Biographical Dictionary of ScottishWomen

Elizabeth L. Ewan · Sue Innes · Sian Reynolds · Rose Pipes

Jun 2007 · Edinburgh University Press

About this ebook

This single-volume dictionary presents the lives ofindividual Scottish women from earliest times to the present. Drawing on newscholarship and a wide network of professional and amateur historians, itthrows light on the experience of women from every class and category inScotland and among the worldwide Scottish diaspora.The BiographicalDictionary of Scottish Women is written for the general reading public andfor students of Scottish history and society. It is scholarly in itsapproach to evidence and engaging in the manner of its presentation. Eachentry makes sense of its subject in narrative terms, telling a story ratherthan simply offering information. The book is as enjoyable to read as it iseasy and valuable to consult. It is a unique and important contribution tothe history of women and Scotland.The publisher acknowledges support fromthe Scottish Arts Council and the Scottish Executive Equalities Unit towardsthe publication of this title.

About the author

Sue Innes was Research Fellow, Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, Glasgow Caledonian University. Following a career in journalism she returned to study, completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1998. She was author of Making it Work: Women, Change and Challenge in the 1990s (Chatto and Windus 1995) and Keeping Gender on the Agenda: Participative democracy and the Scottish Parliament (Engender April 1999). Siân Reynolds is Professor of French at Stirling University. She has a doctorate in history from the University of Paris-VII, and has published monographs on both French and Scottish history, including Britannica's Typesetters: Women Compositors in Edwardian Scotland(Edinburgh University Press, 1989). Other publications include France Between the Wars: Gender and Politics(Routledge, 1996) and (co-edited with William Kidd) Contemporary French Cultural Studies(Arnold, 2000). Rose Pipes is formerly a commissioning editor with Oliver & Boyd educational publishers, Edinburgh, is now a freelance publishing consultant, editor and writer. Her own publications include two books of local history, The Colonies of Stockbridge(David Flatman, 1984) and Stockbridge in Living Memory(David Flatman, 1994).