Jane Taylour

Jane E. Taylour
Jane Taylour, 1871
Born1827 (1827)
Stranraer, Scotland
Died1905 (aged 77–78)
Saffron Walden, England
NationalityScottish
Known forCampaigner for women's suffrage

Jane E. Taylour (born c.1827 - died 1905[1]) was a Scottish suffragist and women's movement campaigner, and one of the first women to give lectures in public.[2][3] She travelled around Scotland and northern England as a suffrage lecturer,[4] and was a key figure in spreading the message of the women's suffrage throughout Scotland and inspiring others to join the National Society for Women's Suffrage.[5][6]

  1. ^ Pipes, Rose. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press.
  2. ^ Leneman, Leah (1991). A Guid Cause: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland. Aberdeen University press. p. 19. ISBN 0080412017.
  3. ^ Breitenbach, Esther (2013). Scottish Women. Edinburgh University Press. p. 265. ISBN 978-0748683413.
  4. ^ Elizabeth., Crawford (2006). The women's suffrage movement in Britain and Ireland : a regional survey. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415383323. OCLC 59149398.
  5. ^ Crawford, Elizabeth (2003). The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide, 1866-1928. Routledge. p. 683. ISBN 1135434018.
  6. ^ Broomfield, Andrea (1994). "Review of 'A Guid Cause': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland". Victorian Periodicals Review. 27 (1): 63–68. JSTOR 20082749.