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Mary Richardson
Canadian suffragette
For other people named Mary Richardson, see Mary Richardson (disambiguation).
Mary Richardson | |
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by Special Branchc. 1912 | |
Born | 1882/3 |
Died | (1961-11-07)7 November 1961 Hastings, East Sussex, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Independent wealth |
Known for | Slashing the Rokeby Venus |
Mary Raleigh Richardson (1882/3 – 7 November 1961) was a Canadian suffragette active in the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom, an arsonist, a socialist parliamentary candidate and later head of the women's section of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
Life
She grew up in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. In 1898, she travelled to Paris and Italy. She lived in Bloomsbury, London, England, and witnessed Black Friday in London in 1910.
Richardson published a novel, Matilda and Marcus (1915), and three volumes of poetry, Symbol Songs (1916), Wilderness Love Songs (1917), and Cornish Headlands (1920).
Militant actions
See also: Suffragette bombing a
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This is a summary of the entry I wrote in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I also wrote an article in a suffrage collection about her and in the Women’s History Review. I was particularly interested in the way in which she re-wrote her autobiography at different stages of her life.
Richardson, Mary Raleigh (1882/3-1961), suffragette and political activist, was brought up by her Canadian mother in Belleville, Ontario, and her grandfather. She returned to Britain when she was sixteen, studying art and travelling to Paris and Italy. While living in Bloomsbury she undertook freelance work as a journalist. A witness to the events of ‘Black Friday’ (18 November 1910), in which the WSPU lobbied parliament and were brutally attacked by the police, she joined the WSPU and quickly engaged in militant activities. She described this change in her life as enlisting ‘in a holy crusade’. She was arrested nine times, serving several sentences in Holloway prison for assaulting the police, breaking windows, and arson. She was frequently attacked while campaig
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Mary Richardson Kennedy
American interior designer and philanthropist (1959–2012)
Mary Kathleen Richardson Kennedy (née Richardson; October 4, 1959 – May 16, 2012) was an American interior designer and philanthropist. She was a proponent of green building and was a co-founder of the Food Allergy Initiative, the largest fund for food allergy research in the United States. Her 2010 legal separation from her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was highly publicized. Her suicide in 2012 also received national media attention.
Early life
Mary Kathleen Richardson was born on October 4, 1959, and was raised in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her father, John F. Richardson, was an attorney and a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, who died when she was 12 years old.[1] Richardson's mother was Nancy Higgins, a public school English teacher.[1][2] Richardson had four sisters and two brothers.[2]
She attended The Putney School, where she became friends and roommates with Kerry Kennedy, the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel K
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