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contributions to the arts, social science, politics and local life. Expertly written text covering many women who have added to life in and around Stirling, with a section on ’Suffrage Outrages’ and others on individual women linked to the campaign.
King, Lilian. Famous Women of Fife. Windfall Books, 1999. With references to Fife-based suffragists Anna Munro (Dunfermline WSPU) and Jenny McCallum (Dunfermline WFL).
Knox, William. The Lives of Scottish Women. Edinburgh, 2006. Biographies of the lives of ten Scottish women, including the leading suffragists Lady Frances Balfour and Elsie Inglis.
Leggat, Jane. Local Heroines: A Women’s History Gazeteer to England, Scotland and Wales. London, 1988. A gazeteer followed by a biographical index of locations associated with women significant in history.
Leneman, Leah. A Guid Cause, The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Scotland. Aberdeen, 1991 and Edinburgh, 1995 (revised). A much-needed Scotland-wide account of the women’s movement when it appeared in 1991.
Leneman, Leah. A Truly National Movement: the view from outside London. In Purvis, J, and Joannu, M (Eds), The Women's Suffrage Movement: new feminist perspectives. Manchester, 1998.
Leneman, Leah. Dundee and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1907-14, in Whatley, Christopher (Ed), The Remaking of Juteopolis, Dundee Circa 1891-1991. Dundee 1992.
Leneman, Leah. Martyrs in our Midst, Dundee, Perth and The Forcible Feeding of Suffragettes. Dundee, 1993. A short study of the forcible feeding of four women at Perth Prison in 1914. Leneman’s conclusion that “working class women probably formed the bedrock of the movement in Dundee” is worthy of scrutiny.
Leneman, Leah. Into the Foreground, A Century of Scottish Women in Photographs. Edinburgh, 1993. Includes suffrage photographs, though people and locations are unidentified.
Leneman, Leah. The Scottish Suffragettes. Edinburgh, 2000. Part of the Scots Lives series of biographies for the National Museum of Scotland. Chapters cover the Victorian, non-militant and militant movements.
Liddington, Jill. The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel: Selina Cooper 1864-1946. London, 1984. Includes various references to Scotland.
Liddington, Jill. Rebel Girls, Their Fight for the Vote. London, 2007. Excellent rescue of previously-unknown radical women.
Livingstone, Sheila. Women in Scotland 1900-1950. Motherwell, 1994. Slim booklet providing general introduction to women’s contribution to Scottish life. Includes section on women’s suffrage.
McDonald, Ian. Vindication! A Postcard History of the Women’s Movement. London, 1989. The best publication for the analysis of the important medium of postcards, which were used extensively as promotional and propaganda tools by suffragists and their opponents.
McPhee, Carol and FitzGerald, Ann (Eds). The Non-Violent Militant: Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig. London, 1987. The collected works of Billington-Greig's writings.
McKenzie, Midge. Shoulder to Shoulder. London, 1975. A super early study of the movement to accompany the pioneering BBC television programme of the same name.
Marcus, Jane. Suffrage and the Pankhursts. London, 2001. Assembles important documents and letters relating to Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughters during the campaign to win votes. Includes a transcript of the controversial 1908 trial of the suffragette leaders.
Marshall, Rosalind K. Virgins and Viragos: A History of the Women in Scotland from 1080 – 1980. London and Chicago, 1983. Part four, Chapter 13, is The Emancipation of Women.
Mitchell, G, (Ed). The Hard Way Up: the Autobiography of Hannah Mitchell, Suffragette and Rebel. London, 1968. Includes Hannah Mitchell’s memories of her campaigns in Scotland, particularly as WFL organiser in Asquith’s constituency in East Fife in 1908, and her stay with Agnes Husband in Dundee.
Moffat, George. Join Me In Rembering – the Life and Reminiscences of the Author of “Bunty Pulls the Strings.” South Africa, 1955. Autobiography of Glasgow playwright who helped to form branches of the Men’s League for Women’s Suffrage. Also describes Glasgow arrest of Mrs Pankhurst in 1914. His wife Maggie was more prominent as a hard-working member of the Women’s Freedom League and was jailed in London as early as 1907.
Moore, Lindsay. Bajanellas and Semilinas: Aberdeen University and the Education of Women, 1860-1920. Aberdeen University Press, 1991. This women’s history includes a discussion of the activity of students during the suffrage campaign.
Moyes, Helen (Fraser). A Woman in a Man’s World. Sydney, 1971. The WSPU/NUWSS stalwart looks back.
Murray, Eunice. Scottish Women in Bygone Days. Glasgow, 1930. Includes some of her own memoirs. Murray also wrote books on Scottish costume in later life.
Pankhurst, Richard. Sylvia Pankhurst, Artist and Crusader. London, 1979. Provides details of his mother’s visits to Scotland, including her stay in Glasgow. Illustrates two of Sylvia Pankhurst's sketches of mill life in Glasgow.
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