Mary holtby (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

paperback. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Good. Some fading/scuffs to cover. Light tanning to textblock edges. Previous owner signatures/markings at front & back. Content very good.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.176. Publisher's printed paper wraps, stapled. Paper toned, staples rusted, covers a little marked and worn, some nibbling to top outer corner of the last few pages. A rare survival. Very good. A. A. Milne provides his version of this classic tale with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.…

Cloth. Condizione: Good+. FIRST TRADE EDITION, A SUFFRAGETTE COPY. 8vo. Original sea-green cloth boards, spine lettered in blue. Spine sunned and creased, wear and pushing to spine ends. Edges a little darkened and spotted. Offsetting to feps, PO inscription to ffep in brown ink: "Mary N. Gorrie, 12/4/37," spine cracked at title page. Else, clean. Good+ A pleasing WSPU-related association copy of the first edition of Winifred Holtby's sprawling mistresspiece of provincial life and government in changing times, featuring the ownership inscription of the Scottish suffragette Mary Nicol Gorrie, who campaigned for votes for women in Edinburgh and was Secretary of the Scottish Domestic Servants' Association. Holtby's posthumously published novel, whose epigraphs are taken from Vita Sackville-West's The Land and a quote from Holtby's friend Viscountess Rhondda, won the James Tait Black Memorial prize for fiction in 1936. A near contemporary of Holtby's, Mary Nicol Gorrie (1886-1959) was involved in women's suffrage activity in Edinburgh alongside her sisters Bel/le and Beth. They participated in demonstrations, where Mary spoke publicly, and sold Votes for Women newspapers, as well as joining the census protest of 1911 and the great Suffrage Pageant of 1909, for which she dressed as Scottish heroine and attempted saviour of James I of Scotland, Kate Bar-Lass (Catherine Douglas). Gorrie was appointed Secretary of the Scottish Domestic Servants Association in 1913 (following her sister, Bel/le) and established a retirement home for the membership, Home House, at Duddington, as well as organising a contributory pension scheme. …