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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Porter, Susan L. ed.
Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
(Mass UP, 1996).
Paperback. Very good. viii + 240pp. Order No. NSBK-C8449
Keywords: 1558490051, women, woman, women's history, Commonwealth, American, USA, United States, family, children, social changes, nineteenth century, Victorian, womanhood, gender, ethnicity, race, class, jobs, employment, employees, employers, families, sisterhood, women's studies, Massachusetts, Boston, Bostonians
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L'Esperance, Jeanne.
The Widening Sphere: Women in Canada 1870-1940
(National Library of Canada, 1982).
Text appears in both English and French. Paperback. Minor marginal annotation, small chip to front cover, otherwise good+. 63 + 69pp. Order No. NSBK-A8522
Keywords: 0662520084, Canada, Canadians, women, women's history, female, gender, la femme canadienne, nineteenth century, 19th century, Canadian
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Kramer, Ann.
Land Girls and their Impact:
(Remember When, Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008).
Hardback. Fine in dustwrapper. xxiii + 183pp. Order No. NSBK-C14607
Keywords: 1844680290, Ann Kramer, land girls, landgirls, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Second World War, World War II, Two, women and work, working women, Lady Gertrude Denman, Women's Timber Corps, WVS, Women's Voluntary Service, employment, jobs, pay, oral history, courting, courtship, Women's Land Army, Women's Forestry Corps, women's history
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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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Rosen, Ruth & Davidson, Sue, eds.
The Maimie Papers:
(Virago, rpt, 1979).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. xliv + 450pp. Order No. NSBK-C1077
Keywords: 0860681149, The Maimie Papers, American, America, United States, prostitution, prostitute, American women's history, American women, Virago
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Horn, Pamela.
The Victorian Country Child:
(Kineton/The Roundwood Press, 1974).
Hardback. Covers slightly soiled, marginal pencil annotation not affecting legbility, otherwise very good. xvi + 244pp. Order No. NSBK-C11001
Keywords: 0900093307, women, woman, gender, 1920s, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, fashion, Great War, social elite, middle class, wives, daughters, women and work, women's work, leisure, maternal, mothers, motherhood, mortality, countryside, professions, Victorian
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Bawden, Nina.
In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography
(Virago, 1994).
Hardback. Very good in dustwrapper. 175pp. Order No. NSBK-H13767
Keywords: 1853818712, Nina Bawden, women writers, women's writing, woman writer, females, feminine, writers, authors, authoresses, literature, fiction, , children's books,
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John, Angela V.
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life
(Tempus, rpt, 2007).
Paperback. Very good+. 384pp. Order No. NSBK-D15438
Keywords: 9780752440286, Elizabeth Robins, acting, theatre, stage, women' s suffrage, suffragettes, Edwardian, women's emancipation, actresses, actress, Ibsen, novelists, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, USA, America, American, entertainment, biography
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Suffragette Poster, .
Convicts, Lunatics and Women! Have No Vote for Parliament!: She: It is Time I Got Out of this Place - Where Shall I Find the KEY?
(Portrayer Publishers, rpt, 2003).
A modern reproduction of this suffragette poster by artist Emily J. Harding Andrews. (Originally published by the Artists' Suffrage League). Printed with archival inks on premium paper (300 GSM, Silk Art, photographic print). Poster (in brown, gold and cream sepia) shows an educated woman, wearing cap and gown, and standing inside locked gates with a convict and a "lunatic". Two books lean against the gates from the outside. Size of the paper is 450mm x 320mm and image is approx 435mm x 305mm. Poster. Brand new, fine. pp. Order No. NSBK-C6876
Keywords: B001F3GY7Y, Portrayer Publishers, suffragettes, suffragette poster, suffragette posters, Votes for Women, woman suffrage, history, women, enfranchisement, franchise, women's movement, politics, England, English, cartoons, suffrage, politics, anti-suffrage, male attitudes, images, imagery, women, women's, representations, pictures, poster, posters, enfranchisement, the franchise, reproductions, modern reproductions, print, prints, convicts, lunatics, convict, lunatic, Emily J. Harding Andrews, Artists' Suffrage League, Britain, British, Christmas gifts, suffragette ephemera
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