Wikipedia:University of Edinburgh/Events and Workshops/Women in Red/Past worklists
This page is an archive of past University of Edinburgh Women in Red worklists. The most recent worklists are at the top of the page.
Being Human Festival 2021 - suggested nominations.
[edit]Please check, double check and triple check these pages are not already on Wikipedia! (Possible under maiden/married or middle name, different spelling). Draft the text in your sandbox first. Also check Karen's extra suggested names here!
- Jo Phoenix - Criminology, Open University - more info about her work and research to be added please!
- Leith Davis - Scottish studies [1]
- Mirjam de Bruijn - Anthropology [2]
- Soraya de Chadarevian - History of Microbiology [3]
- Jane Desmond - Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies[4]
- Shu-Fang Lai - Dickens [5]
- Jemina Napier - BSL sign language [6]
- Sarah Skerratt - Rural studies [7]
- Julia Campanelli - Film maker [8] "Julia Campanelli is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and actress. Her film 116 has screened in over 50 festivals world-wide, won 27 awards, and premieres on iTunes in 2021. Julia wrote and is producing THE PAISLEY WITCH TRIAL feature and pilot versions have collectively won 11 Best Screenplay awards and is a Francis Ford Coppola American Zoetrope Screenplay Finalist. Julia is Founder|CEO of Shelter Film."
- Wendy Loretto - Aging, University of Edinburgh [9]
- Margaret MacLean - Cultural Heritage, Scotland [10]
- Janet Adam - Potter, Scotland. "Janet Adam was a skilled potter admired for experimenting with glazes. A respected founding and 47-year Scottish Potters Association (SPA) participant".[11]
- Marion Conacher - Missionary, Scptland. "Marion Nelson Conacher MBE, missionary nurseBorn: 2 July, 1933 in Edinburgh. Died: 8 October, 2021 in Edinburgh, aged 88"[12]
- Kathleen HS Hay/Preston - Law, Edinburgh. [13]
- Beldina Odenyo Onassis - scottish Kenyan musician, Glasgow. Needs more content.
- Shanghai Kate Hellenbrand - Tattooist, USA [14]
- Vesna Manojlovic - Community Building, net.art, feminism, hacktivism, Belgrade / Amsterdam.[15]
- Pragna Patel - Women's rights campaigner, Southall Black Sisters. more information could be added to this bio of black feminist campaigner.
- Nora Milnes - Social work, The University of Edinburgh[16][17][18]. "Nora Milnes BSc, was born in London in 1882. After working in London as a caseworker and then Lecturer at the London School of Economics (LSE), she went on to become one of the founding mothers of social work education in the UK. She became first Director of the Edinburgh School of Social Study and Training in 1918, and spearheaded the school's admittance into Edinburgh University proper in 1928. Nora remained at Edinburgh University until 1951, publishing three academic books, a number of journal articles and many newspaper articles. She played a key role in the development of both social work and nursing professional accreditation in Scotland and in the UK more broadly, demonstrated in 1917 by her election to the position of Secretary of the Provisonal Committee of the British Federation of Social Workers (later to become the British Association of Social Workers - BASW), and later in 1922 by her appointment to the first ever General Nursing Council for Scotland by the Scottish Education Department (SED). The University of Edinburgh recognised Nora Milnes' contribution to public service by awarding her an Hononary LLD (Doctor of Laws) in 1958. She died in London in 1972.
October 2021 - Ada Lovelace Day suggestions - Women in STEM
[edit]- Talat Yaqoob
- Sarah Cunningham-Burley[19]
- Jane Norman[20]
- Gillian Raab - statistician. [21][22][23]
- Beata Nowok Statistician. [24][25][26]
- Megan Swann - Magic Circle - only a stub so far
- Heidi Fraser-Krauss - CEO of JISC
- Amina Shah (Librarian)
- Dr Katy Milne[27][28][29]
More ideas on our [Ada Lovelace Day event page]
Accused witches and witch prickers
[edit]- Witches of Scotland
- Alice Tarbuck current witch
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - Edinburgh Napier project.[30]
- Marion Walker - Would you have stood up to a witch-hunt? In 1597, a Glasgow woman called Marion Walker did just that, taking on the most powerful and vengeful men in the land. [31]
- Agnes Hucheon - found “half-guilty” of witchcraft in 1595. Her punishment was public humiliation: She was stripped to the waist, placed in a cart and forced to confess while being driven around town on market day. Then she was locked in branks, an iron restraint for the face with a sharp gag.[32]
- Janet Cornfoot was blamed more than a century later for causing a teenager’s illness. In 1705 a mob of angry men beat her unconscious and left her for dead; the authorities then revived her so they could crush her to death under a door covered with stones.[33]
- Geillis Duncan - Does she merit her own article/ [34]
- Janet Douglas (seer) - page needs improved about the female witchfinder and the Witches of Pollokshaws.[35]
- Beatrix Lang - [36] - one last panic in the village of Pittenweem in the East Neuk of Fife. In 1704, a local blacksmith got on the wrong side of a bad tempered woman called Beatrix Lang. She cursed him and he fell ill with paralysis and fitting. [37]
- Janet Horne - The last witch executed in Scotland was Janet Horne in 1727 in Dornoch. She was senile, and her daughter had deformed feet and hands. Can page be improved? Infobox added.[38]
- Witches of Yorkshire - [39]
- List of people executed for witchcraft - Viola Cantini, Evaline Gill, Märet Jonsdotter (improve page with infobox and citations), Leatherlips (improve & expand page with infobox), Petronilla de Meath (infobox, discoverability), Ruth Osborne (alleged witch) (infobox, improve page) Maren Spliid - Danish accused witch (infobox), Antti Tokoi - Finnish accused witch, Magdalena Duch[40] - Catalan accused witch.
