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Pentland, Marjorie. A Bonnie Fechter, Life of the Marchioness of Aberdeen. London, 1952. See also: French, Doris. Ishbel and the Empire: a biography of Lady Aberdeen. Toronto, 1988.

 

Pugh, Martin. The March Of The Women: A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women’s Suffrage. London, 2002. An in-depth study of the tactics adopted by the WSPU and other militants.

 

Orr, Lesley. A Unique and Glorious Mission: Women and Presbyterianism in Scotland, 1830-1930. Edinburgh, 1998.

Roberts, Marie and Mizuta, Tamae (Eds), Sources of British Feminism. London, 1993. Sections include 'The Suffragettes: towards emancipation' and 'The Disenfranchised: the fight for the suffrage'.

 

Robertson, Scott. The Story of the Women’s Institute Movement in England, Wales and Scotland. Oxford, 1925.

 

Smith, J. J. Labour in Glasgow 1896-1936: Socialism, Suffrage and Sectarianism. East Linton, 2000. An overview of Labour’s electoral progress in Glasgow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watson, Norman. Dundee’s Suffragettes; Their Remarkable Struggle to Win Votes for Women. Dundee, 1990. The first dedicated account of suffragette activity in Scotland. It reveals how Dundee became a centre of the suffrage struggle thanks, in part, to the arrival of Winston Churchill as its MP, and the presence of Prime Minister Asquith’s constituency across the Tay in north Fife.

 

Watson, Norman. Daughters of Dundee. Dundee, 1997. A biographical account of the lives of nineteen local women, including the suffrage campaigner Lila Clunas, women’s right pioneer Fanny Wright and the city’s first woman MP Florence Horsburgh.

 

Watson, Norman. Emerging from Obscurity: How Dundee Women Made Their Mark. In Dundee–A Voyage of Discovery. Edinburgh, 2004. Chapter on various notable women, including suffragists.

 

Woman’s Claim of Right Group. A Woman’s Claim of Right in Scotland: Women, Representation and Politics. London, 1991.

 

Young, James D. Women and Popular Struggle - A History of Scottish Working-Class Women 1500-1984. Edinburgh, 1985. Includes Scottish and English Women and Protest 1880-1914, and Class Struggles and Women's Emancipation 1914-1927.

 

 

 

 

 

Journal Articles

 

Note: Arranged alphabetically by author. Copies of most in WC.

 

Bearman, C.J. Confronting the Suffragette Mythology. In BBC History Magazine, Vol 8, No 2, February, 2007. A controversial article in which Christopher Bearman likens women militants to modern-day terrorists, and makes the claim that only few women, including Ethel Moorhead, were involved in the worst outrages and that some were paid for their contribution. A counterblaste to the article by June Purvis is featured in the same issue.

 

Brientenbach, Esther. Curiously Rare? Scottish Women of Interest. In Scottish Affairs, No 18, 1997.

 

Breitenbach, Esther. Sisters are Doing it for Themselves: The Women's Movement in Scotland. In Scottish Government Yearbook, Edinburgh, 1990.

 

Byatt, Antonia. 100 Years of Fighting for Women’s Rights…so…Where are all the Celebrations? In Good Housekeeping (GH), November, 2001.