Modern Books and Booklets

(containing suffrage material related to Scotland)

Abrams, Fran. Freedom's Cause: The Lives of the Suffragettes. Profile Books, London, 2003.

Breitenbach, Esther and Gordon, Eleanor. Out of Bounds: Women in Scottish Society, 1800-1945. Edinburgh University Press, 1992. An account of working women in Scotland and their influence on Scottish society. Chapter 6, by Elspeth King, is The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Breitenbach, Esther. Women Workers in Scotland: A Study of Women’s Employment and Trade Unionism. Glasgow, 1982.

Brewster, Lynn M. Suffrage In Stirling: The struggle For Women’s Votes. Stirling, 2002. Booklet charting the campaign in the Stirling area, where local MP Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman was prime minister until 1908. Militant acts featured include the attack on the Wallace Monument by Ethel Moorhead and Edith Hudson.

Dangerfield, George. The Strange Death of Liberal England. London, 1966. Useful and interesting, if a little misguided. Provides one of the first retrospective insights into the women’s movement.

Ewan, Elizabeth, Innes, Sue and Reynolds, Sian (Eds). The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh 2005. Some 800 biographies of Scotland’s foremost women are listed in this major new work. Written for the general public by a range of professional and amateur historians, it is an important contribution to the history of women in Scotland, not least narrating the activities of several suffragists.

Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. New York, 1962. Gawthorpe’s memoirs, written after her move to the United States. Covers her childhood in Leeds and early experiences in the WSPU.

Geddes, B. Evelina: Outward Bound from Inverlochy. London, 1995. Life of the Hon Mrs Evelina Haverfield, the prominent horsewoman member of the WSPU and Scottish campaigner.

Gordon, Eleanor. Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland 1850-1914. Oxford, 1991.

Gordon, Eleanor and Breitenbach, Esther. The World is Ill Divided: Women’s Work in Scotland in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Edinburgh, 1990. A history of women’s waged work in Scotland.

Henderson, Shirley and Mackay, Alison (Eds). Grit and Diamonds, Women in Scotland Making History. Edinburgh, 1990.

Hetherington, S. J. Katharine Atholl, 1874-1960, Against the Tide. Aberdeen University Press, 1989. This biography of Scotland’s first woman MP has an all-too-brief account of her attitude to votes for women. It does, however, reflect on Lady Tullibardine’s, as she was then, mixed feelings as she spoke at anti-suffrage meetings.

Hunterian Museum, Glasgow. Women and books from the sixteenth century to the Suffragettes: an exhibition held in the Hunterian Library, University of Glasgow, 1971. The catalogue of this interesting event lists seven suffrage-related works, six by national figureheads and one by the poet John Masefield, the text of his speech, Woman's Suffrage, at the Queen's Hall, London in 1910.

John, A and Eustance, C. The Men’s Share: Masculinities, male support and women’s suffrage in Britain, 1890-1920. London, 1997. This work on the male input into the women's campaign includes the chapter Citizens, Scotsmen, ‘bairns’: Manly politics and women’s suffrage in the Northern Men’s Federation, 1913-20.

King, Elspeth. The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement. Glasgow, 1978. A booklet to accompany the 'Right to Vote Exhibition' at the People’s Palace Museum, September to October, 1978. Includes sections of women’s work, education, changing attitudes, the WSPU, the Scottish federation of the NUWSS and the WFL.

King, Elspeth. The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women: The Thenew Factor. Edinburgh, 1993. An excellent summary of women’s history in Scotland’s largest city, including chapters devoted to Glasgow's Victorian suffrage movement and the subsequent militant campaign.

King, Elspeth (Ed). Stirling’s Girls: Towards a Women’s History of Stirling. Stirling, 2003. A gazetteer of women’s