- Witches of Bo'ness
- Margaret Duchill and the Alloa witches [41]
- Christian Caldwell (witch pricker, 1660s)
- Gormla (traditional witch figure, 17th century)
- Alison Pearson (accused witch) (accused witch, executed 1588)
- Lilias Adie (accused witch)
- Janet Wishart (accused witch) in Aberdeen
- Mary Hicks
- Maggie Wall - mystery of the monument and the woman/women accused of witchcraft.
- Bessie Stivenson - Stirling accused witch
- Magdalene Blair - Stirling accused witch
- Bessie Dunlop - add to Witches navbox please. Can this page be improved?
- Margaret Barclay - [42] Irvine accused witch
- Elspeth McKeown - the last accused witch to be executed in Scotland.
Some men could also be added. A few suggestions:
- John Fian (witch, executed 1591)
- Richard Graham (witch, executed 1591)
- John Kincaid (witch pricker) (witch pricker, 1660s)
- Andrew Man (witch, executed 1598)
September 2021 ideas - Biographical Dictionary Of Scottish Women
[edit]- Scottish PEN
- Scottish Feminist Judgments Project
- Janet Anderson (milliner), born 1697, died Edinburgh 3 March 1761. Milliner and maker of grave-clothes. BDSW.
- Margaret Anderson (museum creator), born or baptised Tarland, Aberdeenshire, 14 Dec. 1834, died 2 Oct. 1910. Creator of a roadside museum, Buchan. Daughter of Elspet Grant, and Robert Anderson, crofter, Culsh. BDSW.
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (née Cunningham) (9 February 1909 – 27 May 2002) was a Scottish historian and paleographer. Infobox needed and image if poss.
- Janet Armstrong (shepherd) - born Fairliehope farm, Carlops, 9 May 1903, died West Linton 20 Nov. 1985. Borders shepherd. Daughter of Margaret (Maggie) Carruthers, and Andrew Armstrong, tenant farm manager.BDSW
- Margot Asquith - She was ‘the best-educated ill-educated woman I ever met’, Benjamin Jowett remarked. BDSW - sources needed for Early Life section.
- AUD (aka UNN), the Deep-Minded, born Norway c. 850, died Iceland c. 900. Founding settler of Iceland. Daughter of Yngvild, daughter of Ketil Wether, and Ketil Flat-Nose, Norse ruler of the Hebrides. BDSW.
- Sarah Murray (travel writer) - born probably in Bath 1744, died London 5 Nov. 1811. Topographical writer on Scotland. BDSW - infobox needed.
- Helen Adam born Glasgow 2 Dec. 1909, died Brooklyn, New York City, USA, 19 Sept. 1993. Poet, short story writer and dramatist. Daughter of Isabella Douglas Dunn, and William Adam, United Free Church Minister. BDSW - citations needed.
- Jean Adam - born Cartsdyke, Greenock, 28 April 1704, died Glasgow 3 April 1765. Poet and songwriter. Daughter of Jean Eddie, and John Adam, mariner. BDSW - infobox needed.
- Æbbe of Coldingham - born Bernicia, died Coldingham c. 683. Abbess of Coldingham. Daughter of Aeðilfrith, King of Bernicia (584–616). BDSW - citations needed.
- AEðILTHRYð, (Saint Audrey), born East Anglia, died Ely, Cambridgeshire, 679. Queen of Bernicia, Abbess of Ely. Daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia. BDSW.
- AFFRICA (AUFRIKE) OF GALLOWAY, Queen of Man, fl. 1114–30. Daughter of Elizabeth, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England, and Fergus of Galloway. BDSW
- Sadie Aitken(Sadie), MBE, born Belhaven 15 July 1905, died Edinburgh 5 Jan. 1985. Theatre activist, manager and producer. Daughter of Lily Birss, and William Aitken, master grocer. BDSW
- Helen Alexander - (1654 – March 1729) was a heroine of the Scottish Covenanters. Infobox needed. BDSW
- Ella Logan - (born Georgina Allan; 6 March 1910 – 1 May 1969) was a Scottish-American actress and singer who appeared on Broadway, recorded and had a nightclub career in the United States and internationally. redirect needed for birth name. Infobox also. BDSW.
- Jean Allan n. Mackie, born North Ythsie of Tarves, Aberdeenshire, 23 Feb. 1908, died Aberdeenshire 9 April 1991. Educationist and practical thinker. Daughter of Mary Yull, and Maitland Mackie, farmer. BDSW
- Annie Altschul - Professor Annie Therese Altschul, CBE, BA, MSc, RGN, RMN, RNT, FRCN (18 February 1919 – 24 December 2001) was Britain's first mental health nurse pioneer; a midwife, researcher, educator, author and a patient advocate, emeritus professor of nursing. Citations needed. BDSW
- Elizabeth Baker (actor) nee Clendon. died Jan. or Feb. 1778. Actor and elocution teacher BDSW
- Elizabeth Balfour (midwife) nee Anderson. born on Papa Little, Shetland, 1832, died Houbanster 18 March 1918. Howdie (uncertified midwife), later known as ‘Aald Mam o’ Houbanster’.BDSW
Royal Society of Edinburgh - new Female Fellows for 2021
[edit]- Royal Society of Edinburgh - new Female Fellows for 2021
- Louise Macdonald OBE - instrumental in helping to shape Scotland’s future for young people through her work as CEO at Young Scot, and has recently been appointed as National Director of IoD (Institute of Directors) Scotland. She has also co-chaired the RSE Post Covid-19 Futures Commission’s Public Debate and Participation Working Group and the First Minister’s National Advisory Council on Women and Girls.
- Mhoira Leng - one of Scotland’s first specialists trained in palliative care and is now a lead advisor on palliative care for many international agencies and institutions.
