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Author, Title, Summary Price
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

[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?'

2pp., 12mo. Single leaf headed 'LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE.' In fair condition, lightly-aged, disbound, with loss to fore-edge. Text arranged under five sub-headings: 'What do Women Claim?', 'Why should Women demand the Franchise?', 'What effect would the possession and...

£160.00
Milicent Garrett Fawcett [The Bristol & West of England Society for Women's Suffrage] [Victorian feminism]

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

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.

 £350.00
Mary Merryweather [Bessie Rayner Parkes; Emily Faithfull and Co., Victoria Press, London; Samuel Courtauld's silk mill, Halstead, Essex] [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]

[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.' ]

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...

£250.00
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]

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

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.

 £90.00
Mary C. Wolstenholme, Secretary, Married Women's Property Committee [John Hinde Palmer; female suffrage; Victorian feminism]

[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'.

[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)...

£100.00
M. Le Procureur Général Dupin [André Marie Jean Jacques Dupin (1783-1865)] [prostitution in nineteenth-century France]

[Printed item.] Séance du Sénat du 22 Juin 1865. Opinion de M. Le Procurer Général Dupin Sénateur sur Le Luxe Effréné des Femmes a l'Occasion d'une Pétition contre la Prostitution. Rapportée Par M. de Goulhot de Saint-Germain, sénateur.

[1] + 11, 16mo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound, with slight damage to spine. The only copy on COPAC at the British Library. There is a copy in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

 £120.00
Lord Coleridge [John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894), 1st Baron Coleridge] [Married Women's Property Committee; Alexander Ireland, Manchester printer]

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Coleridge in the House of Lords on the Married Women's Property Act (1870) Amendment Bill, June 21st, 1877.

12pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Only one copy on COPAC, at the London School of Economics, and none on OCLC WorldCat.

 £90.00
Josephine E. Butler, Ada Smith, Elizabeth C. Wolstenholme, Dinah Goodall, Emilie A. Venturi [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Legislative Restrictions on the Industry of Women, considered from the Women's Point of View.

18 + [1]pp., 8vo. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, no wraps, disbound. Authors named at end as: 'JOSEPHINE E. BUTLER, Liverpool. | ADA SMITH, (Factory Worker,) Nottingham. | ELIZABETH C. WOLSTENHOLME, Congleton. | DINAH GOODALL, (Factory Worker,) Leeds. | EMILIE A. VENTURI, London.'...

£150.00
John Stuart Mill, M.P. [women's suffrage; Victorian feminism]

[Female suffrage; printed pamphlet.] Speech of John Stuart Mill, M.P. on the Admission of Women to the Electoral Franchise. Spoken in the House of Commons, May 20th, 1867.

18pp., 8vo. In good condition, lightly-aged, no wraps, disbound. Number of copies in libraries.

 £125.00
Jessie Boucherett; Henry Thomas Buckle; Matilda M. Hays; H. R. Droop [women's suffrage; Victorian domestic violence; factory labour; female employment; married women's property]

[Female suffrage.] Collection of ten extracts from Victorian magazines on 'the woman question', the topics including domestic violence, factory labour, female employment, married women's property.

The ten items disbound from volumes from the collections of Robert Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), 1st Marquess of Crewe; the Cavendish Bentinck Library, London; and the Central Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage. London. The first nine items in good overall condition, lightly aged...

£320.00
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