PANKHURST

Four pages, 12mo, , bifolium, minor staing on 'spine', text clear and in good condition. Text: I hope you will not think me an abnormally business-like member of my sex when I tell you that I am absolutely incapable of writing an article without knowing beforehand that I am to be properly remunerated providing I do my work satisfactorily! Such is my unlucky constitution; & I find I cannot begin the article on Geo. Eliot for 'Time', till the important question of [?] terms is satisfactorily dealt with. May I beg you therefore to send me the enclosed [not present; contract?] at once?

2pp., 8vo. Handbill with drophead title. In good condition, lightly-aged, disbound. No copy found on either COPAC or OCLC Worldcat.

1p., 12mo. In good condition, on aged and worn paper, folded twice. Written in a late Victorian or Edwardian hand. The 'Address' is an interesting survival: the sort of ribald saloon-bar joke through which male opponents of the movement sought to tame it through ridicule. Similar examples survive, attributed to Lady Astor speaking in parliament, but this version clearly predates these. Here is a transcript of what is a concentrated dose of double-entendre: 'Mrs.

Two pages, 12mo. Good, with minor effects of damp. Text clear and entire. Twenty-five lines. Harraden has found an old acquaintance, Mrs Charles Routledge ('the widow of the son of Colonel Robert Warne Routledge'), in 'very distressing circumstances; she had been very ill from blood poisoning in the leg, had been in hospital, & in the work house'. Mrs Routledge has 'done her very best [...] to fight an adverse fate', working hard 'as a house keeper, maid of all work, servant of lodging house'.