- Judy Wagner
- Jennifer Smith (sociolinguist) - Professor of Sociolinguistics
- Elizabeth Patton - Personal Chair of Chemical Genetics
- Lesley McMillan - Professor of Criminology and Sociology
- Nicola McEwen - Professor of Territorial Politics and Co-Director, Centre on Constitutional Change
- Lesley McAra CBE, Chair of Penology, Assistant Principal Community Relations, Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute
- Professor Alison Hulme - University of Edinburgh, Professor of Synthesis and Chemical Biology
- Dr Olga Kozlova - University of Strathclyde, Director of Innovation and Industry Engagement
- Professor Nina Laurie - University of St Andrews, Professor of Geography and Development
- Professor Linda Lawton - Robert Gordon University, Professor of Environmental Microbiology
- Dame Mariot Leslie - HM Diplomatic Service (retired)
- Professor Kirstie Blair - University of Strathclyde, Chair in English Studies
- Professor Helen Bond - University of Edinburgh, Chair of Christian Origins and Head of the School of Divinity
- Professor Holly Branigan - University of Edinburgh, Professor of Psychology of Language and Cognition and Head of School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
- Professor Tara Brendle - University of Glasgow, Professor and Head of Mathematics
- Professor Malinda Carpenter - University of St Andrews, Professor of Developmental Psychology
- Dr Maria Dornelas - University of St Andrews, Reader, School of Biology
- Professor Heather M. Ferguson - University of Glasgow, Professor of Medical Entomology and Disease Ecology
- Ms Julie Fowlis - Musician, singer, presenter
- Professor Fiona Gilbert - University of Cambridge, Professor of Radiology & Head of Department
- Ms Anne Glover (venture capitalist) HonFREng - Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, Co-Founder and CEO
- Professor Faye Hammill - University of Glasgow, Professor of English Literature
- Professor Susan D. Healy - University of St Andrews, Professor of Biology
- Dr Kirsty Hughes - Scottish Centre on European Relations, Director
International Women's Day - March 2021 - Choose to Challenge
[edit]Women in Sport
[edit]Women in Healthcare and the NHS
[edit]Women of Climate Change and Sustainable Development
[edit]Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women articles
[edit]- Annie Altschul - a British nurse, midwife, researcher and educator. Page needs improved. See resources.
- Georgina Ballantine - Nurse, registrar and salmon fisher. See resources.
- Margaret Bethune - Midwife from Peebles. See resources. -
- Peggy Boyd - Air ambulance nurse. See resources.
- Anne Bryans - Red Cross Administrator and hospital governor. Page needs improved. See resources.
- Mary Buick - Seafarer and nurse from Dundee. See resources.
- Rachel Lumsden - Pioneering nurse. See resources.
- Emily Miller (nurse) - Police officer and nurse. See resources.
- Grace Neill - a nurse from New Zealand who lobbied for passage of laws requiring training and national registration of nurses and midwives. Can page be improved? Needs infobox. See resources.
- Anne Smith (writer) - founder of The Literary Review.
- Margaret Cullen - Novelist. See resources. -
- Helen Gregory (medical missionary) - See resources.
- Honoria Somerville Keer - British surgeon during World War I, where she served as Assistant Medical Officer. Article needs massively expanded. - See resources.
- Emily Thomson (medical practitioner) - among first women in Scotland to gain access to the male-dominated professional medical societies. - See resources.Being worked on by Victoria McIntyre.
- Elizabeth Scot - poet. being worked on by Sabina.
- Agnes Yewande Savage - first West African woman to qualify as a doctor.
- Margery Sampson - bellringer and teacher. Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell.
- Elizabeth Ross (poet) - poet, artist, collector of Gaelic music.
- Mary Rooney - OBE. Trade unionist.Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell.
- Muriel Robertson - protozoologist, bacteriologist.
- Marjorie Ritchie - animal scientist and member of team which produced "Dolly the hseep".
- Elizabeth Malloch - College principal, educator. Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell.
- Barbara Peebles - Prebyterian visionary and prophetess.
- Tessa Ransford - Founding director of the Scottish Poetry Library.
- Jenny Lindsay -poet
- Janet Mann - Photography pioneer.
- Hellen Stirk - executed for blasphemy.
- Gunnie Moberg - Artist, photographer. Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell.
- Catherine Cavanagh - social worker and social science researcher into domestic violence.
- Nicneven - name or soubriquet used by several witches from 1560s onwards.
- Gormla - the leading Gaelic witch figure.
- Pamela So - Multimedia artist, photographer. Daughter of Evelyn Yih, telephonist, and Pak
So, surgeon.
- Stella Sutherland - needs infobox and expanded. Best known for poetry in both English and Shetland dialect.
- Emily Swankie - Communist activist, campaigner.
- Mary Symon - Scots poet.
- Henrietta Tayler - born London 24 March 1869, died London 10 April 1951. Jacobite scholar and First World War nurse.
- Elizabeth Templeton n. McLaren, born Glasgow 8 June 1945, died Pitlochry 11 April 2015. Freelance theologian and educationalist.
- Towser (hunter), born 21 April 1963, died Crieff 20 March 1987. Distillery employee and professional hunter.
- Susan Trail - Montrose 28 April 1720, died Aberdeen 18 May 1791. Printer. Daughter of Christian Allardyce, and Rev. James Trail.
- Margery Urquhart - Agriculture graduate, policewoman, special agent and social work pioneer.
- Lorna Young - Pioneer of Fair Trade movement in the UK.
Historians, research and researchers
[edit]- Julian Goodare - professor of history.
- Louise Yeoman - researcher and broadcaster.
- Survey of Scottish Witchcraft - project to collate all the records on accused witches in Scotland (1563-1736).
