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[ Marie Corelli, novelist. ] Autograph signature.

Author: 
Marie Corelli (1855-1924), British novelist
Publication details: 
No place or date.
£23.00

A good, firm signature on the reverse of an 8vo endpaper removed from a book. In good condition, lightly-aged. Reads simply: 'Marie Corelli'.

[ Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Dorothea Hemans ], English poet. ] Unsigned autograph note on 'The Princess Pauline Schwartzenberg'.

Author: 
Mrs. Hemans [ Felicia Dorothea Hemans ] (1793-1835), English poet
Publication details: 
Without place or date.
£45.00

On 10 x 18 cm piece of paper. Aged and worn, laid down on leaf from album. Unsigned. Reads: 'Theh Princess Pauline Schwartzenberg | the story of her fate is beautifully related in "L'Allemagne" Vol. 3. p. 336'. Beneath this in a contemporary hand: 'Holograph [sic] of Mrs. Hemans the Poet'.

[ Christina Foyle of Foyle's Bookshop, London. ] 57 Typed Letters Signed and 20 Autograph Letters Signed to Philip Dosse of 'Books and Bookmen', with letters from her husband Ronald Batty. With other material including correspondence received by her.

Author: 
Christina Foyle (1911-1999), proprietor of London bookshop, Foyle's of Charing Cross Road; her husband Ronald Batty (d.1994) [ Philip Dosse (d.1980) of Hansom Books, publisher of 'Books and Bookmen' ]
Publication details: 
The letters of Foyle and Batty on two letterheads: 'From the Director's Office | W. & G. Foyle Ltd. | Booksellers | 119-125, Charing Cross Road, | London, W.C.2.' and Beeleigh Abbey, Maldon, Essex. Between 1968 and 1980.
£500.00

The collection is in good condition, with light signs of age and wear. Of Foyle's 77 letters, 63 are signed 'Christina Foyle' and 14 'Christina'. Almost all 1p., 4to. Foyle's character shines through, an extraordinary mixture of steely determination, frankness and snobbish hauteur (for a good assessment, see her obituary in The Independent, 10 June 1999). Topics include: literary luncheons for Diana Mosley, Dirk Bogarde ('He is so very appealing. My friend Vivian Ellis thinks he is greater than Shakespeare.

[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.

[Sheena Tennant, niece of Margot Asquith.] Large collection of original autograph sheet music by 'one of the first women composers' (she studied under Nadia Boulanger), together with eight printed piano pieces by her.

Author: 
Sheena Lilian Grant Tennant (1883-1974, later Kendall), daughter of James Tennant (1852-1933) of Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Ayrshire, Scotland, industrialist and cousin of Margot Asquith
Publication details: 
Manuscript material, dating from between 1902 and 1933, mainly from Fairlieburne, Fairlie, Argyllshire, Scotland. Seven of the printed scores published by The Frederick Harris Company, London, 1912 to 1929. The other by Augener Ltd, London, 1908.
£850.00

The collection comprises a large collection of autograph sheet music, together with copies of nine published piano pieces. Accompanying the collection is an autograph note by Sheena Tennant's son Hugh Kendall: 'These books, with accompanying score sheets, represent something rather unusual - the compositional examples of my mother, aspiring as she did to be what she saw herself as - one of the first women composers.

[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.

[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.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] The Injustice of the English Law as it bears on the Relationship of Husband and Wife. An Essay Read in the Law School at Cambridge in November, 1867.

Author: 
Rev. Alfred Dewes, D.D., LL.D., Vicar of Christ Church, Pendlebury [The Contemporary Review, London; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
'Reprinted, by the kind permission of the Proprietors, from "THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW."' ['Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.'] Undated [circa 1867].
£120.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy on COPAC, at the British Library. There was a second edition, published by Virtue & Co., London, in 1874.

[Printed item] The Injustice of the English Law as it bears on the Relationship of Husband and Wife. An Essay Read in the Law School at Cambridge in November, 1867. Reprinted, by the kind permission of the Proprietors, from 'THE CONTEMPORARY REVIEW.'

Author: 
Rev. Alfred Dewes, D.D., LL.D., Vicar of Christ Church, Pendlebury [Married Women's Property Question; The Contemporary Review, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Second Edition, 1874. Frederick Bell & Co., Steam Printers, King's Road, Chelsea.
£120.00

16pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Dated at end to 'MARCH, 1874'. (Only one copy of the first edition traced, at the British Library, and misdated to circa 1868, when in fact also published in 1874.)

