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A Scottish WSPU

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The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press

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Abstract

The breakaway Women’s Freedom League attracted some members from the WSPU, but even those who continued to show loyalty to the Pankhursts might feel that the London leadership was too far away to understand local contexts. However, the London leadership was determined to impose strict control on the organisation and would brook no attempts to negotiate WSPU policies to suit local conditions or home-grown leaders. Local by-elections were useful occasions to increase coverage of suffragette demands, but Scottish newspapers were also interested in Scottish suffragettes’ activities in England.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 27 December 1906.

  2. 2.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 29 November 1906.

  3. 3.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 27 December 1906.

  4. 4.

    Moore, L. (1983). The Woman’s Suffrage Campaign in the 1907 Aberdeen by-election.

  5. 5.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 17 January 1907.

  6. 6.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 19 January 1907.

  7. 7.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 1 February 1907.

  8. 8.

    Moore, L. (1982). Feminists and femininity.

  9. 9.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 15 February 1907.

  10. 10.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 12 February 1907.

  11. 11.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 1 February 1907.

  12. 12.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 12 February 1907.

  13. 13.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 11 February 1907.

  14. 14.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 11 February 1907.

  15. 15.

    Moore, L. (1983). The Woman’s Suffrage Campaign in the 1907 Aberdeen by-election.

  16. 16.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 12 February 1907.

  17. 17.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 16 February 1907.

  18. 18.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 15 February 1907.

  19. 19.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 11 February 1907.

  20. 20.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal¸17 January 1907.

  21. 21.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 19 February 1907.

  22. 22.

    Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 18, 18 November 1907.

  23. 23.

    Falkirk Herald, 6 March 1907.

  24. 24.

    Kirkintilloch Herald, 13 March 1907.

  25. 25.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 9 March 1907.

  26. 26.

    Bellshill Speaker, 15 March 1907.

  27. 27.

    Glasgow Herald, 30 November 1906.

  28. 28.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 29 September 1909.

  29. 29.

    Glasgow Herald, 6 March 1907.

  30. 30.

    Glasgow Herald, 9 March 1907.

  31. 31.

    Glasgow Herald, 27 February 1907.

  32. 32.

    Falkirk Herald, 13 March 1907.

  33. 33.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 11 April 1907.

  34. 34.

    Glasgow Herald, 18 February 1907.

  35. 35.

    Glasgow Herald, 27 October 1906.

  36. 36.

    Glasgow Herald, 2 November 1906.

  37. 37.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 25 July 1907.

  38. 38.

    Cowman, K. (2007), p. 151.

  39. 39.

    King, E. (1993). The Hidden History of Glasgow’s Women, p. 109.

  40. 40.

    Dundee Courier, 2 October 1907.

  41. 41.

    The Scotsman, 5 October 1907.

  42. 42.

    The Scotsman, 7 October 1907.

  43. 43.

    Tickner L. (1988). The Spectacle of Women.

  44. 44.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 34, 18 January 1908.

  45. 45.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No.18, November 1907.

  46. 46.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 22 November 1907.

  47. 47.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 21, 28 November 1907.

  48. 48.

    Ibid .

  49. 49.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 22, 6 December 1907.

  50. 50.

    For more on this incident, see Leneman, L. (1995). A Guid Cause, pp. 54–55.

  51. 51.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 23 December 1907.

  52. 52.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 27, 28 December 1907.

  53. 53.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 24 December 1907 and Aberdeen Daily Journal 24 December 1907.

  54. 54.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 31, 11 January 1908.

  55. 55.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 25 January 1908.

  56. 56.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 25 January 1908.

  57. 57.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 27 January 1908.

  58. 58.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 28 January 1908.

  59. 59.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 29 January 1908.

  60. 60.

    At this time another leader of the WSPU, although Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence and her husband Frederick were also to be ousted by the Pankhursts in 1912.

  61. 61.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 8 July 1908.

  62. 62.

    Dundee Courier, 8 July 1908.

  63. 63.

    The Watt Collection, Aberdeen Art Gallery, No. 44, 20 August 1908.

  64. 64.

    Glasgow and West of Scotland Association for Women’s Suffrage Executive Committee Minute Book 1902–1905 891036/1/1, 4 September 1908.

  65. 65.

    For more on Una Dugdale and Victor Duval, see Crawford (1999). The Women’s Suffrage Movement pp. 177 and 181.

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Pedersen, S. (2017). A Scottish WSPU. 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_5

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