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Murray, Eunice (1878-1960) Correspondence and news cuttings, including sections on the campaign in Scotland, are held in the Women’s Library, along with an interesting court summons from 1913. Murray was president of the Women’s Freedom League in Scotland in 1913. She was also the first woman to stand for parliamentary election north of the border. (The Women’s Library, GB 106 10/2) The People's Palace collection includes eleven pamphlets written by Murray.
Parker, Frances (Fanny) (1875-1924) Parker, a niece of Lord Kitchener, was a prominent member of the WSPU who became organiser for its Glasgow then Dundee branches in 1912. Details of Parker’s arrest, imprisonment and forcible feeding in 1914 are in NAS (HH 16/41 16/42 and 16/43). Her dramatic account of her treatment at Perth and a photograph of Parker (alias Janet Arthur) as she is led away from Ayr Sheriff Court after being “caught” attempting to blow up Burns Cottage in Alloway, are also in these files. A more colourful account of her Scottish activities is contained in Ethel Moorhead’s autobiographical Incendiaries in This Quarter, 1925. (Watson Collection)
Phillips, Caroline (1870 - 1954) An archive comprising several letters and items of memorabilia is in the Watt Collection at Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museum. Phillips, a journalist on the Aberdeen Daily Journal, was secretary of the Aberdeen branch of the WSPU from 1907-09. See also: Fraser, David, (Ed), The Christian Watt Papers, Edinburgh, 1983.
Robinson, Annot (1874-1925) Personal papers at Manchester Central Library cover the period 1908 to 1960, beginning in the year the Dundee teacher Annot Wilkie moved to Manchester after her marriage to Sam Robinson. The archive comprises mainly letters, but includes several photographs and other ephemera, including handbills, tickets and WSPU circulars. Included are letters to and from Christabel and Adela Pankhurst, Nellie Martel, Helena Swanwick, Annie Kenney, Mary Phillips and Keir Hardie. Relating to Robinson's suffrage activities, there is a Notice of Bail (1908), cuttings from Dundee newspapers, a telegram to her husband announcing a six-week sentence, prison correspondence and a postcard showing Robinson speaking at an outdoor gathering in Clayton West, Hudersfield in 1912. (Manchester Central Library, MISC 718/1-75)
Scott, Arabella (1886-), and Muriel (1888-) An important family collection of papers, correspondence, photographs medals (shown above) and memorabilia relating to Arabella Scott, who endured five weeks of forcible feeding at Perth, and her sister Muriel, who was earlier jailed along with Arabella in Holloway. It comprises a significant collection of WSPU leaflets and pamphlets, postcards, news cuttings, and letters to the Scott sisters from suffrage leaders. It also includes a WSPU hunger strike illuminated address signed by Emmeline Pankhurst, and Hunger Strike, Holloway and Westminster medals. The deposit holder also recorded material for Scott’s autobiography, as yet unpublished. (With family, copies in WC). The National Archives of Scotland holds Arabella Scott’s criminal case file and details of her long stay in Perth Prison, (HH16/44). File HH 16/40 records Muriel Scott's attempts to discover if her sister was being forcibly fed at Perth. Criminal case file HH16/44 is particularly important in dealing with forcible feeding in Scotland. It includes official documents, prison health reports, correspondence and press cuttings relating to Arabella's treatment at Perth in 1914. It has lengthy police statements about her arrest and letters from her mother, sister and friends, such as Ethel Moorhead, concerning her sentence and treatment. Important evidence is present concerning the "cover up" of her treatment, how she was not allowed to see a solicitor, or read prison rules, write to family members, see visitors or even sit up in bed, as "It brings on sickness and interferes with her treatment."
Smith, Elizabeth Chalmers (1862-1944) Dr Smith was caught allegedly attempting to set fire to a Glasgow mansion house in 1913. Papers relating to the lead-up to her trial in 1914 are filed at AD 15/13/113 at the National Archives of Scotland. A brief record of the trial, in which she was charged alongside 'Margaret Morrison' (Ethel Moorhead) is contained in files JC 13/130 and JC 15/124.
Stephen, Agnes (1893-1994) Taped interview, 1989, newspaper cutting, 1989, notes by Dundee Central Library, n.d. c1990 and obituary, 1994. Stephen joined the WFL in Dundee in 1908 after hearing Mrs Pankhurst speak in Broughty Ferry during the ‘Winston Churchill’ by-election. (Watson Collection)
Thompson, Elizabeth (1846 - 1918) One volume typescript of memoirs, dated 1913. Thomson was an Edinburgh teacher, missionary and suffragette. She was imprisoned with Arabella Scott in 1913 following an alleged arson attempt at Kelso. (Glasgow University Archives, UGC 053) |