[Female suffrage; presentation copy of printed pamphlet.] On the Education of Women. A Paper read by Mrs. William Grey, at the Meeting of the Society of Arts, May 31st, 1871. With an Appendix.

Author: 
Mrs. William Grey [Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey (1816-1906)] [the Society of Arts, London; the education of women; women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: William Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. 1871.
£120.00

64pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Inscribed at head of title-page: 'From the Author'. Four copies on COPAC.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Is the Exercise of the Suffrage Unfeminine? Published by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage.

Author: 
Mrs. William Grey [Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey (1816-1906)] [The London National Society for Women's Suffrage] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[The London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-street Square, London. 1870.
£180.00

12pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. With a few pencil annotations. A total of five copies on COPAC and OCLC WorldCat. No copy on market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Enfranchisement of Women. Reprinted from the 'WESTMINSTER REVIEW' for July, 1851.

Author: 
Mrs. Stuart Mill [Harriet Taylor Mill] [The Westminster Review, London] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. 1868.
£500.00

22pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly aged and spotted, no wraps, disbound. COPAC and WorldCat hard to work out but possibly one copy of this edition in any library (Bishopsgate).

[Female suffrage.] Printed handbill by the London National Society for Women's Suffrage, discussing five questions including 'Why should Women demand the Franchise?' and 'What Public benefits would be the result of giving the Franchise to Women?'

Author: 
Mrs. P. A. Taylor [Clementia Taylor (1810–1908; née Doughty)] and Miss C. A. Biggs [Caroline Ashurst Biggs (1840-1889)], Secretaries, London National Society for Women's Suffrage
Publication details: 
[London National Society for Women's Suffrage.] Undated [circa 1870].
£160.00

2pp., 12mo. Single leaf headed 'LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.' In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound, with loss to fore-edge.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Electoral Disabilities of Women. A Lecture delivered at the New Hall, Tavistock, March 11th, 1871.

Author: 
Milicent Garrett Fawcett [The Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Printed for the Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage. By the Tavistock Printing Company, Limited, Tavistock. 1871.
£350.00

23 + [1]pp., 12mo. In good condition, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy traced on either COPAC or OCLC WorldCat, at the London School of Economics.

[Female suffrage; pamphlet printed by Emily Faithfull.] Experience of Factory Life: Being a Record of Fourteen Years' Work at Mr. Courtauld's Silk Mill at Halstead, in Essex. ['Third Edition, much enlarged, with a Preface by Bessie Rayner Parkes.' ]

Author: 
Mary Merryweather [Bessie Rayner Parkes; Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, London; Samuel Courtauld's silk mill, Halstead, Essex] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
Third edition. London: Printed and Published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, (for the Employment of Women,) Great Coram Street, W.C. 1862.
£250.00

xxi + 79 + [1] + 2pp., 12mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Ends with two pages of 'Works published by Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, 9, Great Coram Street, W.C. | Agent: - John F. Shaw & Son, 48, Paternoster Row, E.C.' No copies of the previous two editions traced. Three copies of this third edition on COPAC. No copy on market currently.

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Are we to have Education for our Middle-Class Girls? Or, The History of Camden Collegiate Schools.

Author: 
Mary Gurney [National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all Classes; Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey; Camden Collegiate Schools] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
London: William Ridgway, 169, Piccadilly, W. Second edition, 1872. ['Series published under the sanction of the National Union for Improving the Education of Women of all Classes. No. II.']
£90.00

24pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Preface by Maria G. Grey, President of the Central Committee. Noi copies on market currently.

[Women's suffrage; printed handbill] Pamphlet headed 'Married Women's Property Committee', containing transcript of letter from Secretary Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme and 'Directions for preparing a Petition to the House of Commons'.

Author: 
Mary C. Wolstenholme, Secretary, Married Women's Property Committee [John Hinde Palmer; female suffrage; Victorian feminism]
Publication details: 
[Married Women's Property Committee.]
£100.00

[2]p., 8vo. Bifolium. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. Wolstenholme's letter, dated '63, FINBOROUGH ROAD, S.W., | February 15th, 1873.', on the recto of the first leaf; and the 'DIRECTIONS' on the recto of the second. The letter begins: 'The "Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill" No. I, introduced by Mr. Hinde Palmer, stands as the first order of the day for Wednesday next, the 19th inst., and will, if it passes the second reading on that day, be put down for committee on Friday, the 21st inst.' No copy traced, either on COPAC or on OCLC WorldCat.

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