Suffragette Sally.

Colmore (G. [Gertrude])

Suffragette Sally.

Description: FIRST EDITION, foxing to prelims, occasional spotting to text, largely restricted to margins, a few leaves with crease to corners, pp. 319, [1, Author's Note], 16 [Publisher's catalogue], crown 8vo, original (later issue?) red cloth, lettered in gilt to backstrip and red to upper board, dustsoiled overall with a few marks, some wear to joints and extremities, lacking free endpapers, and with a small patch of the final leaf of publisher's catalogue adhering to rear pastedown, fair

Publication Details: Stanley Paul, [1911]

Notes: A significant documentary novel, conveying an intimate knowledge of the activities of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - and scarce, with four holdings on COPAC and no others on the market at time of cataloguing (and no auction records). Colmore was a pseudonym, a vestige of her first marriage, for Gertrude Baillie-Weaver (née Renton), who published a biography of Emily Wilding Davison in the same year; she was active in the WSPU, and her husband Harold supported the cause in print and in speech - the two also campaigned for animal welfare, pacifism during the War, and were membe...more

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Price: £1,500

Subject: Modern First Edition

Published Date: [1911]

Stock Number: 66498

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