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The lives of Scottish women :

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The lives of Scottish women :

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women and Scottish society, 1800-1980 /

William W.J. Knox.

Edinburgh :

Edinburgh University Press,

©2006.

1 online resource (234 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover -- 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 Scotland -- Annotated Bibliography.

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This book tells the remarkable stories of ten women whose inspirational lives and struggles exemplify the concerns and problems that other women have faced throughout the last two centuries. Each is the subject of a chapter devoted to her particular story and the times in which she lived. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries witnessed great changes in women's position in Scotland, and yet little is known about the achievements of the Scottish women who were the main agents of these changes. In presenting the life stories of ten women, William Knox provides evidence of the huge contribution made by women to the shaping of modern Scotland. At the same time he shows how the life histories of individuals can reveal previously dark corners of historical understanding and allow a more nuanced picture of Scottish society as a whole. Subjects include Jane Welsh Carlyle, brilliantly gifted, but married to the wayward and demanding Thomas, Sophia Jex-Blake, Scotland's first female doctor, and Mary Slessor, the 'White Queen' missionary. Individually their biographies are full of drama and interest. Collectively they say about much the range of women's economic, social and political experience in the past two hundred years.

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.

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Lives of Scottish women.

0748624090

Women-- Scotland, Biography.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Historical.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Great Britain.

HISTORY.

Women.

Scotland, Biography.

Scotland.

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Knox, William,1948-

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