The contribution of the Women's Freedom League to the cause of women's suffrage in Scotland.

Pedersen, Sarah

Abstract

We are all familiar with the traditional figure of the suffragette, usually associated with names such as Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel, and the ferocity of suffragette militant actions in the decade before the outbreak of war in 1914. However, in Scotland, as indeed elsewhere in Britain, the campaign for the vote for women was not as clear cut as popular memory suggests. Other organisations, both constitutional and militant, were also involved in the campaign. The aim of this article is to investigate the importance of one of those organisations, the Women’s Freedom League, in the female political sphere in Scotland during the early twentieth century.

Citation

PEDERSEN, S. 2020. The contribution of the Women's Freedom League to the cause of women's suffrage in Scotland. In Pittin-Hedon, M.-O. (ed.) Women and Scotland: literature, culture, politics. Caledonia: regards sur l'Écosse. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté [online], section II, pages 163-174. Available from: https://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/women-and-scotland.html

• Acceptance Date: Jan 31, 2017
• Publication Date: May 11, 2020
• Deposit Date: May 13, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: Mar 26, 2024
• Publisher: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté
• Pages: 163-174
• Series Title: Caledonia: regards sur l'Écosse
• Book Title: Women and Scotland: literature, culture, politics
• ISBN: 9782848676746
• Keywords: Women's suffrage; Great Britain; Scotland; Women's Freedom League
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/911102
• Publisher URL: https://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/collections/annales-litteraires/caledonia-regards-sur-l-ecosse/women-and-scotland.html?___store=anglais