism, Chartists, politics, political, politicians, government
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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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Cole, G.D.H.
Richard Carlile:
(Victor Gollancz, 1943).
Fabian Society. Biographical Series no 13. Booklet. Front & back covers slightly torn, otherwise good. 37pp. Order No. NSBK-A16010
Keywords: booklets, pamphlets, Richard Carlile, radicalism, freethought, Fabian Society, nineteenth century, 19th, radicals, biography, biographies
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Albright, Madeleine.
Madam Secretary: A Memoir
(Macmillan, 2003).
With Bill Woodward. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper with mark left by sticker. xiv + 562pp. Order No. NSBK-C13058
Keywords: 140503369X, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, politics, political, politicians, government, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history
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Wardlaw, C. W.
A Quiet Talent: Jessie Wardlaw, 1903 - 1971. A Brief Biographical Note on her Artistic Accomplishments
(Manchester, 1971).
Hardback. Very good in soiled, faded and slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C6565
Keywords: 0950215600, Jessie Wardlaw, women, twentieth century, women artists, art, artistic, paintings, English, British, Britain, Britain, Trinidad, Belgian Congo, Bramhall, Cheshire, Manchester, Bapende, Kundu, Topoke, the Congo, 20th century, portraits, black history, biography, biographies, life histories, life history
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Field, Jean.
Mary Dormer Harris: The Life and Works of a Warwickshire Historian
(Brewin Books, 2002).
Special Hardback edition of 250 copies signed by the author. Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xii + 180pp. Order No. NSBK-C7148
Keywords: 1858581990, Mary Dormer Harris, history, historians, Jean Field, Warwickshire, Warwick, suffragists, women's rights, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Britain, British, England, English, women writers, women's writing, women's history, suffragettes, suffrage movement, 19th, 20th, Edwardian, biography, biographical, biographies, life histories, life history, lives
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Read, Donald and Glasgow, Eric.
Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist
(Edward Arnold, 1961).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, light sellotape marks to cloth, otherwise good in slightly worn dustwrapper. 160pp. Order No. NSBK-A10350
Keywords: B0000CKYZG, Chartists, Chartist movement, Chartism, radicalism, popular protest, nineteenth century, Victorian, socialism, reform, politics, franchise, votes, suffrage, working class, representation, working-class, classes, radicals, Irish, Irishman, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, lives, eighteenth century, 18th
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