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Note: Several modern sources provide short biographies of some of the women involved in the votes for women campaign in Scotland. These include Elizabeth Crawford's The Women's Suffrage Movement, Leah Leneman's A Guid Cause, the Dictionary of National Biography and The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. The earliest work to include biographical details is The Suffrage Annual 1913, which includes entries for many Scotswomen. Roger Fulford's pioneering history of the movement, Votes for Women (1955) also provides a biographical index.
Allan, Janie (1827-1907) Letters, speeches, notes and press cuttings relating mainly to Allan and the work of the WSPU in Glasgow, c1900-1914. The archive includes questionnaires sent to eye-witnesses after Emmeline Pankhurst’s arrest in Glasgow in 1914 and letters from Christabel Pankhurst. (National Library of Scotland, ACC 4498.) For the former incident, see also the Scottish Record Office file HH 55/336, which includes Allan’s thinly-veiled threat to disrupt the King’s visit to Scotland in 1914.
Arthur, Jane (1827-1907) News cuttings, pamphlets and obituary relating to Mrs Jane Arthur, a Victorian temperance campaigner and suffrage supporter. (Paisley Library)
Balfour, Frances Lady, (1858-1951) Extensive family papers and correspondence relating to Lady Frances (and her sister Lady Betty), sisters-in-law of Arthur Balfour, prime minister from 1902-1905, are with the National Archives of Scotland (GD 433 series). Frances Balfour was a leading figure in the NUWSS in both Edinburgh and Glasgow. Lady Betty was also sister of Lady Constance Lytton of the WSPU.
Billington-Greig, Teresa (1877-1964) Papers of Billington-Greig, who campaigned throughout Scotland on behalf of the WSPU and established branches in Scottish cities. Married Aberdonian Frederick Greig in 1907, the year that she swapped allegiance to the Women's Freedom League. (The Women’s Library, GB 0106 7/TBG)
Blair, Catherine (1872-1946) Folder of material on Catherine Blair, including copies of her letters to newspapers on the subject of women’s suffrage. (East Lothian Local History Centre, Haddington)
Campbell, Margaret Menzies (c1897-1980) Miscellaneous papers (1912-1980), including reminiscences of the struggle for female equality in dentistry, the Scottish women’s hospitals and correspondence relating to Dr Emily Thomson, pioneering doctor and suffrage supporter. (Dundee University Archives, MS 15/92) Other papers and lecture notes are with the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
Carrie, Isabella (1878-1981) Transcript of an interview with S. Cubbage in 1976. Carrie joined the WSPU in Dundee and provided ‘safe’ accommodation for visiting suffrage leaders. (Dundee City Archives, GD/X53. Transcript and newspaper cuttings in WC with ALS from Sheila Cubbage.)
Lila Clunas (1876-1978) Family notes, Press cuttings and portrait photograph. Clunas joined the WSPU in Dundee in 1906 and after the schism which split the movement in 1907 she transferred her allegiance to the WFL, becoming secretary of the Dundee branch from 1908 to 1912. Clunas crossed swords with Prime Minister Asquith and Winston Churchill and in 1909 became one of the first Scotswomen jailed in Holloway. She recalled at the time being positioned by the movement's leaders in Downing Street to intercept Asquith as "I knew him." She frequently entertained the Pankhursts at her Broughty Ferry home. (Watson Collection)
Anna Rhoda Craig (1899- Papers relating to Craig, under her alias Anna Rhoda Greig or Walker, are filed under HH 16/39 at the National Archives of Scotland. Craig, of the Dumbarton WSPU, also operated under the pseudonym Rhoda Robinson and appears in this guise in NAS prison list (HH 12/22) after being charged twice with fire-raising in 1914. In 1972 an illuminated WSPU hunger strike address for ‘Annie Craig’ was found by developers at a house in Broughty Ferry, Dundee. Unusually, it was signed by both Emmeline Pankhurst and Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence. Its present whereabouts are unknown.
Crawfurd, Helen (1874-1954) Copies of the as-yet unpublished manuscript of Helen Crawfurd are held in the Gallacher Memorial Library at Glasgow Caledonian University and in the Marx Memorial Library, London. The 90,000-word work, written towards the end of Crawfurd's life in the early 1950s, includes details of her suffrage activities and her imprisonment, including major acts of militancy such as her journey south as part of Scotland’s window-smashing cohort in spring 1912. The People’s Palace collection includes some papers relating to Crawfurd. Her WSPU illuminated address is with Argyll & Bute Council archives. Details of her convictions in 1913-14 are in the NAS criminal case file HH 16/45, which includes reports, correspondence, newspaper cuttings and Temporary Discharge documents, mostly relating to her 10-day sentence in Duke Street Prison, Glasgow for breaking two windows of the local army recruitment centre. It also includes a typically-worded letter from Mary Allen of the WSPU demanding to know if Crawfurd was being forcibly fed.
Drummond, Flora (1878-1949)Papers and ephemera relating to Drummond feature in the Suffragette Fellowship Collection at the Museum of London. They include the epaulettes, hat and sash in which she was familiarly portrayed as ‘The General’ of the women’s movement.
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