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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Smith, Clifford P.
Sketches from the Life of Mary Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science:
(Christian Science Publ., 1934).
Historical and Biographical Papers Series. Paperback. Covers slightly thumbed, otherwise good. vi + 103pp. Order No. NSBK-C2053
Keywords: B0006AMHUA, Mary Baker Eddy, Eddy, Christian Science, Christian Scientist, America, American, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, religion, women's 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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Gilchrist, Mrs.
Mary Lamb:
(W. H. Allen, new edition, 1889).
Eminent Women Series. Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and markings. Cloth darkened, with some wear to corners, otherwise good. xii + 255pp. Order No. NSBK-A14457
Keywords: B002B9FKZS, Mary Lamb, women writers, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, history, literature, eighteenth century, nineteenth century, Romanticism
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Wilbur, Sibyl.
The Life of Mary Baker Eddy:
(Christian Science Pub, rpt, 1923).
Hardback. Endpapers mottled, spine incomplete, corners worn, otherwise internally good. xvi + 406pp. Order No. NSBK-C2775
Keywords: B0000E7O0W, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science, America, USA, religion, American women, American women's history, United States, USA, biography, women's history
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Hobman, D. L.
Go Spin You Jade: Studies in the Emancipation of Women
(Watts, 1957).
Hardback. Very good in soiled dustwrapper. 152pp. Order No. NSBK-C8343
Keywords: B0000CJV3I, history of women, women's history, women's rights, emancipation, Queen Elizabeth 1st, Sir Thomas More, Charlotte Charke, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Elstob, Daniel Defoe, Mary Astell, Mrs Macaulay, Charlotte Lennox, the Blue Stockings, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Caroline Norton, Harriet Martineau, Josephine Butler, Contagious Disease Acts, eductaion, religion, church, medicine, Sophia Jex-Blake, Olive Schreiner, Mrs Fawcett, NUWSS, Pankhurst, Eleanor Rathbone
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Evans, Mary and Ungerson, Clare, eds.
Sexual Divisions: Patterns and Processes
(Tavistock Publications, 1983).
Paperback. Good. x + 213pp. Order No. NSBK-C9139
Keywords: 0422784400, women, women's history, woman, women's studies, labour, labor, sexual division of labour, female subordination, schools, the law, mental health services, housing, employment, work, women and work, women's work, women workers, unemployment
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Stocks, Mary.
My Commonplace Book: an Autobiography
(Peter Davies, rpt, 1970).
Women's suffrage; the welfare state; the L.S.E.; adult education; the Great Depression in Manchester; social work in London; a variety of government assignments. Hardback. X Library with usual library stamps. Lacks flyleaf, otherwise good. ix + 246pp. Order No. NSBK-C779
Keywords: 0432157506, suffrage, suffragette, women's rights, L.S.E., the Great Depression, adult education, Manchester, London, social work, welfare state, England, Britain, history, English, British
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Berry, Mary Frances.
Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution
(Indiana UP, 1986).
Hardback. Ex library with minimal library stamps and stickers, otherwise good+ in dw. ix + 142pp. Order No. NSBK-C6126
Keywords: 0253365376, ERA, women's rights, politics, USA, America, American, USA, United States, women's history, women's movement, Constitution, suffrage, social reform, congress, Equal Rights Amendment, black history, Civil rights, child labour, labor, woman suffrage
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Afshar, Haleh and Maynard, Mary, eds.
The Dynamics of Race and Gender:
(Taylor and Francis, 1994).
Paperback. Very good. vii + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C10958
Keywords: race, gender, ethnciity, women, racism
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