A special acknowledgement to the crucial use of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women eds. Ewan, Innes and Reynolds and also Wikipedia.
Thanks also to Beverley Casebow, Olive Geddes and colleagues at the National Library of Scotland for helping source the Mary Burton and Anna Geddes images and for their on going contributions to WEA's adult education classes and research projects.
January
Mary Somerville by Tiana Sidey
Dorothy Macmillan (ed.): Mary Somerville Queen of Science - Personal recollections of Mary Somerville
Jane McKinlay: Mary Somerville 1780-1872
February
Mary Burton by Andrea Schwedler
Watt Institution and School of Arts and Heriot Watt College Directors' Minutes: 8 Oct 1869, 29 Oct 1874, 8 Nov 1876, 18 August 1884
D. G. Moir (ed.): Heriot-Watt College Literary Society: 1826-1928 (Edinburgh 1928). Held in Heriot-Watt University archives
Ann Jones: Rescued from oblivion? The case of Mary Burton and Liberton Bank House. SCOTTISH ARCHIVES 2000 Volume, The Scottish Records Association
March
Naomi Mitchison by Liz Beevers
Desert Island Discs 7 April 1991 on BBC i-player
Scottish Novels of the Second World War Isobel Murrray
Naomi Mitchison Saltire Society 1986
Naomi Mitchison A Biography Jill Benton 1990
The Nine Lives of Naomi Mitchison Jenni Calder 1997
April
Priscilla Bright McLaren by Liz Beevers
Willis Pickard: The Member for Scotland: A Life of Duncan McLaren
Elizabeth Crawford online via Google: Women's Suffrage Movement: a reference guide 1866-1928
Some of Priscilla's papers are in the National Library of Scotland Mss 24810-5
May
Phoebe Anna Traquair by Tiana Sidey
Elizabeth H Cumming: Phoebe Anna Traquair 1852-1936
June
Kitty Gregorson by Barbara Badger
Sources: Personal reminiscences of family, friends and pupils
July
Dame Anne McLaren by Liz Beevers
Papers in British Library (www.bl.uk.reshelp/pdfs/amclarenpapers.pdf)
Obituaries: BBC website, Telegraph 9/7/07
The Gurdon Institute, Cambridge
August
Chrystal Macmillan by Helen Kay
Helen was the coordinator for 2009 Gude Cause project to encourage women's participation in civic and political activities in Scotland, including the centenary celebration of Edinburgh Women's Suffrage Procession. She is a member of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom which was co-founded by Chrystal Macmillan.
photo - Aletta, Institute for Women's History,
Vijzelstraat 20, 1017 HK Amsterdam, The Netherlands www.aletta.nu
September
Sarah Mair by Elizabeth Bryan
Thank you to Dorrie Baker and Nigel Shepley, St George's School Edinburgh
Ladies in Debate, Being a history of the Ladies' Edinburgh Debating Society, 1865-1935
Edited by Lettice Milne Rae, 1936
Women of Independent Mind
St George’s School Edinburgh and the campaign for women's education by Nigel Shepley. Second Edition, 2008
October
Frances Melville by Barbara Badger
William W. J. Knox: Lives of Scottish Women: Women & Scottish Society 1800-1980 Edinburgh University Press
ed. Iain Catto: No Spirits & Precious Few Women Edinburgh University Union 1889-1989
University of Glasgow archives
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
ed. Lynn Abrams et al: Gender in Scottish History Edinburgh University Press
Scottish Universities Parliamentary Constituency By-Election 1938, election address of Frances Melville – independent candidate, National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh University Union, Park Place, publ. The Union, National Library of Scotland
Johanna Geyer-Kadesch & Rona Ferguson: Blue Stockings, Black Gowns, White Coats 1995
November
Anna Geddes by Kate Neilson
National Library of Scotland: MSS 10503, 10504 Geddes Papers
P. Boardman: The Worlds of Patrick Geddes 1978
H. Meller: Patrick Geddes 1990
December
Joyce Connon by Elizabeth Bryan
Source: Oral history interview with Joyce Connon for the WEA Scotland Centenary Archive project, 2003.