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Edwards, Maude Little is known of Edwards, who was forcibly fed at Perth Prison in 1914 after "wilfully and maliciously destroying a portrait of King George V" in the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. The sheriff court record SC 39/66/81 at the National Archives of Scotland is a brief record of her trial in Edinburgh. Papers concerning her sentence, including her request for release on prison paper, are at NAS HH 16/47. Criminal case file HH 16/37 includes newspaper cuttings of her stormy court appearance and medical reports by Dr Ferguson Watson at HM Prison Perth. Despite a letter from Olive Walton, organiser of Dundee WSPU, stating that Edwards suffered from "a dilated heart, weak action, irregular rhythm and mitral murmur," Watson's advice was to continue artificial feeding. The file also includes a photograph of Edwards.
Farmer, Alice Material from a private collection relating to Farmer's suffrage activities, c1912, has been catalogued by Dundee University. The collection, with Farmer's family, includes The Hammerer’s Magazine written and sketched in Winson Green Gaol, Birmingham, by women prisoners after the 1912 window smashing campaign. Said to comprise the entries in a prison poetry competition and to have been given to Farmer as the winner of the competition, this important journal also includes many sketches of prison life and other writing. (Copy in Dundee University Archives, MS 15/275)
Fraser, Helen (1881-1979)A Glasgow artist who became the first Scottish organiser of the WSPU and campaigned widely on its behalf. In 1908 she rebelled against the Pankhursts’ increasingly autocratic rule and violent tactics and joined the NUWSS. From 1908 she was a prominent speaker on behalf of the NUWSS. In 1922 she stood as a Liberal candidate in Govan. Some of her papers are held in Suffrage Fellowship Collection, Museum of London. In 1975 Dr Brian Harrison recorded her memories (The Women’s Library). She published two books, the first of which, Women and War Work (1918) was produced for a lecture tour of the US. The second, A Woman in a Man’s World, was published in Australia in 1971 and contains references to her suffrage activity.
Gawthorpe, Mary (1881-1973) Active member of WSPU who campaigned widely in Scotland throughout 1908. Eleven boxes containing her correspondence, diaries and other records are held by the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Library, New York. Box 6 in this deposit contains material relating to Aberdeen (file 14), Dundee (17), and Glasgow (18) while other Scottish material is held in file 32. Items in these files include letters, postcards and campaign leaflets. Gawthorpe related details of her campaigning days in Uphill to Holloway, published in the USA in 1962.
Gordon, Frances (b1875 Gordon, a WSPU militant, was arrested in Glasgow in 1914 for allegedly trying to set fire to Springhall House, Lanarkshire and subsequently forcibly fed in Perth. Papers relating to her trial, including a list of witnesses, are at JC 15/25 at the National Archives of Scotland. Photographs of the scene are in JC 26/1555. Statements of evidence in the Crown Office precognition leading to the trial are at AD 15/14/76. This includes a statement by the caretaker of Springfield House telling how he found Gordon in the house with paraffin and firelighters. Papers concerning her sentence and prison treatment are in the criminal case file HH 16/46. These include daily reports from Dr Ferguson Watson concerning her forcible feeding after her arrest in Aberdeen in 1912. The file of her co-accused Mary Brown, better known as Emily Wilding Davison, is annotated, "Deceased 4th June, 1913 - Knocked over by King's horse at Derby." Trial papers relating to Gordon for June 1912 are also in JC 26/191/ 4/54 at NAS. See also biographical remarks and anecdotes in Ethel Moorhead’s Incendiaries (1925).
Haig, Florence (1856-1952), Evelyn (1863-1954), and Cicelia (1862-1912) The Haig sisters were Scottish in origin and militant in direction. Papers, prison diaries and the hunger strike medal awarded to Florence are held by the SFC, Museum of London.
Holme, Vera (1881-1969) English-based WSPU activist who lived at Lochearnhead during the votes-for-women campaign and who became Mrs Pankhurst’s chauffeur in Scotland. Her papers (Women’s Library) and a typescript biography (SFC, Museum of London) have survived. Holme campaigned in several northern by-elections and famously once hid inside an organ before emerging to disrupt a political meeting.
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