The Early Years of the Suffragette Campaign – Watching from Scotland

Pedersen, Sarah

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_3

Sarah Pedersen⁶

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The election of a Liberal government in 1905 gave fresh hope to the suffrage campaign. The establishment of the WSPU also brought the issue to prominence in many newspapers as new “tactics” were adopted to raise the profile of the cause. Correspondence to Scottish newspapers was particularly stimulated by suffragette action within Scotland and there was also coverage of the constitutional campaign for the right to vote for women graduates of Scottish universities. The suffragettes were able to use coverage of their militant actions to get their arguments into the newspapers, although the speeches of male politicians were often privileged over the voices of women – voices that were increasingly described as screeching and shrieking as the suffragettes invaded the political public sphere.

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Notes

1.
Parkins, W. (1997). Taking Liberty’s, breaking windows: Fashion, protest and the suffragette public. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 11(3), pp. 37–46.
2.
Cowman, K. (2007). Women of the Right Spirit: Paid Organisers of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) 1904–18. Manchester: Manchester University Press; Crawford (1999). The Women’s Suffrage Movement, p. 55.
3.
Motherwell Times, 20 October 1905.
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Edinburgh Evening News, 21 October 1905.
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Dundee Courier, 31 October 1905.
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Dundee Courier, 28 October 1905.
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Falkirk Herald, 2 December 1905.
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Shetland Times, 9 December 1905.
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Selkirk Herald, 30 November 1905.
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Aberdeen Daily Journal, 30 December 1905.
11.
Aberdeen Daily Journal, 15 January 1906.
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Aberdeen Daily Journal, 16 December 1906.
13.
Glasgow Herald, 16 January 1906.
14.
Glasgow Herald, 17 January 1906.
15.
Crawford, E. (2013). The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey. London: Routledge.
16.
King, E. (1993). The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women. Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, p. 94.
17.
Crawford (2013). The Women’s Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A Regional Survey, p. 240.
18.
Glasgow Herald, 19 January 1906.
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ibid .
20.
Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Minute Book. Mitchell Library SR187 891036/1/2.
21.
Billington, R. (1982). Ideology and feminism: Why the suffragettes were ‘wild women’. Women’s Studies International Forum, 5(6), pp. 663–674.
22.
Rolley, K. (1990). Fashion, femininity and the fight for the vote. Art History 13 (1), pp. 47–71; Tickner, L. (1988). The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign 1907–14. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
23.
Hannam, J. 2002. Suffragette Photographs. Regional Historian 8, 17–19.
24.
Rolley (1990). Fashion, femininity and the fight for the vote.
25.
Edinburgh Evening News, 5 February 1906.
26.
Arbroath Herald, 8 February 1906.
27.
Falkirk Herald, 7 March 1906.
28.
National Library of Scotland Acc 12633/24.
29.
Crawford (1999), p. 364.
30.
Dundee Courier 26 April 1906.
31.
Aberdeen Daily Journal, 27 April 1906.
32.
Aberdeen Journal 27 April 1906.
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Dundee Courier 26 April 1906.
34.
Aberdeen Free Press 27 April 1906.
35.
Edinburgh Evening News 23 June 1906.
36.
Glasgow Herald 1 May 1906.
37.
Glasgow Herald 4 May 1906.
38.
Edinburgh Evening News 21 May 1906.
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Falkirk Herald 23 May 1906.
40.
Edinburgh Evening News 21 May 1906.
41.
Dundee Courier 21 May 1906.
42.
Peterhead Sentinel 26 May 1906.
43.
Falkirk Herald 23 May 1906.
44.
Dundee Courier 21 May 1906.
45.
Kelly (2004). Seeing Through Spectacles.
46.
Chapman (2013). Gender, citizenship and newspapers.
47.
Edinburgh Evening News 16 June 1906.
48.
Dundee Courier 16 June 1906.
49.
Aberdeen Journal 18 June 1906.
50.
Dundee Courier 25 June 1906.
51.
Jamieson, K. H. (1988). Eloquence in an Electronic Age. The Transformation of Political Speechmaking. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 68.
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Dundee Evening Telegraph 21 June 1906.
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Dundee Evening Telegraph 2 July 1906.
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Dundee Courier 23 June 1906.
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Dundee Courier 25 June 1906.
56.
Edinburgh Evening News 5 July 1906.
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Edinburgh Evening News 9 July 1906.
58.
Aberdeen People’s Journal 23 June 1906.
59.
Aberdeen People’s Journal 7 July 1906.
60.
Falkirk Herald 11 July 1906.
61.
Dundee Courier 11 July 1906.
62.
Edinburgh Evening News 12 May 1906.
63.
Edinburgh Evening News 23 June 1906.
64.
Crawford (1999). The Women’s Suffrage Movement, p. 55.

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Pedersen, S. (2017). The Early Years of the Suffragette Campaign – Watching from Scotland. In: The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_3

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