Marion Kirkland Reid
Encyclopedia
Marion Kirkland Reid was an influential Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 feminist writer, notable for her A Plea for Woman (1843) which was published in the United States in 1847, 1848, 1851, and 1852 as Woman, her Education and Influence.

Her father was a merchant in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...

. Kirkland married Hugo Reid in 1839. She was a member of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts
The Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts was established in 1869 by Elizabeth Wolstenholme and Josephine Butler in response to the Contagious Diseases Acts that were passed by UK Parliament in 1864...

.

See also

  • History of feminism
    History of feminism
    The history of feminism involves the story of feminist movements and of feminist thinkers. Depending on time, culture and country, feminists around the world have sometimes had different causes and goals...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK