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Macmillan, Chrystal. And Shall I Have a Parliamentary Vote? Issued by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in 1911. Macmillan, born in Edinburgh, was a prominent leader of the Edinburgh University Suffrage Society and the NUWSS. This pamphlet instructs women on the requirements for getting on the Parliamentary register.
Macmillan, Chrystal. The Struggle for Political Liberty, London, 1909. Pamphlet text from a lecture given by the Edinburgh campaigner to WSPU members in February 1909. Discusses the Scottish women graduates case. (National Library of Scotland)
Metcalfe, A. E. Woman: A Citizen, pamphlet, 1918. (University of Strathclyde Sutherland Collection)
Moorhead, Ethel. This Quarter, Vol I, No 2, Milan, 1925. This artistic-leaning literary magazine, of which Moorhead shared editorship duties with the poet Ernest Walsh, includes Incendiaries (Work in Progress) a long essay in which Moorhead traces her early life, her conversion to the suffrage cause and her militant activities. (Watson Collection)
Murray, Eunice. Prejudices Old and New, (Scottish Council of WFL), Edinburgh and Glasgow, n.d. c1910. (National Library of Scotland) A further 11 pamphlets by Murray are with the People's Palace Museum.
National Society for Women’s Suffrage. Women’s Suffrage: Public Meeting in Edinburgh in Queen Street Hall, on 17th January, 1870, under the auspices of the Edinburgh Branch of the National Society for Women’s Suffrage, Edinburgh, 1870. (Copies in Glasgow University Library and National Library of Scotland)
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Scottish Federation. Scottish Women's Hospitals (Organisation): the call of our allies and the response of the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service: being record of work accomplished in France and Serbia. Glasgow NUWSS pamphlet, 1915. (Aberdeen University Library)
National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies. Seventy-eight NUWSS pamphlets on the women's campaign, c1909-1914, removed from a bound volume. (Edinburgh University Library P.1287)
Pankhurst, Emmeline. My Own Story, London, 1914. A famous account which was actually written by an American journalist.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette: The History of the Women’s Militant Suffrage Movement, New York, 1911. This publication was sold in America before it was launched in the UK the following year. Sylvia Pankhurst had written it in anticipation of the truce of 1910 leading to the end of the campaign.
Pankhurst, Sylvia. The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideals, London, 1931. Possibly the best of the Pankhurst histories.
Pearce, Rachel, Electors: Do You Approve of Torture?, Edinburgh, n.d. c1914. Discusses forcible feeding of Mary Richardson. Dwells on Lilian Lenton's case, imprisoned for allegedly setting fire to Kew Gardens in 1913, and who collapsed after three days of artificial feeding in Holloway amid claims that food had been poured into her lungs. (National Library of Scotland)
Reid, Marion. A Plea for Women, Edinburgh, 1843. This very early tract on equal rights was written by the daughter of a Glasgow merchant and had considerable impact in the early Victorian period.
Scottish Churches League for Woman Suffrage. Freedom for Service, Edinburgh, 1914. A report on the activities of the league by the executive committee, mostly detailing talks given. (National Library of Scotland)
Scottish National Anti-Suffrage League. Printed programme and two-page advertising handbill for the anti-suffrage demonstration against women's enfranchisement held at St Andrews Halls, Glasgow on November 1, 1912. The handbill provides an interesting list of those attending, a who's who of Scotland's landed gentry. (National Library of Scotland)
Scottish Women Graduates. Report of the Scottish Women’s Graduates Appeal in the House of Lords, November 10th 1908, London, n.d. c1909. (Glasgow University Library)
Stuart Mill, John. The Subjection of Women, London, 1906. The historian Elizabeth Crawford reports that this edition was a very popular item for selling from ‘literature’ tables at suffrage meetings.
Villiers, Brougham (Ed). The Case for Women’s Suffrage, London 1907. Articles by various campaigners. |
