Sara Sheridan

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Sara Sheridan Writer Sara Sheridan Writer, Edinburgh. 157 likes. Posts about the writing life of author Sara Sheridan including historical research, publication adventures and lots of reading. Love books? Interested in...

Writing at length today on FB about a tough week on the new novel. I'm at the coalface right now - 70% of the way through and it's all got to come together. 👇https://www.facebook.com/sheridanwritesherstory/

Aww thank you - that means the world. X

Where are the Women? Shop online for Where are the Women? publication from Historic Scotland at stor.scot for Scottish books available with international delivery.

This was a fascinating generation of steely, clear-sighted pioneers who made a difference. This thread cd be a lot longer but yes, they're all in my book, where are the women? Walk this way 👉 shop.historicenvironment.scot/where-are-th...

Louisa Garret Anderson. The women are buried together & the tombstone reads 'We have been gloriously happy' but more than happy, they showed vision & determination at a time when there was serious opposition to women being doctors. Without them that fight wd not have been won /5

This is Flora Murray, from Dumfries, another early Edinburgh medical graduate who also got involved in setting up the London school & ran field hospitals during WW1. She wrote about the challenge of being taken seriously as an early female dr & was the life partner of ... /3

Next, the love of Sophia's life, Margaret Todd who wrote a novel (published under a pseudonym) about being a female medical student in the late 19th century. She helped Frederick Soddy name the 'isotope' and also wrote a biography about Sophia after her death /2

Let's have a thread of Scotland's queer medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake trained at Edin Uni but wasn't allowed to graduate. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. What A Legend. #histmed #WomenInSTEM /1

I saw this shop the other day and thought it looked fab . Glad to see they're stocking the quality 😂. So lovely to see more bookshops opening in central Glasgow. XX

Can't wait but I've a few weeks yet. Then I'll get all cosy and fire through it! x

I'm dreaming of my TBR and the great books I'll get round to once I've finished the draft I'm working on. This one by
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Thank you. Sx

The face of an author who was up half the night. Think I've caught a bug. Bed and as much writing as I can manage today, I guess.

My long post this week on FB: talking about the Frankfurt Book Fair this week. 👇https://www.facebook.com/sheridanwritesherstory/

So stuff everybody agreeing about everything. Divisive debate is mandatory if we want change, and everything that is going on right now, is a product of it having been time for change for some time, and people NOT engaging in enough divisive debate. So there. 🤣

BONUS divisive Scottish woman: Quaker Eliza Wigham, anti-slavery campaigner who's been described as 1 of the 6 key women in the British Transatlantic anti-slavery sisterhood. They campaigned (against huge opposition) to free indentured workers in the US. Legend. So proud of her.

There's no progress w/out 'divisive' debate & indeed sometimes, action. Civilisations that don't have those debates & change accordingly die. And yes I wrote a book (of course I did) with all these amazing women & many more. 👉 historicenvironment.scot/archives-and... #Sheroes every one

Public opinion was divided about the Rent Strike on Red Clydeside, fired by formidable quine, Mary Barbour, who encouraged tenants to pelt rent collectors with eggs and flour. Quite. Right. Condemnation of 'division' is naive. We need our difficult conversations. /6

Women in Scotland have always stood up for their views even when this wasn't the norm. In 1872, a group of domestic servants formed the Dundee and District Domestic Servants Assoc, the 1st assoc of its kind - a union for domestic staff. V divisive at the time. /5

Jacobite women. Jacobitism v Hanoverianism was Civil War. These lasses busted ppl out of jail, misdirected armies, hid fleeing soldiers. So. Fucking. Divisive. Flora MacDonald got Bonnie Prince Charlie away, then fought for the British in the US. Division personified. /4

Sophia Jex Blake who caused dreadful division in the medical community by seeking to become a doctor. Tut tut, Sophia. She was described by contemporary Elizabeth Blackwell as ‘a dangerous woman’ because of her steely determination to break down closed doors. She succeeded. /3

Next 1000s of Scottish suffragettes,criticised in their struggle for 'being divisive'. These women took militant action as well as raising petitions etc. My fave is Mary Maloney who followed Churchill round Dundee in 1908 ringing a bell because he wouldn't address the issue. /2

Politics is getting hairy so ... A thread of amazing Scottish foremothers who knew being divisive is the path to change. 1st, Rose Klasko Kerrigan, sacked at 14 for speaking against WWI. She scandalized Glasgow’s only birth control clinic by seeking contraception before she had kids. /1

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Weeks 16 & 17. I'm two thirds of the way through plus I've written a 4000 word acknowledgement & historical note. The book is now 68000 words long & I've no idea how it's going to end. Exciting times . It's weird that at the beginning of the summer this was all just an idea.

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Hailing all brave agents off to the Frankfurt Book Fair (esp mine!) May the rights be legion.

I literally just sorted mine out in order of cosiness for the chill days ahead. 😂

Burns' bairns and bedroom tales, examined from a 21st century family law perspective | Brodies LLP Garry Sturrock, aberdeen based family lawyer, examines the legacy of Robert Burns from a 21st century family law perspective for Burns Night, including Robbie Burns' children and marriage

For your delectation: a piece about Jean Armour's rights within marriage to divorce Robert Burns if they lived in the present day. I laughed a lot.
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Startup launches ‘industry-first’ certification for human-made books UK start-up Books By People has launched a new certification – the Organic Literature Certification – with a group of independent publishing houses to “counter AI-generated books”.

If you care about the future of books and publishing, I highly recommend you get behind this initiative with your whole hearts - (for what it's worth I think the whole of publishing should do this) www.thebookseller.com/news/uk-star...

Editing today. Pray for me.

Professor Mark Logan: 'Outside the country, others are looking at Scotland anew' Scotland’s tech start-up sector has developed strongly over the past five years, arriving at perhaps its most vibrant state in living memory

"The latent genius of the great engineers and thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment still exists in our community today. To be found and to flourish, all it really needs is belief."

An upbeat, encouraging article from Professor Mark Logan OBE FRSE.
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