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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Butler, Josephine E.
Some Thoughts on the Present Aspect of the Crusade: Against the State Regulation Of Vice
(Portrayer, 2002 reprint of 1874 text).
No 1 in the Open Archive Occasional Series. Booklet. New booklet, fine. 12pp. Order No. NSBK-C6304
Keywords: B001C3VNMS, Josephine E. Butler, education, social history, women, women's history, Victorian, nineteenth century, Britain, British, England, English, equality, gender roles, working women, women workers, Portrayer, Portrayer Publishers, Personal Reminiscences of a Great Crusade, prostitution, prostitutes, State Regulation of Vice, Contagious Diseases Act, social purity, Liverpool, Open Archive Occasional Series, new title, booklet
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Richardson, Joanna.
Stendhal: A Biography
(Victor Gollancz, 1974).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, sellotape marks to boards, otherwise good in bright dustwrapper. 344pp. Order No. NSBK-A11846
Keywords: 0575018704, Stendhal, France, French, novels, literature, literary, novelists, fiction, writers, writing, authors, nineteenth century, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Marie-Henri Beyle, French Romantic Movement, Romanticism, French Consular Service
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Rai, S, Pilkington, H, Phizacklea, A, eds.
Women in the Face of Change: The Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China
(Routledge, 1992).
Paperback. Very good. x + 227pp. Order No. NSBK-C2820
Keywords: Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Russia, USSR, China, Poland, 0 415 07541 6, women's history
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Brown, Heloise.
The Truest Form of Patriotism: Pacifist Feminism in Britain, 1870 - 1902
(MUP, 2003).
Hardback. A little bumping to top and bottom edges, otherwise very good. viii + 199pp. Order No. NSBK-C14371
Keywords: 0719065305, pacifism, pacifists, feminism, history, Heloise Brown, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth century, Priscilla Peckover, Ellen Robinson, women's suffrage, peace associations, Anglo-Boer War, Boer War, philanthropy, international diplomacy, suffragettes
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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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Taylor, Craig, translator. La Pucelle.
Joan of Arc: La Pucelle
(Manchester University Press, 2006).
Hardback. Fine. xii + 370pp. Order No. NSBK-C14624
Keywords: 9780719068461, Joan of Arc, Rouen, trial, trials, fifteenth century, 15th century, history, France, French, women, martyrs, early modern history, women's
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Butler, R.F and Prichard, M. H., eds.
The Society of Oxford Home-Students: Retrospects and Recollections (1879-1921)
(The Oxonian Press, 1921 ?).
Hardback. Very good. 141pp. Order No. NSBK-A12649
Keywords: B00088FGQC, The Society of Oxford Home Students, higher education, education, educational, university, universities, colleges, academia, academe, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, twentieth century, 20th, women's education
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Addis, E., Russo, V. E. and Sebesta, L.
Women Soldiers: Images and Realities
(St Martin's Press, 1994).
Hardback. Very good + with newspaper cutting pasted to inside front page. xxiv + 184pp. Order No. NSBK-C12430
Keywords: 0333600932, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, soldiers, images, representation, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States
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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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