Author: Harry GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Group of Scottish Women
Author: Harry GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A Group of Scottish Women
Author: Harry GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Biographical sketches of 19 Scottish women from the 13th through the 19th centuries demonstrate women's achievement and strength of character.
A Group of Scottish Women (Classic Reprint)
Author: Harry GrahamPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780331657722
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Excerpt from A Group of Scottish Women Of materials for such a volume there is no lack. Interesting women are plentiful throughout the whole history of Scotland; the eighteenth century is particularly rich in them. How many books have already been written round the Ladies of the Covenant and still the material appears inexhaustible. What subjects for literary treatment are to be found in the lives of fair jacobites; of that devoted group, the Queen's Maries of the flames of the susceptible Robert Burns, or the friends of the large-hearted Walter Scott! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Group of Scottish Women; 2nd Ed.
Author: Graham Harry 1874-Publisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355613312
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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GROUP OF SCOTTISH WOMEN
Author: Harry 1874 GrahamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781363197682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The Scottish Women's Budget Group
Author: Scottish Women's Budget GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Quines
Author: Gerda StevensonPublisher: Luath Press Ltd
ISBN: 1912387786
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Call the Nurse
Author: Mary J. MacLeodPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611459176
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Tired of the pace and noise of life near London and longing for a better place to raise their young children, Mary J. MacLeod and her husband encountered their dream while vacationing on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides. Enthralled by its windswept beauty, they soon were the proud owners of a near-derelict croft house—a farmer’s stone cottage—on “a small acre” of land. Mary assumed duties as the island’s district nurse. Call the Nurse is her account of the enchanted years she and her family spent there, coming to know its folk as both patients and friends. In anecdotes that are by turns funny, sad, moving, and tragic, she recalls them all, the crofters and their laird, the boatmen and tradesmen, young lovers and forbidding churchmen. Against the old-fashioned island culture and the grandeur of mountain and sea unfold indelible stories: a young woman carried through snow for airlift to the hospital; a rescue by boat; the marriage of a gentle giant and the island beauty; a ghostly encounter; the shocking discovery of a woman in chains; the flames of a heather fire at night; an unexploded bomb from World War II; and the joyful, tipsy celebration of a ceilidh. Gaelic fortitude meets a nurse’s compassion in these wonderful true stories from rural Scotland.
Scottish Women
Author: Esther BreitenbachPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748683402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A sourcebook illustrating the experience of Scottish women from 1780-1914. Drawing on a wide range of source materials from across Scotland, this sourcebook provides new insights into women's attitudes to the society in which they lived, and how they negotiated their identities within private and public life.Organised in thematic chapters, it moves from the private and intimate experiences of sexuality, health and sickness to Scotswomen's migrations across the British empire, illustrating many facets of women's lives - domesticity and waged work, defiance of law and convention, religious faith and respectability, political action and public influence. A range of fascinating and rich source material sheds new light on the lives of women across Scotland throughout the long nineteenth century, demonstrating the pervasiveness of discourses of appropriate feminine behaviour, but also women's subversion of this. It raises challenging questions for researchers about the identification of women's voices, where these have been muted by class, religion, or ethnicity, while at the same time providing a methodology for uncovering these.
Where are the Women?
Author: Sara SheridanPublisher:
ISBN: 9781849173087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Can you imagine a different Scotland, a Scotland where women are commemorated in statues and streets and buildings - even in the hills and valleys? This is a guidebook to that alternative nation, where the cave on Staffa is named after Malvina rather than Fingal, and Arthur's Seat isn't Arthur's, it belongs to St Triduana. Where you arrive into Dundee at Slessor Station and the Victorian monument on Stirling's Abbey Hill interprets national identity not as a male warrior but through the women who ran hospitals during the First World War. The West Highland Way ends at Fort Mary. The Old Lady of Hoy is a prominent Orkney landmark. And the plinths in central Glasgow proudly display statues of suffragettes. In this 'imagined atlas' fictional streets, buildings, statues and monuments are dedicated to real women, telling their often untold or unknown stories.For most of recorded history, women have been sidelined, if not silenced, by men who named the built environment after themselves. Now is the time to look unflinchingly at Scotland's heritage and bring those women who have been ignored to light. Sara Sheridan explores beyond the traditional male-dominated histories to reveal a new picture of Scotland's history and heritage.