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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Taylor, Joan.
Mary Martha of Stanford:
(Joan Taylor, 1975).
Booklet. Paperback. Covers slightly browned, marked, otherwise good. 24pp. Order No. NSBK-A13942
Keywords: B001DCPEZ0, Mary Martha of Stanford, Mrs Sherwood, history, children's authors, women writers, Teme Valley, Stanford Rectory, Mary Martha Butt, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, booklet
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Hewins, Angela.
Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl
(OUP, 1985).
Foreword by Paul Thompson. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, lacks fly leaf, otherwise good in slightly creased dustwrapper. xv + 122pp. Order No. NSBK-C5402
Keywords: 0192122428, Queens, Queen Mary, royalty, monarchs, monarchs, Hewins, Stratford, autobiography, autobiographies, life history, life histories, memoirs, twentieth century, working class, working-class, women's history, Stratford upon Avon
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Wedin, Carolyn.
Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of the NAACP
(John Wiley & Sons, 1998).
Foreword by David Levering Lewis. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xv + 367pp. Order No. NSBK-C10243
Keywords: 0471168386, American, USA, United States, USA, Civil Rights Movement, civil rights, black history, Mary White Ovingham, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, feminism, feminists, race, racism, slavery, class
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Livingstone, W.P.
Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary
(Hodder & Stoughton, Popular edition, 34th edition, 1931).
With illustrations. Scottish factory girl, 1848-1915, and her missionary work in the tropics. Hardback. Rubbing to corners and spine ends, splitting to tops spine edge (3 inches), a little spotting to boards, otherwise good/firm. x + 352pp. Order No. NSBK-C370
Keywords: B000855ZWA, tropics, Mary Slessor, Slessor, missionary, Scotland, pioneer, women travellers, woman traveller, women travelers, women traveler, missionaries
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Bolt, Rodney.
As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
(Atlantic Books, 2011).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xxii + 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C16028
Keywords: 9781843548614, hall, Mary Benson, biography, biographies, Bensons, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history
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Manton, Jo.
Mary Carpenter and the Children of the Streets:
(Heinemann, 1976).
Hardback. Very good in slightly yellowed dustwrapper creased at edges. 268pp. Order No. NSBK-C13437
Keywords: 9780435325695, children, childhood, Mary Carpenter, streets, poverty, poor, crime, criminals, child abuse, juvenile delinquency, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, beggars, begging, prisons, Bristol, India
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Gooddie, Sheila.
Mary Gladstone: A Gentle Rebel
(John Wiley, 2003).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xiv + 258pp. Order No. NSBK-C15927
Keywords: 9780470854235, Gladstone, Mary Gladstone, women's history, Victorian, Hawarden, Gladstones, politics
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Pack of 10 Suffragette Greetings Cards, .
Miss Mary Gawthorpe: Mary Eleanor Gawthorpe, 1881 - 1973
(Portrayer Publishers, 2009).
Pack of 10 greetings cards (all featuring the same design). Card measurements are 6 inches high by 4 inches wide and each card is complete with cellophane wrapper and envelope. Blank interiors for your own message or for any occasion. The image of Mary Gawthorpe is taken from a contemporary photographic postcard, c. 1911. She was a leading suffragette from Yorkshire, who became the full-time organiser of the WSPU in Leeds in 1906. Please note that the sample electronic image, unlike the cards themselves, is watermarked and reduced in quality, to prevent image theft. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C14483
Keywords: suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, women's rights, Votes for Women, women and politics, women's politics, politics, Britain, British, England, English, history, greeting card, greeting cards, cards, suffragette images, suffragettes, propaganda, suffrage imagery, card, picture, pictures, art, suffragette art, art, arts, illustration, illustrations, twentieth century, 20th century, twentieth century, portrayer, portrayer publishers, suffragette greetings cards, greetings card, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera, new, Mary Gawthorpe, Leeds, Yorkshire, WSPU
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Howard, Cecil.
Mary Kingsley:
(Hutchinson, 2nd impression, 1957).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps & stickers, otherwise good in chipped dustwrapper. 231pp. Order No. NSBK-C448
Keywords: B0007J1T72, Mary Kingsley, woman traveller, women travellers, woman traveler, women travelers, Victorian, nineteenth century, women's history, Britain, British, England, English, African, history, West Africa
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