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Hunger-Strikers, Anti-Suffragists and Celebrity

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The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press

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This chapter discusses letters to Scottish newspapers from both suffrage and anti-suffrage correspondents and notes that letters might be sent to local Scottish newspapers from much further afield. It also discusses the confusion that could be caused in the press by the existence of several different suffrage organisations, changes in press coverage of the suffrage question as celebrity and sensation became part of the story, and the coverage of passive resistance such as the avoidance of the 1911 census.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Morley, A. with Stanley, L. (1988). The Life and Death of Emily Wilding Davison. London: The Women’s Press.

  2. 2.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 12 August 1912.

  3. 3.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 14 August 1912.

  4. 4.

    Pedersen, S. (2004). What’s in a name? The revealing use of noms de plume in women’s correspondence to daily newspapers in Edwardian Scotland. Media History, 10(3), pp. 175–185.

  5. 5.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 13 January 1914.

  6. 6.

    Sama, A. (1975). The Times and the Women’s Suffrage Movement 1900–1918. Unpublished MLitt dissertation, St Andrews.

  7. 7.

    Shaffer, R. E. Letters From the People, Los Angeles Times 1881–89, online article at http://www.csupomona.edu/~reshaffer/ accessed September 2000; I am also grateful to Professor Shaffer for discussing this issue in personal correspondence.

  8. 8.

    Dundee Advertiser, 1 January 1908.

  9. 9.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 20 January 1908.

  10. 10.

    Motherwell Times, 14 February 1908.

  11. 11.

    Dundee Advertiser, 11 January 1908.

  12. 12.

    Stirling Observer, 1 July 1913.

  13. 13.

    Suffrage Executive Committee Minute Book 1910–1915 891036/1/3, 31 January 1912.

  14. 14.

    Suffrage Executive Committee Minute Book 1910–1915 891036/1/3, 30 October 1912.

  15. 15.

    Leneman, L (1995). A Guid Cause, p.47.

  16. 16.

    Dundee Advertiser, 16 January 1908.

  17. 17.

    Dundee Advertiser, 18 January 1908; 31 January 1908; 18 February 1908.

  18. 18.

    Arbroath Herald, 1 May 1908.

  19. 19.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 18 December 1908.

  20. 20.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 23 April 1908.

  21. 21.

    I am indebted to Dr Alison McCall for information on the life of Elizabeth Craigmyle.

  22. 22.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 22 April 1908.

  23. 23.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 27 April 1908.

  24. 24.

    Cowman, K. (2007). Women of the Right Spirit, p. 41.

  25. 25.

    King, E. (1978). The Scottish Women’s Suffrage Movement, p. 18.

  26. 26.

    Dundee Courier, 8 May 1908.

  27. 27.

    Dundee Advertiser, 5 May 1908.

  28. 28.

    Dundee Advertiser, 6 May 1908.

  29. 29.

    Dundee Advertiser, 5 May 1908.

  30. 30.

    Dundee Advertiser, 7 May 1908.

  31. 31.

    Dundee Advertiser, 6 May 1908.

  32. 32.

    Dundee Advertiser, 5 May 1908.

  33. 33.

    Dundee Advertiser, 5 May 1908.

  34. 34.

    Dundee Advertiser, 6 May 1908.

  35. 35.

    Dundee Advertiser, 9 May 1908.

  36. 36.

    Dundee Courier, 8 May 1908.

  37. 37.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 7 December 1908.

  38. 38.

    Dundee Courier, 10 January 1910.

  39. 39.

    Southern Reporter, 30 September 1909.

  40. 40.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 16 October 1908.

  41. 41.

    Dundee Courier, 15 September 1909.

  42. 42.

    Dundee Courier, 18 October 1909.

  43. 43.

    ibid .

  44. 44.

    Dundee Advertiser, 18 February 1908.

  45. 45.

    Dundee Courier, 22 July 1909.

  46. 46.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 24 December 1909.

  47. 47.

    Dundee Advertiser, 2 March 1908.

  48. 48.

    Hirshfield, C. (1985). The actresses’ Franchise league and the campaign for women’s suffrage 1908–1914. Theatre Research International, 10(02), pp. 129–153.

  49. 49.

    Dundee Advertiser, 29 January 1908.

  50. 50.

    Dundee Advertiser, 7 May 1908.

  51. 51.

    Dundee Courier, 8 August 1908.

  52. 52.

    Brewster, L. M. (2002). Suffrage in Stirling, p. 36.

  53. 53.

    Dundee Courier, 6 November 1909.

  54. 54.

    Motherwell Times, 11 September 1908.

  55. 55.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 29 January 1909.

  56. 56.

    Harrison, B. (1978). Separate Spheres, the Opposition to Women’s Suffrage in Britain. London: Croom Helm, p. 152.

  57. 57.

    Aberdeen Daily Journal, 5 October 1909.

  58. 58.

    Falkirk Herald, 4 August 1909.

  59. 59.

    Falkirk Herald, 15 December 1909.

  60. 60.

    Falkirk Herald, 6 July 1910.

  61. 61.

    Falkirk Herald, 13 July 1910.

  62. 62.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 1 June 1904.

  63. 63.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 24 May 1906.

  64. 64.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 28 May 1906.

  65. 65.

    Arbroath Herald, 31 May 1912.

  66. 66.

    Arbroath Herald, 31 May 1912.

  67. 67.

    Arbroath Herald, 24 May 1912.

  68. 68.

    Arbroath Herald, 6 October 1911.

  69. 69.

    See for example Ferris, K. O. (2010). The next big thing: local celebrity. Society 47 (5), pp. 392–395; Hills, M. and Williams, R. (2005). ‘It’s all my interpretation’: Reading Spike through the subcultural celebrity of James Marsters. European Journal of Cultural Studies 8(3), pp. 345–365.

  70. 70.

    Zahniser, J. D. and Fry, A. R. (2014). Alice Paul: Claiming Power. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

  71. 71.

    Liddington, J. (2014). Vanishing for the Vote: Suffrage, Citizenship, and the Battle for the Census. Manchester: MUP, p. 6.

  72. 72.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph,17 February 1911.

  73. 73.

    Dundee Courier, 23 February 1911.

  74. 74.

    Dundee Evening Telegraph, 9 March 1911.

  75. 75.

    Edinburgh Evening News, 3 April 1911.

  76. 76.

    Dundee Courier, 3 April 1911.

  77. 77.

    Arbroath Herald, 24 September 1909.

  78. 78.

    Arbroath Herald, 8 October 1909.

  79. 79.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 3 November 1909.

  80. 80.

    Motherwell Times, 24 January 1908.

  81. 81.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 25 March 1909.

  82. 82.

    Mothewell Times, 29 April 1910.

  83. 83.

    Aberdeen Free Press, 29 November 1910.

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Pedersen, S. (2017). Hunger-Strikers, Anti-Suffragists and Celebrity. 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_6

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