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Laugh a Defiance [Suffragette interest]

Name: Laugh a Defiance [Suffragette interest]
Author: RICHARDSON, Mary R.[aleigh]

Book Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 194. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine cocked, corners bumped, edges toned and foxed. POI and stippled patch of ink offsetting to ffep, a few fox spots to feps. Else, clean. In the striking original dust jacket: toned and rubbed, patches of foxing, chipped at extremities, short closed tear to front panel, nevertheless, the DJ art remains striking. Unusual in the trade, especially in the dust jacket

Dealer Notes

Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3-1961) was a Canadian suffragette, socialist and later fascist (serving as organising secretary of the British Union of Fascists women's section), active in Britain. She undertook militant action in the struggle for suffrage, most famously attacking the Rokeby Venus to draw attention to the plight of Emmeline Pankhurst, who was then on hunger strike in Holloway prison, declaiming: "You can get another picture but you cannot get a life, as they are killing Mrs Pankhurst" (ODNB). Many museums subsequently closed their doors to unaccompanied women. Richardson served 18 months hard labour and was one of the first women to be force fed under the 1913 'Cat and Mouse Act'. Her autobiography offers a sensationalised account of her role in the suffrage movement. Seller Inventory # 2340

Author RICHARDSON, Mary R.[aleigh]

Publisher London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Condition Good+/good+

Price: £175.00

Offered by Quair Books

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