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The Scottish Suffragettes and the PressThe Situation in Scotland before the Arrival of the Suffragettes

The Scottish Suffragettes and the Press: The Situation in Scotland before the Arrival of the... [Even before the advent of the WSPU in Scotland, there was a limited amount of press coverage of the campaign for women’s suffrage, particularly in relation to the Edinburgh Society and its outreach work. There was growing appreciation of the need to get the issue of women’s suffrage onto the public agenda by increasing coverage in the press. This mostly appears to have been reliant on individuals contacting the newspapers or particular meetings being covered by the local press. There is also evidence of enthusiasm for the cause from individual women journalists. Some newspapers dismissed the question of women’s suffrage as a “fad” and mocked suffrage campaigners’ demands as “naïve”. However, others looked more sympathetically on the matter and pointed to the good work undertaken by women in local government.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

The Scottish Suffragettes and the PressThe Situation in Scotland before the Arrival of the Suffragettes

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Palgrave Macmillan UK
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978-1-137-53833-8
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21 –43
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10.1057/978-1-137-53834-5_2
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[Even before the advent of the WSPU in Scotland, there was a limited amount of press coverage of the campaign for women’s suffrage, particularly in relation to the Edinburgh Society and its outreach work. There was growing appreciation of the need to get the issue of women’s suffrage onto the public agenda by increasing coverage in the press. This mostly appears to have been reliant on individuals contacting the newspapers or particular meetings being covered by the local press. There is also evidence of enthusiasm for the cause from individual women journalists. Some newspapers dismissed the question of women’s suffrage as a “fad” and mocked suffrage campaigners’ demands as “naïve”. However, others looked more sympathetically on the matter and pointed to the good work undertaken by women in local government.]

Published: Jul 2, 2017

Keywords: Victorian suffrage movement; Edinburgh National Society for Women’s Suffrage

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