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[ Marie Stopes ] Autograph Signature, "M.C. Stopes" on detached album leaf.

Author: 
Marie Charlotte Carmichael Stopes (1880–1958), author, palaeobotanist and campaigner for eugenics and women's rights
Publication details: 
No place or date given.
£20.00

Signature on detached leaf from album, 17.5 x 11cm, good condition.

[Elaine Greene, Literary Agent, sister-in-law of Graham Greene] The small archive of mainly correspondence between Literary Agent and Author-Client

Author: 
Elaine Greene (later Lady Greene)(1920-1987), Literary Agent, American-born sometime sister-in-law of novelist Graham Greene, married to his brother, Hugh Carleton Greene; [ R.P. Lister, author ]
Publication details: 
[1962-1969].
£620.00

"One of the top [literary] agents in London"The extensive correspondence, business and personal, between Elaine Greene and Elaine Greene Literary Agency, and R.P. Lister [Richard Percival Lister], travel-writer, novelist, poet, contributor to periodicals, and eventually friend. He published extensively in the USA. As well as the UK.Elaine Greene to Lister: Twenty-five (25) Typed Letters and Notes Signed ("Elaine Greene" becomes a cordial "Elaine"), total 27pp., 8vo and 4to, 14 Dec. 1962-10 April 1969.

[ Emily Faithfull, printer and women's activist. ] Printed circular in form of facsimile letter, regarding the foundation of the 'Victoria Magazine', addressed in autograph to 'Mr O'Beirne'.

Author: 
Emily Faithfull (1835-1895), publisher and women's activist, proprietor of the Victoria Press and Victoria Magazine
Publication details: 
On letterhead of the Victoria Press, Princes Street, Hanover Square, W. [ London ] Undated [ 1863 ].
£80.00

1p., 12mo. In fair condition, on aged paper. Letterhead printed in green. The circular is in the form of a facsimile of Faithfull's handwriting, with the words 'Mr O'Beirne' added in her genuine hand. Reads: 'Miss Faithfull presents her Compliments to [ Mr O'Beirne. ] | She is asking all who are interested in her work to order "the Victoria" for one year, during which it is expected to establish itself by its literary merits.' Faithfull had opened the Victoria Press at Great Coram Street in 1860. In 1863 she founded the Victoria Magazine. It ceased publication in 1880.

[Elizabeth Rundle Charles, Victorian author and hymn-writer.] Autograph Letter Signed ('Bessie Charles') to 'Mrs Leader'

Author: 
Bessie Charles [ Elizabeth Rundle Charles ] (1828-1896), author of 'The Chronicles of the Schönberg-Cotta Family' (1862)
Publication details: 
7 Victoria Street, Westminster. 'Sunday' [no date].
£45.00

2pp., 12mo. Bifolium. With mourning border. In fair condition, on lightly aged and ruckled paper. Declining a dinner invitation and expressing regret at not being able to call, being 'very much occupied'.

[Lady Mayoress of Liverpool] Autograph Note Signed 'Winifred Rathbone' to "Mr Abraham".

Author: 
Winifred Rathbone, Lady Mayoress of Liverpool, etc.
Publication details: 
[Printed heading] Liverpool Women's War Service Bureau, late Lady Mayoress' Bureau, I gambier Terrace, Liverpool. 7 January [1918?].
£32.00

One page, 12mo, good condition. She thanks him for the trouble he's taken over the "Teddy Bear material". Some items sent ('patterns'?) are the cheapest found so far.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Marriage-Law Injustice, Objections to the Divorce Act, with Suggested Amendments.

Author: 
Fredk. A. Binney [Frederick Altona Binney] [Palmer & Howe, Manchester printers] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Manchester: Palmer & Howe, Bond Street. 1876.
£80.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Copies in copyroight libraries. None on market currently.

[MS. Diaries; Munich; Music] Five volumes of autograph diaries, covering four 'seasons' studying under Bussmeyer, Beer-Walbrun and Schmid-Lindner at the Royal Academy of Music, Munich; with descriptions of concerts by notable musicians.

