Sweeney, Patricia E.
Biographies of American Women: An Annotated Bibliography
(Santa Barbara, 1990).
Hardback. Fine. xi + 290pp. Order No. NSBK-A11014
Keywords: 0874360706, US, USA, United States, United States of America, America, American, The States, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, bibliography, bibliographies
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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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Down, Arthur, editor.
A Short Biography of Thomas John Down:
(John Walker, 1938).
Lacking one leaf in appendix (pg 225 - 226). Hardback. Lacking one leaf in appendix (pg 225 - 226). Some fading & wear to leather, mainly at spine & edges, otherwise a good solid copy. 229pp. Order No. NSBK-A13786
Keywords: B000WXVAQI, Warrington, Stockton Heath, bands, bandsmen, Thomas John Down, memoir, band, orchestra, military bands, history, music, concerts, North-West. Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, memoirs, biography, biographies, Victorian, 19th century, nineteenth
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Bolt, Rodney.
As Good as God, As Clever as the Devil: The Impossible Life of Mary Benson
(Atlantic Books, 2011).
Hardback. With newspaper reviews pasted to endpapers, otherwise very good in dustwrapper. xxii + 362pp. Order No. NSBK-C16028
Keywords: 9781843548614, hall, Mary Benson, biography, biographies, Bensons, literature, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th, history
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Feuchtwanger, E. J.
Gladstone:
(Allen Lane, rpt., 1975).
Paperback. Spine and cover creased, otherwise good+. x + 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A11005
Keywords: 0713908289, Gladstone, British, Prime Ministers, Liberal, Liberalism, politics, Parliament, biography, Britain, British, England, English, history, biography, biographies, biographical, lives, life, life histories, life history, Victorian, nineteenth century, 19th
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Bell, E. Moberly.
Octavia Hill: a Biography
(Constable, 1942).
With a foreword by Sir Reginald Rowe. 8 illustrations. Hardback. Some marking and splashing to green cloth, fading at spine and wear to corners, otherwise a good solid copy. xvi + 297pp. Order No. NSBK-C1245
Keywords: B0007IWCYW, Octavia Hill, biography, biographies, housing, Victorian social reformers, reform, philanthropy, town planning, open spaces, settlements, dwellings, poverty, poor, paupers, pauperism, Britain, England, English, British, National Trust, commons, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender, stored near piano
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Kingston-upon-Hull City Council, .
Silvered Wings: A Commemorative Brochure
(Kingston-upon-Hull CC, 1980).
The story of Amy Johnson. Produced for the Amy Johnson Festival, Kingston-Upon-Hull, 3rd - 24th May 1980. Paperback. Light soiling to covers, otherwise very good. pp. Order No. NSBK-C9692
Keywords: B000HC6XGQ, Amy Johnson, aircraft, aeroplanes, aviators, women, woman, history, Britain, British, England, English, wings, biographical, biographies, biography, lives, life, gender, women's work, Hull, twentieth century, 20th, planes, aviation
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Sandford, Christopher.
Sting: Demolition Man
(Little, Brown and Company, 1998).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, felt tip markings on two pages, otherwise good in dustwrapper. xiii + 350pp. Order No. NSBK-A9374
Keywords: 0316643726, Sting, music, musicians, singers, twentieth century, 20th, biography, biographical, biographies, solo, The Police, Gordon Sumner
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Margery, Susan, Guerin, Caroline, Hamilton, P, ed.
Writing Lives: Feminist Biography and Autobiography
(Australian Feminist Publications, 1992).
Paperback. Covers slightly yellowed, otherwise very good. xi + 169pp. Order No. NSBK-C15784
Keywords: women's autobiographies, biographies, women writers
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Clutterbuck, Nesta, ed.
William Wordsworth, 1770-1970: Essays of General Interest on Wordsworth and his Time
(Trustees Dove Cottage, 1970).
Paperback. Good. 45pp. Order No. NSBK-A5739
Keywords: 0950123803, William Wordsworth, Lake Poets, Lake District, poets, poetry, poems, life histories, life history, biographies, biography, biographical, Dove Cottage, Romantics, Romantic, Cumbria, Romanticism, literature, literary
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