Campaigners and Activists from the BDSW
[edit]- Helen Acquroff (1831–87)
- Marcella Althaus-Reid (1952–2009)
- Joyce Baird (1929–2014)
- May Baird (1901–83)
- Ann Fraser Bon (1838–1936)
- Janey Buchan (1926–2012)
- Mona Caird (1854–1932)
- Kay Carmichael (1925–2009)
- Eileen Crofton (1919–2010)
- Jackie Crookstone (1768–97)
- Marian Farquharson (1846–1912)
- Marjorie Farquharson (1953–2016)
- Lady Marion Fraser (1932–2016)
- Edward Garrett
- Evelyn Fraser see Raffles, Frances (1955–94)
- Elizabeth Fraser (1913–2005)
- Maria Gordon (1864–1939)
- Elspet Gray (1929–2013)
- Elizabeth Haldane (1862–1937)
- Margaret Harrison (1918–2015)
- Jane Hay (1864–1914)
- Anne Hepburn (1925–2016)
- Elizabeth Hewat(1895–1968)
- Susan (Sue) Innes (1948–2005)
- Margaret Jarvie(1928–2004)
- Levison, Mary (1923–2011)
- Lindsay, Anna see Irwin, Margaret (1858–1940)
- Linklater, Marjorie (1909–97)
- MacAskill, Ishbel (1941–2011)
- Macdonald, Agnes (1882–1966)
- MacDonald, Margo (1943–2014)
- McGuire, Violet see Swankie, Emily (1915–2008)
- Mckechnie, Sheila Marshall (1948–2004)
- MacLeod, Mary see Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh
(c. 1615–c. 1707)
- Macmillan, Chrystal (1872–1937)
- MacPherson, Mary see Màiri Mhòr nan Òran
(1821–98)
- Mair, Sarah Siddons (1846–1941)
- Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (1821–98)
- Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh (c. 1615–c. 1707)
- Mayo, Isabella (1843–1914)
- Mitchell, Elizabeth (1880–1980)
- Mitchison, Naomi (1897–1999)
- Morrison, Agnes Brysson see Morrison, Agnes
(1903–86)
- Raffles, Frances (Franki) (1955–94)
- Ransford, Tessa (1938–2015)
- Reekie, Stella (1922–82)
- Sievwright, Margaret (1844–1905)
- Skea, Isabella (1845–1914)
- Somerville, Euphemia (1860–1935)
- Steel, Flora (1847–1929)
- Steven, Helen (1942–2016)
- Stopes, Marie (1880–1958)
- Sulter, Maud (1960–2008)
- Swankie, Emily (1915–2008)
- Templeton, Elizabeth (1945–2015)
- Wood, Wendy (1892–1981)
BDSW articles
[edit]- Helen Acquroff
- Marcella Althaus-Reid
- Bletchley Park Women recruits
- Elizabeth Bond - schoolteacher and author
- Janet Boyman - visionary and conspirator accused of witchcraft. Stub article, can it be expanded/improved?
- Anne Bryans - Red Cross administrator and hospital governor. Insufficient inline citations throughout.
- Elizabeth Burns (poet) - Poet and writer. can this be improved?
- Margaret Burns - celebrated beauty.
- Elizabeth Cairns - writer of spiritual memoirs
- Jane Campbell (correspondent) - correspondent and patron of ministers
- Marion Campbell (archaeologist)
- Catherine Cavanagh - social worker and researcher looking into domestic violence
- Margaret Chilton - stained glass artist
- Evelyn Cobbold - muslim convert, deerstalker, traveller
- Katharine Collace - spiritual memoirist, covenanter.
- Eileen Crofton - physician, writer, campaigner.
- Jane Cumming - witness in libel suit made famous in the play, The Children's Hour.
- Lady Jane Douglas - noblewoman
- Pat Douthwaite - painter
- Marjorie Farquharson - political scientist, human rights worker - being worked on by Nohad and Amy
- Kathryn Findlay - architect. Short article so could be improved further.
- Elizabeth Fletcher - friend of Enlightenment literati.
- Katherine Forbes - educational benefactor
- Alison Geissler - glass engraver. Could be structured better and expanded.
- Mary Gilchrist - ostrich feather merchant, chess player. Tiny stub article.
- Elizabeth Girling - Spanish civil war veteran
- Agnes Hamilton (phrenologist) - lecturer and phrenologist
- Helen Hamilton - table tennis player
- Margaret Hamilton (estate manager)
- Jane Hay - philanthropist
- Anne Hepburn - missionary, feminist activist
- Mollie Hunter - writer
- Sue Innes - journalist, artist, feminist
- Margaret Jarvie - swimmer, lecturer in sociology
- Beti Jones - social work organiser
- Christina Kay - model for Miss Jean Brodie. [43]
- Dinah Kaye - jazz singer
- Jenny McCrindle - actor.
- Janet Elizabeth Macgregor - Doctor and cytologist.
- Ailsa McKay - Feminist economist.
- Anne McKay - imprisoned for housing a prominent Jacobite.
- Joan MacKenzie - Traditional Gaelic singer.
- Doris Mackinnon - Zoologist.
- Mary Kerr or Mary Maclagan - Philanthropist.
- Sadie McLellan - Stained glass artist.
- Sarah Macnaughtan - War worker and writer.
- Flora MacNeil or Flora MacInnes - Traditional Gaelic Singer.
- Elizabeth Macquarie - Wife of governor of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land 1810-21 and landscape gardener.
- Elizabeth Malloch - College principal, educator from Edinburgh.
- Janet Mann - Photography pioneer.
- Katherine Matheson aka Kay Matheson - Participant in retrieval of Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey.
- Darcy Maxwell - Methodist leader and philanthropist from Largs.
