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Contemporary or Near-Contemporary Books and Pamphlets
Note: Books, c1870-c1920, with contents or sections relating to the campaign in Scotland are listed below and are generally accessible via inter-library loans. Pamphlets are attributed to the holding library or institution. Many of the most important contemporary books have been reprinted in recent years, allowing wider access to primary source material, such as autobiographical memoirs. These include, for example, Helen Blackburn's record of women's suffrage from 1902, reprinted in 1970, Constance Lytton’s Prisons & Prisoners of 1914 (Virago 1988) and Marion Reid's A Plea for Woman of 1843, reprinted by Polygon in 1988.
Aberdeen, Ishbel, Countess of. We Twa (Lord and Lady Aberdeen), London, 1925. Ishbel Marjoribanks became the president of both the Scottish and national Women’s Freedom League. She was also a vice president of the NUWSS and the GWSAWS.
Aberdeen. The Suffragette: organ of Aberdeen University Suffrage Association. Rectorial magazine issued in support of election candidate Edward Carson in 1908. (Aberdeen University Library)
A.J.R. The Suffrage Annual and Women’s Who’s Who, London, 1913. A remarkable contemporary account of the movement’s leading figures. Short biographies of around 1000 women are listed - and many men.
Anon. Women and The Franchise by Men of Edinburgh. Pamphlet issued by the Scottish National Anti-Suffrage League, n.d. c1910. (National Library of Scotland)
Anon. Woman's Rights and Duties. Pioneering article on equality of the sexes in the Edinburgh Review, April-July, 1841.
Armour, Margaret (Mrs W.B. Macdougall). Agnes of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 1911. Possibly the earliest novel based on the suffrage campaign.
Balfour, Lady Frances. Dr Elsie Inglis, London. 1918. A near-contemporary tribute to the founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service.
Balfour, Lady Frances. Ne Obliviscaris, London, 1930. Memoirs of the daughter of the 8th Duke of Argyll who became the president of the Central Society of Women’s Suffrage by 1906 and was an early supporter of WSPU activism. She was later on the executive committee of the NUWSS and president of the Scottish Churches League for Women’s Suffrage.
Bax, E. Balfour. The Fraud of Feminism, 1913. Pamphlet. (Copy with University of Strathclyde Archives, National Council of Labour Colleges Collection)
Billington-Greig, Teresa. Emancipation in a Hurry, London, n.d. c1911.
Billington-Greig, Teresa. The Militant Suffrage Movement, London, n.d. c1911.
Billington-Greig, Teresa. Suffrage Tactics Past and Present. Published by the Women’s Freedom League in 1913, it includes a list of all WFL branches and their secretaries.
NOTE: Billington-Greig's Edwardian-era writings have been collected into The Non-Violent Militant: Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig, edited by Carol McPhee and Ann FitzGerald for Routledge, (Women's Source Library), 1987.
Blackburn, Helen. Women’s Suffrage, A Record of the Women’s Suffrage Movement in the British Isles, with Biographical Sketches of Miss Becker. London, 1902. Includes 'Chart of Parliamentary Events (1870-1884)', 'Chart of Parliamentary Events (1885-1901)', and 'Index Chart of Events, With Dates (1867-1899)'.
Cheape, Griselda. Why women should not have the imperial vote. St Andrews (?), 1913. The aristocratic Cheape sounds off about why women should not have the franchise. "Will the woman's vote improve matters?" she asks. She concludes, "A very clever man surpasses a very clever woman. So far we proved that the male intellectual brains will outnumber the women in quantity and quality." (National Library of Scotland)
Dowson, Mrs Aubrey. The Women’s Suffrage Cookery Book, 1909. In red cloth-backed pictorial boards showing on the cover a typical boy with sword and girl in dress, ribbon in hair, holding a pie. A remarkable 77-page volume of menu ideas and household hints from around the country, from some of the day’s leading campaigners, including Mrs Fawcett and Mrs Swanwick. Mrs Betrand Russell offers “a recipe for cooking and preserving a good suffrage speaker.” Another page provides “menus for meals for suffrage workers.” Aberdeen toast is another of the offerings. What is thought to be Scotland's only copy is in the Watson Collection.
Duval, Victor. An Appeal to Men, Edinburgh, 1909. Duval founded the Men's Political Union for Women's Enfranchisement in 1910.
Duval, Victor. Why I went to Prison, Edinburgh, 1910. Includes interesting aspects of the men’s support for the women's campaign. “There are in the MPU twenty men ready to go to prison tomorrow…branches are in the course of being started in Glasgow and Dundee.”
Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage. Report of Committee presented at the annual meeting in the Café Oak Hall, Princes Street, on Saturday 23rd March, 1907. Edinburgh, 1907. The first 26 pages of this useful pamphlet are taken up with tributes to the late president of the society Priscilla Bright McLaren, who had died aged 91. The listed committee of the Edinburgh society includes luminaries such as Elsie Inglis, Louisa Lumsden and Louisa Stevenson. The pamphlet provides details of meetings and speakers, donations and subscriptions, and lists of Scottish federation branches. The Dundee society, for example, includes a 50-strong committee, indicating the vast membership of the constitutionalist society at that time. The books |