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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Black, Naomi and Brandt, Gail Cuthbert.
Feminist Politics on the Farm: Rural Catholic Women in Southern Quebec and Southwestern France
(McGill-Queen's UP, 1999).
Hardback. Light blemishing to base of front board, otherwise very good. xii + 295pp. Order No. NSBK-C8212
Keywords: 0773518282, agrarian, rural, country, countryside, women, women's history, woman, Catholic, Catholicism, religion, religious, Canada, Canadian, Quebec, France, French, farms, farming, farm, demography, demographic, farm women, feminism, feminist, mass, twenieth century, 20th, farming, farmers
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Constantine, Stephen, ed.
Dominions Diary: The Letters of E. J. Harding, 1913-1916
(Ryburn Publishing, 1992).
Hardback. A slight waviness across tops of pages (the effects of minor damp), otherwise very good. 336pp. Order No. NSBK-A7418
Keywords: 1853310182, E. J. Harding, letters, correspondence, diaries, twentieth century, travel, the British Empire, Imperialism, 20th, Australia, New Zealand, South African, New Foundland, Canada, Canadian, autobiography, autobiographical, life history, life histories, colonies, colonialism, colony
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Clifford, Geraldine Joncich, ed.
Lone Voyagers: Academic Women in Coeducational Institutions, 1870 - 1937
(Feminist Press, 1989).
Paperback. Good. xii + 311pp. Order No. NSBK-C7908
Keywords: 0935312854, academic, women, female, education, women's education, coeducational institutions, college, colleges, USA, America, American, United States of America, 19th, 20th, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Canada, Canadian, higher education, university, universities, educated women, academia
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Simpson, Patricia.
Marguerite Bourgeoys and Montreal, 1640-1665:
(McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997).
Paperback. Very good. xiv + 247pp. Order No. NSBK-C15485
Keywords: 0773516417, Marguerite Bourgeoys, Montreal, Canada, Canadian, religion, religious, Congregation de Notre-Dame de Montreal
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Walsh, Margaret, ed.
Motor Transport:
(Ashgate, 1997).
Studies in Transport History. Hardback. Fine. xxiii + 212pp. Order No. NSBK-A10253
Keywords: 1859283454, motors, motor industry, cars, automobiles, markets, marketing, bus, buses, transport, Locomobile, Britain, British, England, English, history, American, USA, United States, Canada, Canadian, twentieth century, 20th, travel
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Bradbury, Bettina.
Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrialising Montreal
(Oxford UP, 1993).
Paperback. Some pencil annotation, otherwise very good. 310pp. Order No. NSBK-C9204
Keywords: 0195412117, working, families, family, gender, age, Montreal, Canada, Canadian, industrial, industrialising, industry, city, wages, women, woman, capitalism, capital
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Warkentin, John & Harris, R. Cole.
Canada Before Confederation: a Study in Historical Geography
(OUP, 2nd printing, 1975).
Paperback. Good. xiv + 338pp. Order No. NSBK-A3864
Keywords: 0195017919, Canada, Canadian, historical geography, Quebec, Ontario, British Columbia, history, Western Interior
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Montgomery, L. M.
Chronicles of Avonlea:
(Harrap, rpt., 1974).
Hardback. Some slight staining to front and back end papers, brd edges slightly faded, otherwise good. 236pp. Order No. NSBK-C5953
Keywords: 0245555617, Avonlea, Anne of Avonlea, L. M. Montgomery, Prince Edward Island, fiction, novels, woman writer, women writers, novelists, literature, literary, girls', girlhood, youth, Canada, Canadian
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Friesen, John W.
When Cultures Clash:
(Detselig Enterprises Ltd, 2nd edit.,1993).
Paperback. Good+. 208pp. Order No. NSBK-A13054
Keywords: 1550590693, cultures, Canada, Canadian, multicultural, multiculturalism
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