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This time next week I'll be chatting to @ScotSuffragette here: https://www.facebook.com/ProtestsandSuffragettes & to get us in the mood a THREAD
of Scots suffragettes. My favies. Here's Inverness lass Marion Wallace Dunlop, an artist who made stencils for quick graffiti & in 1909 the1st hunger striker/1
of Scots suffragettes. My favies. Here's Inverness lass Marion Wallace Dunlop, an artist who made stencils for quick graffiti & in 1909 the1st hunger striker/1
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's 1908 by-election campaign in Dundee. He refused to talk about the suffrage so she said he wouldn'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'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'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'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't win) Some lass./7
Scottish organiserTeresa Billington-Grieg was arrested outside the PM'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'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
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/publications/publication/?publicationid=55960f63-3bd9-48e7-a2c9-aa6200d4f55c#:~:text=The%20Old%20Lady%20of%20Hoy,telling%20their%20often%20unknown%20stories. If we sell a few more copies I get a bonus ... /9
https://www.historicenvironment.scot/archives-and-research/publications/publication/?publicationid=55960f63-3bd9-48e7-a2c9-aa6200d4f55c#:~:text=The%20Old%20Lady%20of%20Hoy,telling%20their%20often%20unknown%20stories. If we sell a few more copies I get a bonus ... /9
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'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 'I am convinced that our women are as good as the men and in some cases, better'. 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's the joy of threads. We definitely are not short of quines to be proud of. Happy weekend, everybody and here's to the political struggles to come.. /12