Author: 
Sheena Lilian Grant Kendall (1883-1974), daughter of James Tennant (1852-1933) of Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, and niece of Margot Asquith [Royal Academy of Music, Munich]
Publication details: 
München: Königliche Akademie der Tonkunst [Munich: Royal Academy of Music.] Between 20 September 1904 and 2 March 1908.
£2,500.00

The present diaries paint a vivid and evocative picture of four 'seasons' of study at the Royal Academy of Music, Munich, by an intelligent, articulate, talented and ambitious female student, from a privileged Scottish background, and present an informative account of the musical milieu in Munich at the turn of the twentieth century, with assessments of various notable musical figures including Edvard Grieg, Ferruccio Busoni, Felix Weingartner, Joseph Joachim, Théophile Ysaÿe, Édouard Risler, Emil von Sauer, Aleksandr Abramovich Pechnikov, George Liebling, Frederic Lamond, Teresa Carreño, Bert

[Manuscript & Typescript] The Poems of Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist, Irish Nationalist.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, Poet, Novelist, Irish Nationalist, key fiigure in Book Society.
Publication details: 
[b.1888-1952].
£1,800.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[Manuscript Correspondence] Letters of Sylvia Lynd to her father Alfred Robert Dryhurst.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist, Irish nationalist [and her father, Alfred Robert Dryhurst of the British Museum]
Publication details: 
Sylvia Lynd (1888-1952), letters dated 1898-1944; Alfred Robert Dryhurst (1898-1949)
£950.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[Manuscript and Typescript] The Prose of Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist, Irish nationalist.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist, Irish nationalist, key figure in the Book (and literary) Society.
Publication details: 
b.1888, d.1952.
£950.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[MANUSCRIPT] The Diaries of Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist and Irish nationalist.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, Poet, Novelist and Irish Nationalist
Publication details: 
[1935-1940]
£4,500.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[Manuscript; illustrated] The Children's Stories of Sylvia Lynd (unpublished), post nove;list and Irish Nationalist.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist and Irish Nationalist.
Publication details: 
b.1888, d.1952.
£1,200.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[Mainly Typescripts] The Autobiographical Writings of Sylvia Lynd, poet, novelist, and Irish nationalist.

Author: 
Sylvia Lynd, Poet, Novelist and Irish Nationalist
Publication details: 
[b.1888-1952]
£2,500.00

Note: Sylvia Lynd, née Dryhurst, poet, novelist, reviewer, significant member of the Book Society, Irish nationalist, daughter of anarchist and suffragette, Nannie Dryhurst (1888-1952).

[Female and child labour in Victorian factories; printed pamphlet.] Factory Acts Amendment Bill. Speeches of Professor Fawcett, M.P., and Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P., on the Adjourned Debate, on Wednesday, July 30, 1873.

Author: 
Professor Fawcett, M.P. [Henry Fawcett], and Sir Thomas Bazley, M.P. [Millicent Garrett Fawcett; Factory Acts Amendment Bill, 1873]
Publication details: 
London: Macmillan and Co. 1873. [London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, Printers.]
£150.00

40pp., 8vo. In fair condition, aged and worn, no wraps, disbound. On pp.36-40: 'Letter to the Editor of The Times, from Mrs. Fawcett', signed at end 'Millicent Garrett Fawcett. | June 7.'

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Right of Women to Labour. Being Portions of an Essay, re-printed by Permission from "Woman's Work and Woman's Culture."

Author: 
John Boyd Kinnear [Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; 'Woman's Work and Woman's Culture', London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] London: Printed by Frederick Bell & Co., Chelsea, S.W. 1873.
£80.00

14pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, no wraps, disbound.

[Charlotte Mary Yonge, English writer.] Autograph Card Signed ('C M Yonge') to 'My dear Anna [Macirone]', making an arrangement to 'look up' a State Trial (at the British Museum Reading Room?).

Author: 
Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823-1901), English Victorian novelist
Publication details: 
In envelope with Winchester postmark dagted 1 August 1892.
£56.00

Written out by Yonge on both sides of a card, and placed in an envelope with penny lilac stamp and postmarks, addressed by Yonge to 'Miss Marcironi [sic] | 126 Adelaide Road | London | NW'. In fair condition, lightly-aged, the card with central horizontal and vertical folds.

