Ashby Corbett (5 results)

Broché. Condition: Bon. In-16 broché de 47 pages. Plaquette ornée d'un prtrait de Madame Brunschwicg en frontispice, recueil des discours prononcés en son hommage le 30 Novembre 1946 à la Sorbonne. Cécile Brunsschwicg, épouse du philosophe, fut une femme politique et féministe. Sous-secrétaire d'État à l'Éducation nationale en 1936, elle fut une des trois premières femmes ministres en France.Absent des catalogues de la BnF et du WorldCat. En bon état. Nous diminuerons les frais de port indiqués.…

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 64pp Special issue on 'Problems of Unity and The People's Front' Includes: Sir Stafford Cripps, R P Dutt, W J R Squance, Corbett Ashby.

Journal quotidien à parution irrégulière, numéro 5 du Dimanche 30 Mai 1926, format 595x440mm, 4 pages imprimées, traces de pliures sinon bon exemplaire. A bas la haine et la vengeance par Jeanne Brémontier, Souvenirs. d'actualité par Marguerite Durand, Snobisme par Hellé, Nos Frères inférieurs , Salut de Mrs Corbett Ashby, Le Château de Fontainebleau - Où les Congressistes iront en excursion jeudi prochain par Myrtile Hubert, Programme du " Congrès International pour le Suffrage des Femmes - Grand Amphithéatre de la Sorbonne du 30 Mai au 6 Juin ", etc.etc. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Bound with light blue paper over boards, printed with title in black and decorations in blue. Black lettering on the spine. Binding is strong and tight. Title page dated 1955. 72 pages, illustrated with photographic plates. This copy is signed on the front endpaper by Margery Corbett Ashby (President of the Women's Liberal Federation 1928-29 and International Women's Suffragist Alliance 1923-1946); Hanna Rydh (president of the International Alliance of Women 1946-1952); Ester Graff (President of the International Alliance of Women 1952-1958); and Ezlynn Deraniyagala (the first female barrister in Sri Lanka). Some mild foxing on the plates. Overall quite good condition. Please email with questions or to request photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. With six b&w photographic plates. Sole edition. Oblong 8vo., stapled into the original grey paper wrapper with titles in burgundy. London, Committee Against Malnutrition, n.d. [circa February, 1937]. £1,250.00 Wrappers slightly foxed, with a minor crease on the upper portion. Rare in commerce and in big, accessible institutions with a handful of copies under three different listings with copies in the BL, the National Library of Spain. Apparently no copy in the records of the Radcliffe "Women in Science" Exhibit at The Schlesinger. A Woman Trailblazer in Science featured on stemwomen net. The beautifully composed photographs depict milk ration distribution, Basque child refugees from Irún being fed in Barcelona stadium (most likely Camp des Corts), a Catalan sanatorium receiving child refugees, a scene from a co-operative outlet, and a further group of Irúndar children attending lessons on the turf of the stadium. The pamphlet includes a brief preface by The Committee and a three-page essay on the state of food supply and health of refugees in Spain. Children in Spain was produced by an apolitical relief group, members of which included the veteran suffragist Corbett Ashby. And the famed microbiologist Dame Harriette Chick who was the first female Jenner Fellow at the Lister institute and as the discoverer of Chick's Law. Her name is given to the Chick-Watson Equation as applied in a test for the effectiveness of disinfectants. She is also noted for a monumental discovery in helping to prove that vitamins in cod liver oil and exposure to UV light could prevent and cure childhood rickets. She was an ideal person to be involved in child welfare at a time of great chaos in Spain - added to which in the Great War period she was involved in balancing nutritional deficiencies in wartime diets at home and abroad. 217806.…