Carpenter, J. Estlin.
The Life and Work of Mary Carpenter:
(Macmillan, 2nd edition, 1881).
Hardback. Original cloth with spine ends and corners worn. Spine sunned, otherwise a very good, solid copy. xiv + 391pp. Order No. NSBK-A13865
Keywords: B000WSPERO, Mary Carpenter, 19th century, nineteenth century, history, biography, biographies, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, ragged schools, education, Bristol, social reform, reformatories for girls, poverty, teaching, teachers, reformatory schools, children, charity, philanthropy, childhood, Indian, India, female education, women's education
Price £46.00.
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Clutterbuck, Nesta, ed.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1970: Essays of General Interest on Wordsworth and his Time
(Trustees Dove Cottage, 1970).
Paperback. Good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-A5739
Keywords: 0950123803, William Wordsworth, Lake Poets, Lake District, poets, poetry, poems, life histories, life history, biographies, biography, biographical, Dove Cottage, Romantics, Romantic, Cumbria, Romanticism, literature, literary
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Adams, Kathleen.
George Eliot: A Brief Biography
(Nuneaton Borough Council, 1970).
Illustrated by William J Adams. In pamphlet form. Booklet. Covers browned, otherwise good. 28pp. Order No. NSBK-C5958
Keywords: 0950160601, Kathleen Adams, George Eliot, Victorian, nineteenth century, women writers, woman writer, biography, biographical, life history, life histories, biographies, pamphlet, booklet, stored with booklets
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Mumford, Elizabeth.
Whistler's Mother: The Life of Anna McNeill Whistler
(Hutchinson, 1939).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings, boards and page edges darkened, otherwise a good solid copy. 256pp. Order No. NSBK-C15943
Keywords: B00085PBVA, Anna McNeill Whistler, biographies, biography, women
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Sampson, Fiona.
In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein
(Profile Books, 2018).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C15752
Keywords: 9781781255285, women wrtiers, women, history, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, biography, biographies
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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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Thwaite, Ann.
Waiting for the Party: the Life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, 1849-1924
(Secker & Warburg, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library, lacks fly leaf, usual lib stamps & stickers, some white speckling to boards, otherwise good in dw. xii + 274pp. Order No. NSBK-C757
Keywords: 436521504, Frances Hodgson Burnett, children's writing, woman writer, women writers, literature, Secret Garden, The Little Princess, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies
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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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Monsarrat, Ann.
An Uneasy Victorian: Thackeray the Man, 1811-1863
(Cassell, 1980).
Hardback. Spine ends bumped, ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dustwrapper. 461pp. Order No. NSBK-A12202
Keywords: 0304305561, Thackeray, William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors
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Westall, Oliver, ed.
Innovation and Labour During British Industrialisation: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Harry Dutton, 1947-1984
(Huntington Publishers, 1985).
Hardback. Covers rubbed, otherwise good+. 92pp. Order No. NSBK-A11979
Keywords: 0906389097, Harry Dutton, Industrial Revolution, industrial, industrialisation, industrialization, nineteenth century, eighteenth century, industry, work, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, twentieth century, 20th, patents, food riots
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