[Agnes Strickland, historical writer.] Autograph Letter Signed to 'dear kind Mrs. Fortescue' [Frances Anne Fortescue], regarding her book 'The Lives of the Seven Bishops' and 'occasional pleasant chats together in the lovely gardens at Fulham Palace'

Author: 
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874), English historical writer and poet [Frances Anne Fortescue (1818-1868), daughter of William Spooner, Archdeacon of Coventry, and sister of Catharine Tait]
Publication details: 
41 Manchester Street, Manchester Square [London]. 6 August 1866.
£56.00

3pp., 12mo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly aged. She thanks her for the care she took of her pocket handkerchief, and for the 'truly friendly note which gave great pleasure'. She is glad she was pleased with her book 'The Lives of the Seven Bishops Committed to the Tower in 1688', and hope she will accept a copy, 'as a trifling remembrance of me and our occasional pleasant chats together, in the lovely gardens at Fulham Palace'. She offers her remembrances to 'the Bishop of London Mrs.

[Female factory labour.] Printed pamphlet beginning 'To the Right Honourable Richard Assheton Cross, M.P., Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Respectful Memorial of the Undersigned Women, being Factory Workers and Others, Sheweth [...]'

Author: 
[Richard Assheton Cross, M.P.] [women's suffrage; Victorian female factory labour]
Publication details: 
['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] Undated.
£50.00

4pp., 8vo. Drophead title. In poor condition, chipped and with leaves separated, disbound. Two copies on COPAC, and one copy on OCLC WorldCat.

[Female and child factory labour; printed item.] Mr. Mundella's Bill for Limiting the Hours of Labour in Factories. Observations of the Employers upon the Speech of Mr. Mundella, M.P., made In the House of Commons, On Wednesday, the 11th June, 1873.

Author: 
[Association of Factory Occupiers in the four Counties of Lancaster, York, Chester and Derby; Richard Haworth; Joseph Simpson; Henry Whitworth; Anthony John Mundella; John Heywood, Manchester printer]
Publication details: 
['John Heywood, Excelsior Printing Works, Hulme Hall Road, Manchester.'] [Dated on p.27: '96, KING STREET, MANCHESTER, | 24th July, 1873.'
£50.00

32pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound and side-stitched. Mundella's 'Statements' given in a left-hand column, and the 'Replies' of the employers in a right-hand column. Ends, p.27: 'On behalf of the Association of Factory Occupiers in the four Counties of Lancaster, York, Chester and Derby. | RICHARD HAWORTH, Chairman. | JOSEPH SIMPSON, Treasurer. | HENRY WHITWORTH, Secretary. | 96, KING STREET, MANCHESTER, | 24th July, 1873.' Appendix, pp.30-32, of tabulated statistics.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Market for Educated Female Labor. A Paper read at the Meeting of the Association for the Promotion of Social Science, Bradford, 1859.

Author: 
'B. R. P.' [Bessie Rayner Parkes]
Publication details: 
No publication details. [1859.]
£100.00

6pp., 8vo. Paginated 1-6. Drophead title. Incomplete, first three leaves only, breaking off mid-sentence. Aged and worn, disbound. No copy on COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Printed pamphlet.] The Employment of Married Women in Manufacture. A Paper read at the Social Science Congress, held at Norwich, October, 1873. Reprinted, by kind permission, for the Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.

Author: 
Whately Cooke Taylor, Esq. [The Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; the Social Science Congress, Norwich, 1873] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] London: Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Rd., Chelsea. [1873.]
£90.00

['London: Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Rd., Chelsea.'] Prefatory note (p.3) dated 'Preston, | January 1st, 1874.' 12pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Several copies listed on COPAC, none on market currently.

[Female suffrage, printed pamphlet.] Civil Service Appointments for Women. A Paper read at the Meeting of the Social Science Congress, Manchester, 1879.

Author: 
Whately Cooke Taylor [Richard Whately Cooke Taylor (1842-1918)] [The Social Science Congress, Manchester; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The Social Science Congress, Manchester.] Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, London. 1880.
£120.00

12pp., 8vo. In good condition, no wraps, disbound. In manuscript at head of title: 'With the Author's Compts' and, in another hand, 'C. A. Biggs'. No copy traced, either on COPAC or WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Early History of the Property of Married Women, as collected from Roman and Hindoo Law. A Lecture, Delivered at Birmingham, March 25, 1873.