- Helen Meechie - Director of Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) from Dundee.
- Janet Michie aka Ray Michie - Speech therapist and politician from Balmaha.
- Ella Millar - Edinburgh politician, Scotland's first female city councillor around time of Great War.
- Emily Miller - Police officer and nurse from Govan, the first female officer to be employed by a police force in Scotland.
- Elizabeth Mitchell - Town planner and housing campaigner from Edinburgh.
- Gun Moberg
- Susanna Montgomerie
- Annabella Murray
- Catherine Murray
- Helen Murray - directress of the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms (1708-1777)
- Margaret Myles - author, midwife, midwifery tutor and lecturer.
- Margaret Nairne - Lady Nairne, Jacobite estate manager (1669-1747).Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell
- Isabel Newstead
- Nicnevin - soubriquet used by several witches.
- Linda Norgrove - aid worker.
- Cordelia Oliver
- Christine Orr
- Agnes Owens
- June Paterson-Brown - family planning doctor.
- Fenella Paton - philanthropist and founder of Aberdeen's first birth control clinic.
- Alison Pearson (accused witch) - accused of witchcraft.
- Barbara Peebles - fl.1660-1666 Prebyterian visionary and prophetess.
- Caroline Phillips
- Annie Quibell
- Mary Ralphson
- Tessa Ransford
- Jean Redpath
- Hellen Stirk - executed for blasphemy
- Bessie Wright - Perth healer accused of witchcraft. Entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Witchcraft.
- Women's suffrage in Scotland - new article to be written.
- Helen Wilkie - suffragette. Can more be found about Helen Wilkie so she has her own article?
- Kholoud Al-Faqih - can the page be expanded?
- Jane Pirie and Marianne Woods - entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Teacher and litigant in court case concerning lesbianism. The case inspired the film The Children's Hour.
- Eileen Fuchs - Pilot and travel guide. Entry in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
- Lorna Young - Pioneer of Fair Trade movement from Dumfries. Entry in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
- Helen Acquroff -Pianist, singer, poet, music teacher from Edinburgh. Entry in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
- Williamina Barclay- nurse who helped evacuate St Kilda. Entry in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
- Merbai Ardesir Vakil - Physician. Entry in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. First Asian woman to graduate from a Scottish university.
- Elizabeth Girling - Spanish civil war veteran. Entry in Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women.
- Ella Eronen - Finnish actress.
- Alexandra Gripenberg - Finnish feminist, writer, and member of Parliament.
- Justine Moore - British Paralympic wheelchair fencer
Latest pages
[edit]Pages created and improved form our Scotland's Suffragettes event for Vote 100.
Recently additions
[edit]- Gema Hassen-Bey - Spanish Paralympic wheelchair fencer
- Mary Russell Walker - the brains designing a route for Scots girls to go to Uni.
- St George's School, Edinburgh - their page didn't mention the key role they played - does now
- Leah Leneman - pioneers of women's history in Scotland.
- Helen Wilkie - Scottish suffragette.
- Emily Rosaline Orme - noted campaigner for women's suffrage.
Recently drafted
[edit]- Jane Clapperton - British philosopher, birth control pioneer, social reformer and suffragist.
- Lilias Maitland - one of the first women graduates from a Scottish University at the University of Edinburgh.
- Margaret Nairn - Scottish suffragist, was one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh in 1893.
- Christina Larner - British historian with pioneering studies about European witchcraft and Professor of Sociology at the University of Glasgow.
Looking for ideas
[edit]The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about women writers & artists educated at the University of Edinburgh.
- Click here to see the list.
The following Wikidata list demonstrates what information Wikipedia has about women writers with Scotland as their country of citizenship or nationality.
- Click here to see this list.
Halloween ideas
[edit]- American Gothic (novel) - Article needs expansion. Only thing I can find is this book resource.
- Arthur Mervyn (novel) - needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, here and here.
- The Bad Seed (film) - Article needs additional citations for verification + significant expansion. Resources here, here, here, here, and here.
- The Bad Seed (novel) - Article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, and here.
- Charles Brockden Brown(American novelist) - Insufficient inline citations despite list of references and further reading. Resources here and here.
- Edward Mordake - Article needs improvements (tone/style suitability). Possible resources here, here, here and here.
- The Green Mile - Article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here, here, and here.
- Hangman (Shirley Jackson novel) - Article is currently a stub and needs to be expanded. Resources here, here and here.
- Misty (comics) - Article has multiple issues. Resources here, here, here, and here.
- Psycho (novel) - Article needs additional citations for verification. Possible resources here and here.
- SWF Seeks Same (thriller novel) - Stub; article needs additional citations for verification. Resources here and here.
- Wieland (novel) - lead section does not adequately summarise key points. Minor revisions required.
Worklist
[edit]Scholarship - academics and historians
[edit]- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson - Scottish medieval historian. Can the page be expanded/improved?
- Jude Burkhauser - American art historian who wrote about the Glasgow Girls. Can the page be expanded/improved?
- Marion Campbell (archaeologist).[44][45][46]
- Olive Checkland - historian. [47][48]
- Annie Dunlop - historian.[49][50][51]
- Margaret Gibson (historian).[52][53][54]
- Isabel Frances Grant - historian and folk museum pioneer.
- Cecily Fairfield - Journalist, novelist, feminist, travel writer.
- Christina Larner - Historian.[55][56][57][58]
- Agnes Lewis - scholar.
- Marion Cleland Lochhead - writer, social historian.[59][60]
- Agnes Mackenzie - author and historian.
- Anna Macleod - Professor of brewing. Needs more inline citations.
- Rosalind Mitchison - historian. Can the page be improved/expanded?
- Sylvia Raphael (scholar) and translator.
- Mary Shepherd - philosopher. can the page be expanded/improved further?
