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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Yonge, Charlotte.
The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade
(Macmillan and Co, 1908).
Hardback. Red boards slightly soiled; corners worn and spine faded; slightly splitting internally at spine, otherwise good. x + 259pp. Order No. NSBK-C6066
Keywords: B000HC4R5K, Charlotte Mary Yonge, Charlotte M. Yonge, writing for children, children's books, child, women writers, women's history, Victorian, Edwardian, prince, page, literature, literary, story, stories, novels, novelists, fiction, crusade
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Anderson, Bonnie S.
Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860
(OUP, 2000).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 288pp. Order No. NSBK-C13629
Keywords: 0195143973, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, politics, political, feminism, feminists, The First International Women's Movement
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Shahar, Shulamith.
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in The Middle Ages
(Methuen, 1983).
Paperback. Very good. xii + 351pp. Order No. NSBK-C12758
Keywords: 0416368107, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, medieaval, medieval, middle ages, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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Hobbs, Margaret and Sangster Joan.
The Woman Worker, 1926-1929:
(Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999).
Paperback. Near fine. 284pp. Order No. NSBK-A12324
Keywords: 1894000013, Canada, Canadian, labour history, labor history, work, worker, employees, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, twentieth century, 20th
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Radner, Hilary.
Shopping Around: Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
(Routledge, 1995).
Paperback. With very minor pencil annotation not affecting legibility, otherwise very good. xiv + 216pp. Order No. NSBK-C12426
Keywords: 0415905400, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, pleasure, shopping, consumption, feminism, feminists
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Spongberg, Mary.
Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse
(New York UP, 1997).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. x + 231pp. Order No. NSBK-D15439
Keywords: 9780814780602, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, prostitution, prostitutes, medicine, medical discourse, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, crime
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Duby, Georges.
Women of the Twelfth Century: Volume Three: Eve and the Church
(Polity Press + University of Chicago, Rpt., 1998).
Translated by Eve Birrell. Paperback. Very good+. 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C12763
Keywords: 0745619495, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, medieval, 12th century, twelfth century
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Buswell, Carol.
Women in Contemporary Society:
(Macmillan, 1989).
Issues in Sociology. Paperback. Fine. ix + 147pp. Order No. NSBK-A11243
Keywords: 0333461312, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, society, feminism, feminists, work, media, politics, family, edcuation
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Nicholson, Joyce.
What Society Does to Girls:
(Virago, 1977).
Paperback. Scratch to front cover, otherwise good. 80pp. Order No. NSBK-C12975
Keywords: 0860680215, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, feminism, feminists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, twentieth century, 20th
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