Author: 
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, K.C.S.I., D.C.L., Member of the Council of India and Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford [Married Women's Property Committee; A. Ireland, Manchester]
Publication details: 
[Married Women's Property Committee.] Manchester: A. Ireland and Co., Printers, Pall Mall. [1873.]
£150.00

21pp., 8vo. On title-page: 'This Lecture, the substance of which forms part of an unpublished work, is reprinted for the Married Women's Property Committee, with the permission of the author.' In fair condition, aged and with minor staining to title, no wraps, disbound.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Early History of the Property of Married Women, as collected from Roman and Hindoo Law. A Lecture, Delivered at Birmingham, March 25, 1873.

Author: 
Sir Henry Sumner Maine, K.C.S.I., D.C.L., Member of the Council of India and Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the University of Oxford [Married Women's Property Committee; A. Ireland, Manchester]
Publication details: 
[Married Women's Property Committee.] Manchester: A. Ireland and Co., Printers, Pall Mall. [1873.]
£150.00

21pp., 8vo. On title-page: 'This Lecture, the substance of which forms part of an unpublished work, is reprinted for the Married Women's Property Committee, with the permission of the author.' In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Two addresses written in pencil on reverse of last leaf, and a name in ink.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] An Address to the Ladies of England.

Author: 
Sir David Salomons, Bart. [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Southborough: A. K. Baldwin, Steam Press. [1876.]
£150.00

[1] + 8pp. Dated on p.8: 'Broom Hill, Tunbridge Wells, | January 1st, 1876.' In good condition, lightly-aged, with central vertical fold, front wrap only, disbound. Title on front wrap, which is printed on shiny paper. Printed at head of title: 'With the Author's Compliments.' The author is in favour of the employment of women, as this would 'diminish the number of our unemployed poor, instead of supporting institutions for their relief'. His scheme 'divides itself into three divisions': '1. - To provide better education for girls, and improved means for studying when they are grown up. | 2.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Legal Position of Women in England and Ireland: An Address delivered at the Opening Meeting of the Forty-ninth Session, in the Dining Hall, King's Inns, October 29, 1878, by the Auditor, Seymour Bushe, B.A.

Author: 
Seymour Bushe, B.A. [Law Students' Debating Society, King's Inns, Dublin] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
['Law Students' Debating Society, King's Inns, Dublin.'] Dublin: Printed by Charles Chambers, 36 Dame Street, 1878.
£220.00

Title-page headed: 'Law Students' Debating Society, King's Inns, Dublin.' 32pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. No copy on COPAC, and one copy on OCLC WorldCat, at the National Library of Australia.

[Printed pamphlet.] Speech of the Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., on moving the Second Reading of the Married Women's Property Bill. In the House of Commons, Wednesday, April 14, 1869. Extracted from "Hansard's Parliamentary Debates," Vol. CXCV.

Author: 
Russell Gurney, M.P. [The Married Women's Property Bill, 1869.] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Cornelius Buck, 23, Paternoster Row, E.C. 1869.
£100.00

7pp., 8vo. Inscribed at head of title-page: '<?> an earnest request for a careful consideration of the whole question'. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, at the BL.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of the Right Hon. Robert Lowe, M.P. in the Debate on the Second Reading of the Married Women's Property Bill in the House of Commons, June 10th, 1868.

Author: 
Robert Lowe, M.P. [Married Women's Property Bill, 1868; female suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] [1868.]
£50.00

4pp., 8vo. Bifolium with drophead title. In fair condition, aged and worn, disbound, with chipping and damage at spine. Three copies on COPAC.

[Female suffrage; printed handbill.] The Rev. F. D. Maurice on Female Suffrage. From the "Spectator" of March 5, 1870.

Author: 
Rev. F. D. Maurice [John Frederick Denison Maurice (1805-1872)] [The Spectator, London.] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Without place or printer. [1870.]
£150.00

2pp., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. Dated at end 'Cambridge, March 1. | F. D. MAURICE.' In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Women and Politics. Reprinted from 'Macmillan's Magazine.'

Author: 
Rev. Canon Kingsley [Charles Kingsley] [The London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism; women's rights]
Publication details: 
Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage. London: Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, Farringdon Street and 30 Parliament Street, Westminster. 1869.
£50.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound.

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