- Margaret Swain - historian of Scottish embroidery, furniture and tapestries.[61][62][63]
Heroines, risk takers
[edit]Pages to be written, expanded, improved and infoboxes & images added.
- Helen Alexander - heroine of the Scottish Covenanters. Page needs infobox, more references and structuring.
- Aud the Deep-Minded - founding settler of Iceland.
- Grisell Baillie - first deaconess, Church of Scotland.
- Katherine Douglas aka Kate Barlass - quasi historical heroine during plot aginst the life of James I.
- Elspeth Buchan - Founder of the Buchanites.
- [[Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan] - dubbed a 'faithless conspirator' against the English crown.
- Mary Buick - nurse aboard Nelson's ship, HMS Victory.
- Jenny Cameron aka Jean Cameron - Jacobite.
- Marjory Carrick - noblewoman.
- Agnes Comyn - noblewoman.
- Jackie Crookstone - anti militia campaigner.
- Florence Dixie - writer, traveller.
- Christian Fletcher - protectors of the Scottish regalia.
- Eliza Fraser - castaway.
- Jenny Geddes - legendary rioter.
- Helen Gloag - 'Empress of Morocco'.
- Anne Murray (writer). worked on by EKMason
- Annie Murray (Spanish Civil War nurse) -
Nurse in Spanish Civil war.[64][65][66][67]
- Ethel McDonald - anarchist, envoy to the Spanish civil war, printer.
- Flora MacDonald - Jacobite heroine.
- Barbara MacKay - poet.
- Anne Mackintosh - Jacobite.
- Margaret MacLeod (Jacobite)
- Winifred Maxwell - Jacobite.
- May Moar aka Marjory Moar - awarded medals for bravery by RNLI and RHSoc.[68][69][70]
- Betty Mouat aka Elizabeth Mouat - spinner and handknitter from Shetland.
- Hellen Stirk aka Hellen Stark - executed for blasphemy.[71][72][73]
- Margaret Thomson (doctor) - Doctor and war heroine.
- Helen Walker (historical figure) - supposed model for Jeanie Dean in Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian (1818) - reserved for Julia Bracewell.
- Eglinton Wallace - dramatist, author, exile, reputed spy.
- Mary Young aka Mary Helen Young - nurse and resistance worker.
- Agnes Randolph - defender of Scottish independence.
Writers, performers, actors, musicians
[edit]- Morag Hood, actress - needs additional citations. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Lucy Prebble, writer - page needs updating.
- Val McDermid, writer - can this be updated/improved?
- Mona Caird writer - needs additional citations. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Jane Duncan, writer - This article relies too much on references to primary sources. Needs additional citations. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Nancy Whiskey, singer - short article, can it be improved? (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Molly Weir, actor - needs additional citations. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Nell Ballantyne, actor - only 1 line. In dire need of expanding. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Meg of Abernethy, earliest female harper known in her country. Only 1 line. In dire need of expanding. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Mary McMurtrie, internationally recognised for her botanical art. Needs an infobox. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Madeleine Christie, actor - only 3 short lines. In dire need of expanding. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Jean Milligan, dancer. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[74], Book in main library, [75]
- Signora Violante, Edinburgh rope dancer, tumbler, actor. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[76][77][78]
- Euphemia Davison, Glasgow dancer and supplier of dance troupes. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Elizabeth Baker (actor), Edinburgh. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[79][80][81]
- Charlotte Deans, strolling player. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[82][83][84][85]
- Jessie Fraser, actor, singer and theatre manager. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[86][87][88]
- Marianne Hesketh, actor, theatre manager. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[89][90][91][92][93]
- Mary O'Rourke (singer), 'boy' soprano variety singer. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[94][95][96][97][98]
- Effie Morrison (broadcaster). (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[99][100][101]
- Lennox Milne, actor from Portobello. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[102][103][104]
Articles to Finish Creating
[edit]Accused witches
[edit]- Draft:Beatrix Leslie - a Scottish midwife executed for witchcraft.
- Margaret Bane, a Scottish midwife and alleged witch. Needs expanding. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Margaret Burges, indicted for witchcraft. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[105][106]
- Agnes Finnie, Edinburgh shopkeeper and moneylender who was executed for witchcraft. Needs expanding and added to 'Magic & Witchcraft in the British Isles' navbox. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Janet Horne, the last person to be executed legally for witchcraft in the British Isles. Needs infobox and added to 'Magic & Witchcraft in the British Isles' navbox. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Grissel Jaffray, last woman executed as a witch in Dundee. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[107][108][109][110][111][112][113][114]
- Euphame MacCalzean, one of the North Berwick witches. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[115][116][117][118][119][120][121][122]
- Gormla and Nicneven - names attributed to several accused witches. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women articles).
- Agnes Sampson, a Scottish healer and purported witch. Needs additional references and added to 'Magic & Witchcraft in the British Isles' navbox. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Jane Weir, charged with incest and witchcraft in 1670 and was subsequently executed. Needs infobox, expanding with additional references and added to 'Magic & Witchcraft in the British Isles' navbox. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).
- Bessie Wright, Perthshire healer investigated for witchcraft in 1611. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[123][124][125][126][127][128][129][130]
- Issobell Young, tenant farmer's wife from Dunbar indicted for witchcraft. (Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women article).[131][132][133][134][135][136][137][138]
Women in Architecture
[edit]Women in Medicine
[edit]Women in Chemistry
[edit]Literary Women - Pages in Draft
[edit]- Draft:Mary Clementina Hibbert Ware
- Draft:Irene Simmonds
- Draft:Mrs Gordon
- Lucy Yeend Culler
- Draft:Norma Bright Carson
The Eagle House suffragettes
[edit]Commemorating the suffragettes who each planted a tree in Annie's Arboretum following their release from prison after hunger strikes.
