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First Phase of the Campaign in Scotland

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The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press

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Abstract

Scottish press coverage of the suffrage question during 1906 seemed to vindicate the tactics of the WSPU. The press was more likely to report the demonstrations, arrests and imprisonments of the suffragettes than it had been to report the ‘at homes’ of constitutional societies. These reports were placed on both general news and women’s pages, indicating a new interest in the subject among male readers. In addition, the arrival of notorious suffragettes from England led to detailed reports of their meetings, allowing arguments in favour of women’s suffrage to be published in both conservative and liberal newspapers.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Dundee Courier 16 July 1906.

  2. 2.

    Edinburgh Evening News 6 August 1906.

  3. 3.

    Edinburgh Evening News 6 August 1906.

  4. 4.

    Edinburgh Evening News 7 August 1906.

  5. 5.

    Hamilton, C. M. (1935). Life Errant. London: Dent.

  6. 6.

    Park, S. S. (2010). Political activism and women’s modernism in The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Women Writers. Ed. Linett, M. T. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 172–186.

  7. 7.

    Cowman, K. (2007a). ‘Doing Something Silly’.

  8. 8.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 6 August 1906.

  9. 9.

    Edinburgh Evening News 8 August 1906.

  10. 10.

    Cowman, K. (2007b). Women of the Right Spirit.

  11. 11.

    Edinburgh Evening News 10 August 1906.

  12. 12.

    Kelly, K. E. (2004). Seeing Through Spectacles.

  13. 13.

    Edinburgh Evening News 7 August 1906.

  14. 14.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph 17 August 1906.

  15. 15.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph 17 August 1906.

  16. 16.

    Cowman, K. (2007b). Women of the Right Spirit.

  17. 17.

    Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage (1907). Report of Committee presented at the annual meeting 23 March 1907. Edinburgh: The Darien Press, p. 19.

  18. 18.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 9 January 1907.

  19. 19.

    Edinburgh Evening News 17 August 1906.

  20. 20.

    Fife Free Press& Kirkcaldy Guardian, 18 August 1906.

  21. 21.

    Fife Free Press & Kirkcaldy Guardian,18 August 1906.

  22. 22.

    Cowman, K. (2007b). Women of the Right Spirit, p. 32.

  23. 23.

    Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Minute Book SR187 891036/1/2, 18 January 1908.

  24. 24.

    Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Minute Book SR187 891036/1/2, 30 October 1912.

  25. 25.

    Edinburgh Evening Press 3 September 1906.

  26. 26.

    Dundee Courier 11 September 1906.

  27. 27.

    Dundee Courier 10 December 1904.

  28. 28.

    Dundee Courier 11 September 1906.

  29. 29.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 15 September 1906.

  30. 30.

    Dundee Courier, 18 September 1906.

  31. 31.

    Aberdeen People’s Journal, 22 September 1906.

  32. 32.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 28 September 1906.

  33. 33.

    Dundee Courier, 29 September 1906.

  34. 34.

    Fife Free Press, 29 September 1906.

  35. 35.

    Dundee Courier, 28 September 1906.

  36. 36.

    Dundee Courier, 10 October 1906.

  37. 37.

    Fife Free Press, 13 October 1906.

  38. 38.

    Dundee Courier, 11 October 1906.

  39. 39.

    Dundee Courier, 10 October 1906.

  40. 40.

    Dundee Courier, 15 October 1906.

  41. 41.

    The Scotsman, 15 October 1906.

  42. 42.

    The Scotsman, 15 October 1906.

  43. 43.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 16 October 1906.

  44. 44.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 16 October 1906.

  45. 45.

    Dundee Courier, 15 October 1906.

  46. 46.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 17 October 1906.

  47. 47.

    Dundee Courier, 24 October 1906.

  48. 48.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 24 October 1906.

  49. 49.

    Dundee Courier, 24 October 1906.

  50. 50.

    Parkins (1997), p. 41.

  51. 51.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 25 October 1906.

  52. 52.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 27 October 1906.

  53. 53.

    Falkirk Herald, 31 October 1906.

  54. 54.

    Dundee Courier, 25 October 1906.

  55. 55.

    Dunfermline Journal, 10 November 1906, quoted in Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage Report of Committee, p. 8.

  56. 56.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 20 June 1906.

  57. 57.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 10 November 1906.

  58. 58.

    The Scotsman, 6 November 1906.

  59. 59.

    Dundee Courier, 21 December 1906.

  60. 60.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 9 January 1907.

  61. 61.

    Dundee Courier, 1 January 1907.

  62. 62.

    Dundee Courier, 28 December 1906.

  63. 63.

    Dundee Courier, 1 January 1907.

  64. 64.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 1 January 1907.

  65. 65.

    Aberdeen People’s Journal, 22 December 1906.

  66. 66.

    Aberdeen People’s Journal, 22 December 1906.

  67. 67.

    Dundee Courier, 9 February 1907.

  68. 68.

    Dundee Courier, 14 February 1907.

  69. 69.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 5 January 1907.

  70. 70.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 30 November 1906.

  71. 71.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 22 November 1906.

  72. 72.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 30 November 1906.

  73. 73.

    Aberdeen People’s Journal, 22 December 1906.

  74. 74.

    Dundee Courier, 28 December 1906.

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Pedersen, S. (2017). First Phase of the Campaign in 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_4

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