The Lives of Scottish Women : : Women and Scottish Society 1800-1980 /

The Lives of Scottish Women : : Women and Scottish Society 1800-1980 / / William Knox.

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GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748617883);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 partic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Knox, William,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2006
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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
  • Index

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