- Emily Blathwayt[143][144][145][146][147][148][149][150][151][152][153][154][155][156][157][158][159][160]
- Millicent Browne[161][162][163][164][165][166]
- Florence Canning
- Winifred Jones (suffragette)
- Kitty Kenney
- Dr. Mary Morris
- Marie Naylor
- Gertrude Stewart - Being worked on by Charlotte Campbell
- Edith Grey Wheelwright
- Lillian Dove Willcox[167][168][169][170][171][172][173][174]
- Lillian Williamson
Suffragettes and women's rights campaigners in the Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
[edit]- Nannie Brown[175][176][177][178][179][180][181]
- Mabel Jones[182][183][184][185][186][187][188][189][190][191]
- Flora Masson
- Frances Murray (suffragist)
- Margaret Mylne
- Emily Rosaline Orme
- Marion Kirkland Reid
- Helen Wilkie - Teacher, women's rights campaigner from Montrose.
- Leah Leneman - writer and historian. Wrote books on women's suffrage and a pioneer of women's history in Scotland.
Suffragette articles to be improved
[edit]- Lily Bell
- Catherine Hogg Blair
- Isabella Bream Pearce
- Sylvia Murray
- Griselda Cheape
- Rachel Cook (womens' education reformer) educational campaigner and editorial collaborator on the Manchester Guardian.[192][193][https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA212&dq=%22rachel+cook%22+suffragist&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiY1-7CvqHZAhU0iaYKHRpzBlMQ6AEIL
- May Pollock Grant
- Jane Taylour - Suffrage and women's movement campaigner. [194][195][196][197][198]
- Arabella Scott - [199][200][201][202][203][204][205][206][207][208][209][210][211][212][213][214]
- Minnie Baldock[215] [216][217][218][219][220][221][222][223][224][225][226][227]
- Wilhelmina Hay Abbott - Infobox and pics required.
- Janie Allan leading Scottish activist in the militant suffragette movement of the early 20th century. Pic required.
- Jane Arthur Scottish feminist and activist. She became the first Scottish woman to stand for and be elected to a school board. Stub article needs expanded, infobox and pic.
- Frances Balfour president of the National Society for Women's Suffrage from 1896 to 1914. Could be expanded.
- Teresa Billington-Greig - Suffragette who helped create the Women's Freedom League. Infobox and headings required.
- Jane Esdon Brailsford ODNB
- Grace Cadell - Infobox required. Headings too.
- Isabella Carrie - ODNB
- Alice Chapin - ODNB Pic required.
- Lila Clunas[228][229][230][231][232][233][234][235][236][237][238]
- Helen Crawfurd - suffragette. Needs expanded and a pic.
- Marion Wallace Dunlop - the first and one of the most well known British suffragettes to go on hunger strike. Tiny pic - can another be sourced?
- Una Duval - ODNB Pic and expanding.
- Maude Edwards
- Lettice Floyd - pic required.
- Helen Fraser (feminist) - Scottish suffragist, feminist, educationalist. Can the article be improved/expanded?
- Marion Gilchrist (doctor) - first female graduate of the University of Glasgow. Can more be added?
- Cicely Hale ODNB Needs expanded, infobox and a pic.
- Margaret Irwin (trade unionist) Short article: needs expanded, pic and infobox.
- Christina Jamieson - British writer and suffragist known for her association with the Shetland Isles. Can this be expanded?
- Alice Stewart Ker - Scottish physician, health educator and suffragette. Needs expanded and a pic.
- Mary Leigh English political activist and suffragette. ODNB
- Janet McCallumODNB
- Agnes Macdonald
- Rosaline Masson - Expanded article and pic required.
- Lillias Mitchell - Suffragette campaigner from Edinburgh.
- Ethel Moorhead - British suffragette and painter. Needs expanded, pic and infobox.
- Edith Mansell Moullin - ODNB
- Anna Munro - active campaigner in the women's suffrage movement from Glasgow. Needs expanded, pic and infobox.
- Eunice Murray - Scottish suffrage campaigner and author. Needs expanded and an infobox.
- Elizabeth Pease Nichol -at centre of abolitionist movement
- Fanny Parker ODNB - Infobox and a pic.
- Mary Phillips (suffragette) - needs expanded.
- Kate Sheppard
- Margaret Sievwright - New Zealand feminist, political activist and community leader. Stub article - needs expanded, infobox and pic.
- Georgiana Solomon (1844-1933)- born in Scotland, active in South Africa and Britain for women's suffrage and related social causes
- Louisa Stevenson - a Scottish campaigner for women's university education, women's suffrage and effective, well-organised nursing. Pic required.
- Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Pic required.
- Isabella Tod - Scottish suffragist, women's rights campaigner and unionist politician in Ireland. Needs expanded, infobox and pic.
Articles to Improve
[edit]- Athena SWAN
- Wilhelmina Hay Abbott - Scottish suffragist, editor, and feminist lecturer.
- Helen Adam - Scottish poet, collagist and photographer who was part of a literary movement contemporaneous to the Beat Generation that occurred in San Francisco during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Jean Adam- Scottish poet from the labouring classes. [239]
- Jennie Adamson - Labour Party politician. [240]
- Ruth Adler - Human rights and child welfare campaigner.
- Æbbe of Coldingham - founded monasteries at Ebchester and St Abb's Head near Coldingham in Scotland.
- Affreca de Courcy - late 12th-/early 13th century noblewoman. She was the daughter of Godred Olafsson, King of the Isles, a member of the Crovan dynasty. In the late 12th century she married John de Courcy.
- Charlotte Ainslie - Headmistress and educationist. Widely regarded as the Scottish expert on the secondary education of girls.[241]
- Margaret Aitken (the great witch of Balwearie).
