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Next single mum, Grace Cadell who adopted girls & boys & left them = shares in her will. Grace was a doctor who cared for sick suffragettes recovering from hunger strike. She once paid a fine in pennies to annoy the bailiffs. I love her. Go Grace & her brilliant principles /2

My favie Scottish suffragette was Irish tho - Mary Maloney dogged Winston Churchill& #39;s 1908 by-election campaign in Dundee. He refused to talk about the suffrage so she said he wouldn& #39;t talk about anything & followed him round ringing a bell. He lost it. Slan, Mary. And thanks. /3

Raised on Arran, suffragette Flora Drummond AKA The General, hired a boat to harangue MPs on the terrace at Westminster. Also slipped into 10 Downing St while another woman distracted the guard. Arrested 9 times, persistent hunger striking left her with health problems. Legend./4

Orkney quine, Folklorist and author of The Scots Kitchen Florence Marian McNeill MBE was an organiser at the National Union of Women& #39;s Suffrage Societies and was not militant but she was such an activist and also a founding member of the Scottish National Party. /5

Artist Ethel Moorhead was a tax resister & the 1st Scottish suffragette to be forcibly fed. She threw an egg at Winston Churchill & was arrested in the grounds of Traquair house holding fire lighting equipment. I heard they& #39;re planning to name a street after her in Dundee. Yay!/6

Eunice Murray was said to be such a great speaker that if you heard her you had to be converted to the cause. She loathed Churchill (it& #39;s a theme) & was arrested for addressing a protest in Downing St. She was the 1st Scottish woman to stand as an MP (tho didn& #39;t win) Some lass./7

Scottish organiserTeresa Billington-Grieg was arrested outside the PM& #39;s house in 1906. Sentenced to a fine or prison she chose prison & was the 1st suffragette incarcerated. An anonymous Daily Mail reader paid the fine to get her out. Latterly, she fell out w/ the Pankhursts. /8

There aren& #39;t monuments to these women which is frustrating tho I raised imaginary statues/bells/plaques to them in Where are the Women. Yes I wrote a book about our fab foremothers. Walk this way

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1 of the things I learned is that our grannies are endlessly amazing. Generations of them. More kickass suffragettes? How about Agnes Brown who walked from Edinburgh to London over 5 weeks in 1912 to deliver a pro-suffrage petition. She& #39;s buried in Dean Cemetery near my flat./10

Or Agnes Dollan who also was a key activist during the Glasgow Rent Strikes. She wrote of her Labour party colleagues & #39;I am convinced that our women are as good as the men and in some cases, better& #39;. Quite right, Agnes. Quite right. /11

Thanks for reading to the end of this thread of just some of my Scottish suffrage sheroes. Please fell free to add more - that& #39;s the joy of threads. We definitely are not short of quines to be proud of. Happy weekend, everybody and here& #39;s to the political struggles to come.. /12

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