Within their sphere? Women correspondents to Aberdeen daily newspapers 1900-1914.

Pedersen, Sarah

Abstract

On 13 May 1911 Marian S Farquharson, of Haughton wrote a letter to the Aberdeen Free Press criticising Aberdeenshire council’s proposed restrictions on the speed of motorcars. As a car owner herself, Mrs Farquharson felt that ‘a motor going at 20 miles an hour is as easily controlled as a horse going at a small trot of say 10 miles an hour’.1 While this letter in itself may not seem at all unusual, the letter-writer was. This was the 129th letter Mrs Farquharson had written to the letters column of the Free Press since the beginning of 1900, in addition to 12 other letters to the other daily newspaper in Aberdeen, The Aberdeen Daily Journal. When she died on 20 April 1912, a sigh of relief can be imagined in the newspaper offices across Aberdeen.

Citation

PEDERSEN, S. 2002. Within their sphere? Women correspondents to Aberdeen daily newspapers 1900-1914. Northern Scotland [online], 22(1), pages 159-166. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2002.0010

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 31, 2002
• Online Publication Date: May 31, 2002
• Publication Date: May 31, 2002
• Deposit Date: Mar 26, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 26, 2015
• Journal: Northern Scotland
• Print ISSN: 0306-5278
• Electronic ISSN: 2042-2717
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 22
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 159-166
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/nor.2002.0010
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1177
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