- Aithbhreac Inghean Coirceadal - medieval Scottish poet.
- Helen Alexander - Memoir writer.
- Annie Altschul - Nurse and academic.
- Ella Logan aka Georgina Allan. Singer and entertainer.
- Marjorie Anderson - radio broadcaster [242].
- Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson - Scottish historian and paleographer.
- Mahala Andrews - Vertebrate palaeontologist.
- Jean Armour - Wife of Robert Burns (poet).
- Jane Arthur - Scottish feminist and activist.
- Minna Cowan - Scottish political activist. [243]
- Helen Crawfurd - Scottish suffragette, Rent Strike organiser, Communist activist, and politician.[244]
- Amelia Louisa Freund - campaigner for women's rights and food reformer. [245]
- Ethel Froud - feminist and trade unionist.[246][247][248][249]
- Dorothy Geddes - Article[250]World-Changing achievement:[251]Herald Obituary: [252]
- Mira Hamermesh - painter and documentary film-maker.[253][254][255]
- Bridget Hill - historian and feminist.[256][257].
- Mary Elizabeth Phillips (suffragette) - suffragette and feminist.[258][259][260][261][262]
- Agnes Syme Macdonald - suffragette and campaigner for women's citizenship. [263]
- Ethel Moir - a nursing orderly who served with the Scottish Women's Hospitals for Foreign Service on the Eastern Front during World War 1.
- Kay Carmichael - [264]Guardian Obituary:[265]Herald Obituary:[266]Scotsman Obituary:[267]
- Emilia Vosnesenskaya linguist - Scotsman obituary
- Kathleen Molyneux Mander - documentary film-maker. [268]
- Sarah Jane Baines - suffragette and social reformer. [269][270][271]
- Mona Wilson (author) - civil servant and author.[272][273]
- Helen Alexander Archdale - feminist and journalist.[274][275][276][277]
- Maggie Keswick Jencks - writer, gardener and designer.[278]https://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/feb/20/maggie-keswick-jencks-centres-cancer-design]
- Mary Susan McIntosh - sociologist, feminist, and campaigner for gay rights.[279][280][281]
- Catherine Isabella Barmby - utopian socialist and writer on women's emancipation.[282]
- Ketaki Kushari Dyson - Indian-born bilingual writer of the Diaspora and scholar of Calcutta University and Oxford University.[283][284]
- Louisa Lumsden - promoter of women's education, headmistress, and suffragist.[285]
Women Writers
[edit]- Angela Carter - [286] English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.
- Kate Austin - American journalist and advocate of feminist and anarchist causes.
- Morag Joss - Scottish writer.
- Jean Rhys - best known for her novel Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), written as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
- Emily Arnold McCully - American writer and illustrator who is best known for children's books.
- A. L. Barker - English novelist and short story writer.
- Maitreyi Devi - Bengali-born Indian poet and novelist.
- Ada Patterson - American print journalist.
- Agneta Pleijel - Swedish novelist.
- Jessie Kesson - Scottish novelist.
- Laura Hird - Scottish novelist and short story writer.
- Margaret Elphinstone - Scottish novelist.
- Agnes Owens - Scottish author.
- Margaret Ryan - Scottish children's writer.
- Nicola Morgan - Scottish author.
- Meg Bateman - Scottish academic, poet and short story writer.
- Alex Gray (author) - Scottish crime writer.
- Anne Donovan (author) - Scottish author from Glasgow.
- Josephine Tey - Scottish author best known for her mystery novels.
- Willa Muir - Scottish novelist, essayist and translator.
- Caro Ramsay - - Scottish writer of crime fiction.
- Marion Kirkland Reid - Scottish feminist writer.
- Rhoda Bulter - Shetland author.
- Theresa Breslin - Scottish author.
- Zoë Strachan - Scottish novelist, journalist and university tutor.
- Eleanor Thom - British writer.
- Kerry Hudson - British writer.
- Jenni Fagan - Scottish novelist.
- Alice Thompson - Edinburgh novelist.
- Ester Sowernam - author.[287]
- Catherine Talbot - English author.[288]
- Elizabeth Fallaize - British academic who was Pro-Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford and a French studies scholar. [289]
- Sheila McKechnie - Scottish trade unionist, housing campaigner and consumer activist.[290]
- Rozsika Parker - British psychotherapist, art historian and writer and a feminist.[291]
- Frances Morrell - British Labour politician who led the Inner London Education Authority 1983–87.[292]
- Marion Boyars - publisher.[293]
- Rosalind Mitchison - historian of Scotland who specialised in social history.[294]
- Menna Gallie - Welsh novelist and translator.[295]
- Moelona - Welsh novelist and translator.[296]
Role models
[edit]- Eleanor Anne Ormerod - English entomologist.
Heroines of the Wallace Monument
[edit]- Mary Somerville - Scottish science writer and polymath.
- Christian Maclagan - Scottish antiquary and probably the first female archaeologist in Great Britain.
- Mary MacPherson - British poet and singer-song writer from the Isle of Skye.
- Sophia Jex-Blake - English physician, teacher and feminist.
- Mary Slessor - Scottish missionary to Nigeria.
- Elsie Inglis - Scottish doctor, suffragist, and founder of the Scottish Women's Hospitals.
- Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh - Scottish artist.
- Chrystal Macmillan - Scottish Liberal politician, barrister, feminist and pacifist.
- Victoria Drummond - first woman marine engineer in Britain.
- Jane Haining - Church of Scotland missionary.
- Nancy Riach - Scottish swimmer.
- Dorothee Pullinger - pioneering automobile engineer and businesswoman.
- Jean Redpath - Scottish folk singer, educator and musician.
- Maggie Keswick Jencks - writer, gardener and designer.[297]