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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Deem, Rosemary,ed.
Co-Education Reconsidered:
(Open UP, 1984).
Gender and Education Series. Paperback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good+. xx + 108pp. Order No. NSBK-C15978
Keywords: 9780335104178, shed, women, education, co-education, girls, learning, schools
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Davidoff, Leonore.
The Best Circles: Society, Etiquette and The Season
(Croom Helm, 1973).
Hardback. Fly-leaf clipped. Minor pencil annotation, otherwise very good in dustwrapper which has minor tears. 127pp. Order No. NSBK-C12312
Keywords: 9780856640513, stored in hall, women, women's history, woman, nineteenth century, 19th, etiquette, morals, manners, social life, Victorian, British, Britain, England, English, season, dress, women and work, women's work, Leonore Davidoff, Edwardian, 20th, twentieth
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Berg, Maxine, ed.
Technology and Toil in Nineteenth Century Britain: Documents
(CSE Books, 1979).
Paperback. Good. 246pp. Order No. NSBK-A4939
Keywords: 0906336031, Britain, British, history, England, English, toil, labour, labor, work, nineteenth century,m Victorian, industry, pin money, weaving, factory, factories, textiles, steel making, steam engines, lead foundries, shipbuilding, boot and shoe trade, workshop, industrialisation, industrialization, coal, saw mills, machines, working class, working classes, working-class
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West, Rebecca.
Sunflower:
(Virago, 1986).
Afterword by Victoria Glendinning. Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 276pp. Order No. NSBK-C5736
Keywords: 1872082114, Rebecca West, Sunflower, novels, novelist, literature, fiction, women writers, woman writer, Victoria Glendinning, Cicily, Isabel Fairfield
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Davies, Laura.
Laura Davies: Naturally:
(Bloomsbury, 1996).
With Lewine Mair. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise very good in bright but slightly creased dustwrapper. 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C10570
Keywords: 0747527644, Laura Davies, golf, women golfers, ladies, sport, lady, sporting, twentieth century, 20th, fairways, Britain, British, England, English, history, woman
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Royal Commission on Equal Pay, .
Royal Commission on Equal Pay: 1944 - 46 Report
(HMSO, 1946).
Important source material on the gender division of labour in the 1940s. Paperback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, some damage to binding at spine ends, (front cover detached by 2 inches at top), otherwise good. xi + 220pp. Order No. NSBK-A7688
Keywords: equal pay, pay, employment, Royal Commission on Equal Pay, reports, gender, gender division of labour, labour, history, labor, industry, industries, women, men, workers, teaching, public service, local government, employees, wages, economy, economic, professions, law, period sources, jobs, occupations, booklet
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Maynard, Mary and Purvis, June, eds.
(Hetero)sexual Politics:
(Taylor and Francis, 1995).
Women's Studies Network. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. vi + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A12393
Keywords: 0748402950, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, heterosexuality, politics, masculinity, males
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Leonard, Diana and Allen, Sheila, eds.
Sexual Divisions Revisited:
(Macmillan, 1991).
Hardback. With reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xi + 198pp. Order No. NSBK-C9599
Keywords: 0333472535, feminism, feminists, theories, theory, differences, epistemology, women, woman, females, gender, women's liberation movement, motherhood, marital, marriage, housework, women's studies
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Bryson, Valerie.
Feminist Political Theory: an Introduction
(Macmillan, 1992).
Paperback. Covers lightly soiled, otherwise very good. xiii + 304pp. Order No. NSBK-C2340
Keywords: 0333516362, feminism, politics, women and politics, political theory, history of ideas, political
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