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available for borrowing from the Edinburgh branch included Mary Wollstonecraft's The Subjection of Women. (National Library of Scotland)
Edinburgh University Women's Suffrage Society. The Only Way. Edinburgh, 1913. Alas, the organ of the EUWSS student community reveals that it had been three years since its last issue. The leading article is World Progress of Woman Suffrage by Edinburgh-born Chrystal Macmillan. The magazine also includes an interesting reference to the little-known Queen Margaret's College Suffrage Society, which had a "disappointing" 70 members out of 600 women students. (National Library of Scotland)
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. Wanted: a Statesman. Address delivered by Mrs Henry Fawcett LLD at the Athenaeum Hall, Glasgow, November 22, 1909. Pamphlet published for the NUWSS, London, 1909. (Glasgow University Library)
Fawcett, M. G. Women’s Suffrage, London, 1912. In this early suffrage history, in which the pros and cons of the vote are examined, Mrs Frawcett states the number of women in the October 1907 Edinburgh march as 1500. She also provides a useful list of the towns and organisations who have identified with the women’s suffrage movement. Scottish town councils ‘in favour’ include Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee.
Fawcett, Millicent Garrett. What I Remember. London, 1925. Mrs Fawcett was the leader of the Women’s Freedom League and a regular campaigner in Scotland.
Fraser, Helen. Women and War Work, New York, 1918. Like many suffrage activists, Fraser pledged to support the war effort. Part of her remit was a lecture and fund-raising tour of the United States, where she drew attention to the contribution of women to Britain’s war work. She was better known in Scotland, of course, as a prominent and important suffrage organiser, firstly with the WSPU and then the NUWSS. The first edition of this work in the Watson Collection is signed by the author.
Hamilton, Cicely. The Repression of a Disenfranchised Sex. Pamphlet published for the NUWSS, London, 1907. (Glasgow University Library)
Hamilton, Cicely. A Pageant of Great Women, London, 1910. A published account of the pageant held in London the previous year, which ‘starred’ several leading suffrage supporters. This was the first publication by The Suffrage Shop, London.
John, N. A. (Ed). Holloway Jingles, Written in Holloway Prison during March and April, 1912, Glasgow, n.d. c1912. Published by the Glasgow branch of the WSPU. Writing and poetry by the women imprisoned after the organised window breaking in the West End of London. The editor/collator was Nancy John, a member of the Glasgow WSPU in Holloway. In her unpublished memoirs another member of the 1912 Scots contingent Helen Crawfurd recalled that, “Miss John, one of our best speakers, bewailed the fact that she hadn’t even hit the window, and yet she got two months.” (Agnes Macdonald Collection, Edinburgh Central Libraries)
Johnson, Thomas (Tom). The Case for Women’s Suffrage and Objections Answered, Glasgow, 1907. A 16-page pamphlet produced for the Forward newspaper, which Johnston edited, and which expressed considerable sympathy for the women’s cause. (National Library of Scotland)
Kenney, Annie. Memories of a Militant. London, 1924. Memoirs issued in cloth binding in the suffragette colours of purple with green and white bands.
London Society for Women's Suffrage. Speech of…John Stuart Mill at the…meeting in favour of women's suffrage held in…Edinburgh, January 12th, 1871. London, 1871. (National Library of Scotland)
Lowe, Andrew. Should Women Have The Vote?, Glasgow n.d. c1910. Short pamphlet, priced one penny, containing extracts from The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald. Very supportive of militancy which has "vastly helped" the cause. "It has made people think. It has won thousands, tens of thousands, of converts." (National Library of Scotland)
Lytton, Constance (Lady) and Jane Wharton, Spinster. London, 1914. The aristocratic Lady Lytton famously disguised herself and was arrested as Jane Wharton, a seamstress. Her reminiscences describe her violent forcible feeding and eventual release when the authorities discovered her true identity.
McLaren, Eva Shaw. A History of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, London, 1919. Units of the Scottish Women's Hospitals saw service in France and Serbia and witnessed some of the terrible carnage of the First World War.
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