¹ E. Gordon, Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850–1914 (Oxford, 1991), 3.

² D. Beddoe, Discovering Women’s History (London, 1998), 5.

³ J. Purvis, ‘From “Women Worthies” to Poststructuralism? Debate and Controversy in Women’s History in Britain’, in J. Purvis, ed., Women’s History: Britain, 1850–1945: An Introduction (London, 1998), 1–22; J. W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1999).

⁴ E. Breitenbach, A. Brown, and F. Myers, ‘Understanding Women in Scotland’, Feminist Review, 58 (1998), 54–6.

⁵ Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle, ‘Introduction’, in E. Ewan and M. M. Meikle, eds., Women in Scotland c.1100–c.1750 (East Linton, 1999), xx.

⁶ T. Brotherstone, ‘Women’s History, Scottish History, Historical Theory’, in T. Brotherstone, D. Simonton, O. Walsh, eds., Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach (Glasgow, 1999), 257.

⁷ Y. G. Brown and R. Ferguson, eds., Twisted Sisters: Women, Crime and Deviance in Scotland Since 1400 (East Linton, 2002), 2. Here they are referring to Christina Larner, Enemies of God: The Witch-Hunt in Scotland (London, 1981), and Rosalind Marshall, Virgins and Viragos: A History of Women in Scotland 1080–1980 (London, 1983).

⁸ L. Abrams, ‘Introduction’, in L. Abrams, E. Gordon, D. Simonton, and E. J. Yeo, eds., Gender in Scottish History Since 1707 (Edinburgh, 2006), 1.

⁹ G. Eyre-Todd, Scotland: Picturesque and Traditional (London, 1895).

¹⁰ S. Carment, Glimpses of the Olden Time (Edinburgh, 1893), vi.

¹¹ Ibid., v.

¹² D. Murray Rose, ‘Mary Queen of Scots and her Brother’; Andrew Lang, ‘The Household of Mary Queen of Scots in 1573’; Thomas Duncan, ‘The Queen’s Maries’, in Scottish Historical Review [SHR], 2 (1905), 150–62, 345–55, 363–71. E. Maxtone Graham, ‘Margaret Nairne: A Bundle of Jacobite Letters’, SHR, 4 (1907).

¹³ H. Grey Graham, The Social Life of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1969), ix.

¹⁴ Ibid., x.

¹⁵ Ibid., x.

¹⁶ Ibid., 1.

¹⁷ H. G. Graham, Social Life of Scotland, 538.

¹⁸ C. Kidd, Subverting Scotland’s Past (Cambridge, 1993), 7.

¹⁹ C. Kidd, ‘Race, Empire, and the Limits of Nineteenth-Century Scottish Nationhood’, Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003), 873–92.

²⁰ See J. Rendall, ‘Clio, Mars and Minerva: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Writing of Women’s History’, in T. M. Devine and J. R. Young, eds., Eighteenth-Century Scotland: New Perspectives (East Linton, 1999); ‘Women and the Enlightenment in Britain c. 1690–1800’, in H. Barker and E. Chalus, eds., Women’s History: Britain, 1700–1850 (London, 2005), 9–32; ‘“Women that would plague me with rational conversation”: Aspiring Women and Scottish Whigs c.1790–1830’, in Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, eds., Women, Gender and Enlightenment (London, 2005), 326–48.

²¹ The Scotsman, 3 February 1886.

²² David Hume and Thomas Babbington Macaulay are, of course, most notable in this regard.

²³ H. Graham, A Group of Scottish Women (London, 1908), viii.

²⁴ Ibid., vii.

²⁵ E. Murray, Scottish Women in Bygone Days (London, 1930), 29.

²⁶ M. Lochhead, The Scots Household in the Eighteenth Century: A Century of Scottish Domestic and Social Life (Edinburgh, 1948), 13.

²⁷ A. M. Mackenzie, The Women in Shakespeare’s Plays (London, 1924), xii.

²⁸ Aberdeen Press and Journal, 19 June 1924.

²⁹ The Scotsman, 8 September 1924.

³⁰ Ibid., 16.

³¹ A. M. Mackenzie, Lost Kinellan (London, 1927), 19.

³² A. M. Mackenzie, Scotland in Modern Times, 1720–1939 (London, 1941), 229.

³³ A. M. Mackenzie, The Process of Literature: An Essay Towards Some Reconsiderations (London, 1929).

³⁴ A. M. Mackenzie, Scottish Principles of Statecraft and Government (Glasgow, n.d.), 7.

³⁵ A. M. Mackenzie, The Kingdom of Scotland: A Short History (London, 1940), 374.

³⁶ There is little evidence to suggest a parallel here with the experience of Irish suffrage campaigners, as discussed by Cliona Murphy, ‘A Problematic Relationship: European Women and Nationalism, 1870–1915’, in M. Gialanella and M O’Dowd, eds., Women and Irish History: Essays in Honour of Margaret MacCurtain (Dublin, 1997), 144–58.

³⁷ I. Grant, Everyday Life of an Old Highland Farm (London, 1924); Highland Folk Ways (London, 1961).

³⁸ T. C. Smout, ‘Scottish History in the Universities since the 1950s’, History Scotland, 7 (September/October 2007), 45–6.

³⁹ T. C. Smout, A History of the Scottish People, 1560–1830 (London, 1989), 11–12.

⁴⁰ T. C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People, 1830–1950 (London, 1986), 159–80.

⁴¹ R. Mitchison, A History of Scotland (London, 1970), ix.

⁴² J. W. Scott, Gender and the Politics of History (New York, 1999), 21.

⁴³ Marshall, Virgins and Viragos, 315.

⁴⁴ Notoriety has also ensured the longevity of other biographical interests. See E. Gordon and G. Nair, Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: The Story of Madeleine Smith (Manchester, 2009).

⁴⁵ W. W. J. Knox has sought to reinvigorate biography as a means by which the ‘dynamic relationship between individual women and … patriarchal society’ might be explored. His study of the lives of ten Scottish women, however, focuses on women whose exceptionalism makes general conclusions tentative at best. See W. W. J. Knox, Lives of Scottish Women: Women and Scottish Society, 1800–1980 (Edinburgh, 2006).

⁴⁶ L. Leneman, ‘A Personal History’, Women’s History Review, 9:3 (2000), 453–81.

⁴⁷ R. J. Morris, ‘Obituary’, The Guardian, 4 October 2002.

⁴⁸ L. Leneman, Living in Atholl: A Social History of the Estates, 1685–1785 (Edinburgh, 1986).

⁴⁹ Checkland’s valuable studies in health care and social history, and Industry and Ethos: Scotland 1832–1914 (Edinburgh, 1984), co-authored with her husband, Sydney Checkland, suggest a similar career, yet her later work specialized in Anglo-Japanese studies, not women’s history or, indeed, Scottish history.

⁵⁰ B. Littlewood, ‘Foreword’, in Glasgow Women’s Studies Group, Uncharted Lives: Extracts from Scottish Women’s Experiences, 1850–1982 (Glasgow, 1983), 1.

⁵¹ J. Hendry, ‘Snug in the Asylum of Taciturnity: Women’s History in Scotland’, in I. Donnachie and C. Whatley, eds., The Manufacture of Scottish History (Edinburgh, 1992), 125–42.

⁵² L. Abrams, ‘“There was Nobody like my Daddy”: Fathers, the Family and the Marginalisation of Men in Modern Scotland’, Scottish Historical Review (1999); Myth and Materiality in a Women’s World: Shetland 1800–2000 (Manchester, 2005).