Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements iv
4. Abbreviations v
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Jane Welsh Carlyle: Living with Genius (1) 10
7. 2. Eliza Wigham: Religion, Radicalism and the Origins of the Women’s Movement in Nineteenth-Century Scotland 33
8. 3. Madeleine Smith: Sex and the Single Girl in Victorian Scotland 50
9. 4. Sophia Jex-Blake: Women and Higher Education in Nineteenth-Century Scotland 70
10. 5. Lady Frances Balfour: The Radical Aristocrat 98
11. 6. Mary Mitchell Slessor: Serving God and Country 117
12. 7. Elsie Maud Inglis: Scotland’s Joan of Arc? 140
13. 8. Katherine, Duchess of Atholl: The Red Duchess? 161
14. 9. Willa Muir: Living with Genius (2) 182
15. 10. Mary Brooksbank: Work, Poverty and Politics in Twentieth-Century Scotland 203
16. Annotated Bibliography 220
17. Index 227