Warton jane (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Gebunden. Zustand: New. KlappentextTwo brave political activists in the cause of women s suffrage in BritainTo commemorate the centenary of the passing by the British Parliament of the Representation of the People Act, Leonaur is publishing a series of book.

First Edition. Provenance: SIGNED by W.W. ASHLEY. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Boards dust-toned. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 337 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : portraits ; 19 cm. Notes: Includes list of Heinemann publications.Contents: Dedication -- Introduction -- My conversion -- A deputation to the prime minister -- Police court trial -- Holloway Prison: my first imprisonment -- The hospital -- Some types of prisoners -- "A track to the water's edge" -- From the cells -- Newcastle: police station cell -- Newcastle prison: my second imprisonment -- Jane Warton -- Walton Gaol, Liverpool: my third imprisonment -- The home office -- The conciliation bill -- Holloway Prison revisited: my fourth imprisonment.Subjects: Lytton, Constance Lady 1869-1923. Lytton, Constance Lady 1869-1923. Lytton, Constance Lady 1869-1923. Warton, Jane. Women political prisoners Great Britain ; Biography. Suffragists Great Britain ; Biography.Prisonnie?res politiques Grande-Bretagne ; Biographies. Suffragettes Grande-Bretagne ; Biographies. Suffragists.Women political prisoners.Women Suffrage Great Britain. Women political prisoners England ; Biography. Suffragists England ; Biography.Women political prisoners Great Britain ; Biography.Suffragists Great Britain ; Biography. Suffragettes England Biography. Women political prisoners England Biography.Suffragists England Biography. Prisons England. Great Britain. 1 Kg.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this compelling autobiography by militant suffragette, Constance Lytton, who writes of her experiences being imprisoned for protests. The first edition of this uncommon and fascinating work.In the publisher's original cloth binding.With a portrait frontispiece and additional monochrome plate containing portraits of the author.A captivating account of the author's experiences of imprisonment for suffragist protests. Written by Constance Lytton, who rejected her privileged background to join the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), the most militant group of suffragette activists campaigning for "Votes for Women".She used the name Jane Warton (credited in this work as a separate author), to avoid receiving special treatment during these imprisonments.Lytton details all four of her imprisonments across London, Newcastle and Liverpool, and offers insights to the types of prisoners she met, her cells, trials and meetings with Emmeline Pankhurst and Elsa Gye.With a sixteen page catalogue of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. With fading to the spine and light rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Spine is slightly cocked. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with offsetting and a few spots to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscription to the front free endpaper. Very Good. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

FIRST EDITION, tissue-guarded frontispiece photographic portrait of Lytton, further plate with photograph of the same as Jane Warton, pp. xi, 337, [1], 16 [Publisher's list], crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip sunned with lettering dulled, the W.S.P.U. motif to upper board stamped in green and white, a little rubbed at extremities, with a few marks to lower board, and a faint waterstain to leading edge of both, textblock edges toned with one or two spots, endpapers a little spotted, good. An important work by the suffragette, Lady Constance Georgina Bulwer-Lytton, who assumed an alternate identity as a working-class spinster named Jane Warton in order to highlight the treatment of low-income women at the hands of the authorities. She documents her arrest and incarceration, highlighting the appalling treatment of suffragettes, and the brutality of force-feeding, which was meted out in response to an organised hunger-strike. [With:] A 3pp. carbon typescript draft of the final passages in the book, with many variants to the text. [And:] A typed copy of her 2pp. letter to Herbert Gladstone, Home Secretary, referred to on p. 300 of the text - assuring him that her wearing of a disguise could hardly be in the line of a practical joke, given its consequences. [And:] A typed copy (with a small ms. correction) of the 'Report on Physical Condition of Lady Constance Lytton' made by Dr Marion Hunter at the beginning of February 1910, cited in full in the text, pp. 301-2. [And:] A contemporary postcard portrait of the author.…