A Guid Cause: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland.

It is good to welcome two books which give new insight into the lives of women in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland. Eleanor Gordon, in Women and the Labour Movement in Scotland, 1850-1914 (Oxford: Clarendon P., 1991; pp. 312. [pounds]35), and Leah Leneman, in A Guid Cause. The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland (Aberdeen: U.P., 1991; pp. 304. Pb. [pounds]11.95), have provided two substantial studies which, backed by thorough research, provide an antidote to the convenient but careless view that women's history in Scotland must be a pale image of that in England. Most of the women whose activities are chronicled here were middle or upper class, although Eleanor Gordon would emphasize that …