Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937

Helen Kay, independent researcher, has a special interest in the woman suffrage movement in Scotland and the early history of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1915 to 1924. As a member of the Women’s History Network, Helen has promoted interest in the work of Chrystal Macmillan, working with Edinburgh University on exhibitions and giving presentations on various aspects of Chrystal Macmillan’s work to academic and community groups. Rose Pipes is a former commissioning editor with Oliver & Boyd publishers, Edinburgh, and now an independent researcher. Her own publications include The Colonies of Stockbridge and Stockbridge in Living Memory. She is also co-editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women and The New Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (EUP, 2006/2018). She has published several articles on Chrystal Macmillan as well as contributing to the Legal Landmarks project.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviations for OrganisationsList of illustrationsIntroductionChapter 1. The Edinburgh Years: Family, School, University and BeyondChapter 2. The Scottish Women Graduates’ CaseChapter 3. Women, Suffrage and ParliamentChapter 4. Working for World PeaceChapter 5. Working with National Issues and British OrganisationsChapter 6. Working with International OrganisationsChapter 7. Entering the Legal Profession and Life at the BarChapter 8. The Nationality of Married WomenChapter 9. Death, Memorials and RecollectionsChapter 10. Review and ConclusionSources: Archives, Newspapers, Journals and PeriodicalsBibliography: Published books and articlesAppendix 1: Chrystal Macmillan’s Membership of Committees, and Select Committees to which she gave evidence.Appendix 2: Twenty Resolutions from the International Women’s Congress 1915.Appendix 3: List of visits undertaken by Women Envoys in 1915.

The authors’ relentless documenting of Macmillan’s work and the authoritativeness and accuracy of their research acts as vital ballast to feminist legal scholars who are seeking to overturn mainstream histories that erase women’s contribution... We need books like this perhaps now more than ever.