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Saturday, 10 March 2012

Alison Cockburn






Alison Cockburn/Rutherford is best known for her poem "The Flowers of the Forest", her salons were a social hub for many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers including: Hume, Burns and Walter Scott.
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      • Alison Cockburn quote gets put up in lights.
      • The Living Statues of 2012
      • Some warm up music for tomorrow :D
      • Living Statues- City Chambers 11th March 2012, at ...
      • Phoebe Anna Traquair
      • Alison Cockburn
      • Jenny Geddes
      • Chrystal Macmillan
      • Eliza Wigham
      • Sophia Jex-Blake
      • Elsie Inglis
      • Why campaign for more statues of women?

Scottish Women's history resources

  • Edinburgh museums leaflet on Edinburgh women's suffrage movement (pdf)
  • Women warriors Scotland
  • Glasgow Women's Library
  • Women's history Scotland
  • Amazon link to The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women
  • Biographies of women from Scottish history
  • Mapping Memorials of Women in Scotland - upload your pics of any memorials to women you come across
  • Out of the Shadow: Women of Nineteenth Century Scotland at the Portrait Gallery
  • Diaries of one of Elsie Inglis's nurses

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