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Laugh a Defiance.
by RICHARDSON, Mary
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson,, 1953. First edition, first impression, of this scarce and significant suffragette autobiography. Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3-1961) was a Canadian suffragette who lived in the UK. She was a devoted supporter of Emmeline Pankhurst, one of the dedicatees of this title, and contributed to the more militant tactics of the movement, including arson and her 1914 defacement of the Rokeby Venus. She was arrested nine times, and was one of the first two women force-fed, released, and re-arrested under the 1913 Cat and Mouse Act; the WSPU awarded her the Hunger Strike Medal for Valour. In 1932, she joined the British Union of Fascists, and became head of the Women's Section of the party in 1934, although she left within two years after becoming disillusioned with the sincerity of the party's policy on women. The title of this book is taken from Dame Ethel Smyth's "The March of the Women". This copy is inscribed on the front free endpaper to one Georgina Pearson, "To Georgina, with best wishes on your birthday, from, Jenny, July 1956", with Pearson's ownership signature above. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine and extremities sunned, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, lower edges rubbed, slight foxing to edges and endleaves. A very good copy in good jacket, price-clipped, toned and lightly foxed, tape repair to verso of foot of spine, a few chips and nicks to edges, short closed tears to flap folds.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 161594
- Title
- Laugh a Defiance.
- Author
- RICHARDSON, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson,
- Date Published
- 1953
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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