Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen Suffragette and Journalist

Cover of "Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen Suffragette and Journalist" featuring a suffragette woman interposed in front of a group photo of more women, overlaid with a WPSU logo in purple and green

Booklet titled ‘Caroline Phillips: Aberdeen Suffragette and Journalist’ by Sarah Pedersen, Professor of Communication and Media at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. The publication explores the life and work of Caroline Phillips in the context of the women’s suffrage movement in the north east of Scotland.

Contents as follows:

  1. Caroline Phillips – Woman Journalist and Suffragette
  2. The campaign for the vote in the 19th century
  3. The Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU)
  4. The Suffragettes arrive in Aberdeen
  5. Splits in the Suffragette ranks
  6. National Scottish Women’s Suffrage Procession
  7. Temptation to join the WFL?
  8. Disagreeing with official policy
  9. A contentious meeting
  10. Turmoil and replacements
  11. Growing distrust
  12. Replacement
  13. The aftermath

Item Details

Date: 2017

Catalogue record: GWL-2022-96

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Material: Paper

Size: H: 265 x W: 210 mm

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