Adams, W.S.
Edwardian Portraits:
(Secker and Warburg, 1957).
Hardback. Page edges mottled, otherwise good in soiled, slightly chipped dustwrapper. vii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A9900
Keywords: B0000CJTJT, Edwardian Portraits, William Scovell Adams, Baden-Powell, Leverhulme, Wilfred Scawen Blunt, E. D. Morel, Edward VII, monarchy, royalty, kings, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, biographies, biography, lives, life histories, life history
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Down, Michael.
Archie: A Biography of A. C. MacLaren
(George Allen and Unwin, 1981).
Hardback. Very good in slightly soiled, slightly dented dustwrapper. xii + 193pp. Order No. NSBK-A5841
Keywords: 0047960566, biography, biographies, biographical, life history, life histories, Archie C. McLaren, cricket, cricketers, cricketing, sport, sportsmen, sportsman, A. C. MacLaren, Golden Age, entertainment, leisure, sporting heroes, Britain, British, England, English, history
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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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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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Petersen, William.
Malthus:
(Heinneman, 1979).
Hardback. Fly leaf clipped, otherwise very good in chipped dustwrapper. vi + 302pp. Order No. NSBK-A8250
Keywords: 043554800X, Thomas Robert Malthus, economists, economy, population, people, fertility, mortality, economics, economy, biography, biographies, biographical, history of ideas, nineteenth century, Britain, British, birth-control, contraception, demography, demographic, Malthusian, Darwinianism, Social Darwinianism
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Oakley, Ann.
A Critical Woman: Barbara Wootton, Social Science and Public Policy in the Twentieth Century
(Bloomsbury, 2011).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf. Some marks left by pastedowns to endpapers, a small single tear to dustwrapper, otherwise a very good clean copy. xix + 426pp. Order No. NSBK-C15700
Keywords: 9781849664684, Ann Oakley, Barbara Wootton, sociology, public policy, biography, biographies, social science, women, history
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Jenkins, Garry.
Daniel Day-Lewis: The Fire Within
(Sidgwick & Jackson, 1994).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. 294pp. Order No. NSBK-A10325
Keywords: 028306238X, Daniel Day-Lewis, actors, plays, stage, dramas, biographies, biography, biographical, history, twentieth century, 20th, Ireland, Irish, lives, life histories, life history
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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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Bentley, Eric.
Bernard Shaw:
(Methuen, 2nd British edition, 1967).
Hardback. Lacks fly leaf; ex-library with usual library stamps & stickers, a good working copy in slightly yellowed, creased dustwrapper. xviii + 204pp. Order No. NSBK-A7591
Keywords: B0000CNJNK, George Bernard Shaw, biography, biographies, history, literature, literary, politics, religion, drama, theatre, plays, Shavian, stage
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Seymer, Lucy Ridgely.
Florence Nightingale:
(Faber and Faber, 1950).
Hardback. Blue cloth somewhat browned with age and slightly marked, some wear to edges, otherwise a good copy. xiv + 154pp. Order No. NSBK-C13604
Keywords: B0000CHR3I, Crimean War, nursing, women's history, Florence Nightingale, Victorian, Britain, British, England, English, history, nurses, nurse, hospital, hospitals, 19th century, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, India
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