Winifred Mayo (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Appears to be unread--a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Printed for the combined meeting of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs in Los Angeles, October, 2012. The British actress and suffragette Winifred Mayo (1869-1967) was arrested and imprisoned in 1908 for her part in a deputation to the House of Commons. Her account was originally published in the Idler, a British magazine, in April of 1908, and three months later in the FRA, a magazine printed at the Roycroft, the Arts and Crafts community founded by Elbert Hubbard in East Aurora, New York. Postscript by Romy Wyllie. Octavo: [iv], 16, iii, [iii] p. Full black cloth binding, with a rendering of the "Votes for Women" poster inset on the front panel. A fine copy.…

First edition of Vol. 33 of The Idler, containing the first appearance of Winifred Mayo's Prison Experiences of a Suffragette. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over pebbled boards, illustrated. A supporter of women's suffrage, Winifred Mayo joined the Kensington branch of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1907. Soon afterwards she was sentenced to six weeks' imprisonment for taking part in a demonstration outside the House of Commons. In good condition. The Idler was an illustrated monthly magazine published in Great Britain from 1892 to 1911. It was founded by the author Robert Barr, who brought in the humorist Jerome K. Jerome as co-editor, and its contributors included many of the leading writers and illustrators of the time. Most of The Idler's contributors were popular and prolific writers of the time. Some of them, such as Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, and Ernest Bramah are still read today.…