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Academic Theses and Dissertations

 

Brewster, Lynn. The Women’s Suffrage Campaign from a Local Perspective: Stirling and its Environs, 1871-1914. Dissertation, University of Glasgow, 2000.

 

Choi, E.S. The religious dimension of the women’s suffrage movement: The role of the Scottish Presbyterian churches, 1867-1918. Dphil, Glasgow University, 1996.

 

Dyer, A. John Stuart Mill and male support for the Victorian Women’s Movement. Dphil, Sussex, 1996

 

Lintell, Helen. Lily Bell. Concerns the activities of Mrs Bream Pearce, who wrote under the pseudonym Lily Bell and who, for a time, was secretary of the Glasgow WSPU branch. MA, Bristol Polytechnic, 1990.

 

Logan, James. The East of Scotland Suffrage/Suffragette Movement 1900-1914, essay, Open University, 1977. (Quoted by Leah Leneman in A Guid Cause.)

 

Sama, Anita, The Times and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1900-1918, MLitt, St Andrews, 1975.

 

Smitley, M.K. 'Women's Mission': The temperance and women's suffrage movements in Scotland, c1870-1914. PhD, Glasgow, 2002. Sets out to "balance" the concentration of militancy in Leneman's Guid Cause.

 

Smyth, J.J. Labour and Socialism in Glasgow 1880-1914: the electoral challenge prior to democracy. PhD, Edinburgh, 1987.

 

Watson, N.D. Gender Representation in Dundee, 1870-1997. PhD, OU, 2000.

 

 

 

 

Newspaper Articles 

 

Note: In Date of Issue Order – copies of most in WC.

 

Daily Record, February 12, 1931.

Sylvia Pankhurst’s Little War. By J. M. Bulloch.

Article is a review of Pankhurst’s book, The Suffragette Movement: An Intimate Account of Persons and Ideas. Includes interesting record of Sylvia Pankhurst’s stay in Glasgow at the height of the votes-for-women campaign.

 

Dundee Courier, August 8, 1938.

Christabel Pankhurst for Rossie Priory. Anon.

Short statement about impending visit of by-then Dame Christabel to Lord Kinnaird’s home in the Carse of Gowrie to attend a public prayer service.

 

Cambeltown Courier, January 22, 1949.

Anon.

Obituary of Flora Drummond.

 

Scotsman, March 31, 1962.

Women Sought Political Power in Fight for Social Justice. By Philip A. Stalker.

Long article, mostly useful for its references to the work of the Women Citizens Association, National Council of Women and Townswomen’s Guild.

 

Elgin Courant, September 4, 1963.

Anon.

Assault on Asquith by Suffragettes in Lossiemouth. Women arrested, but no charges brought by Prime Minister.

 

Scotsman, February 2, 1968.

Anon.

Scots Remember the Suffragettes.

Article on meeting in Edinburgh to celebrate fiftieth anniversary of the vote. Those present included Mrs Joan Cruickshank who ‘went to prison for the cause’ and a Miss Baillie, who ‘took an active part in the suffrage movement, interrupted meetings, sold magazines and so on.’ Interestingly, Miss Baillie is quoted as saying that she knew “the man, at that time a student in Edinburgh, who set fire to Esher station.”

 

Daily Record, April 13, 1972.

“The Girls of Today Are Too Ladylike.” By Leslie Hall.

Interview with Jessie Stephen, then 78, as she looks back to WSPU days in Glasgow. Colourful but useful as few memories of working class involvement are recorded. “Many is the time I put acid into letter boxes to burn up the mail. And I’ve broken a few plate glass windows in Glasgow in my time.”

 

The Times, August 14, 1974.

The woman who aims to put the Fawcett Society back on the feminist map.

By Caroline Moorehead.Article tracing the history of the Fawcett Society and efforts to preserve its suffrage collection.