The lives of Scottish women : women and Scottish society, 1800-1980 / William Knox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knox, William, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Scotland--Biography.

Women.

Scotland--Biography.

Scotland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed great changes in women's position in Scotland. This work tells the stories of ten women, providing evidence of the contribution made by women to the shaping of modern Scotland. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Jane Welsh Carlyle: Living with Genius (1); 2 Eliza Wigham: Religion, Radicalism and the Origins of the Women's Movement in Nineteenth-Century Scotland; 3 Madeleine Smith: Sex and the Single Girl in Victorian Scotland; 4 Sophia Jex-Blake: Women and Higher Education in Nineteenth-Century Scotland; 5 Lady Frances Balfour: The Radical Aristocrat; 6 Mary Mitchell Slessor: Serving God and Country; 7 Elsie Maud Inglis: Scotland's Joan of Arc?; 8 Katherine, Duchess of Atholl: The Red Duchess?; 9 Willa Muir: Living with Genius (2)

10 Mary Brooksbank: Work, Poverty and Politics in Twentieth-Century ScotlandAnnotated Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-7226-5

9786610516704

1-280-51670-4

0-7486-2655-7

OCLC:

475989252

Publisher Number:

9780748626557

9780748617883

9780748624096