Tanya Cheadle - Sexual progressives: Reimagining intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914

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SEXUAL PROGRESSIVES

REIMAGINING INTIMACY IN SCOTLAND, 18801914

Tanya Cheadle

Manchester University Press

Copyright Tanya Cheadle 2020

The right of Tanya Cheadle to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN978 1 5261 2525 5hardback

First published 2020

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Cover image:
Robert Burns, Natura Naturans, in The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, 1 (Spring 1895). Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, University of Strathclyde Library

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Writing this book has taken several years, during which time I have accrued numerous intellectual and emotional debts. The most substantial are to Lynn Abrams and Eleanor Gordon, who have been unfailingly generous with their time and expertise, their insights shaping the project from its inception. Thanks also go to Lucy Bland, Callum Brown, Don Spaeth and Karen Hunt, who read drafts of the manuscript and offered astute commentaries. Funding for the research in its early phase came from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and I am grateful to them for their support. I am also grateful to Emma Brennan at Manchester University Press, who has displayed patience and understanding as my teaching commitments necessitated considerable delays. In addition, every historian I have approached whose work in some way intersected with my own has either patiently answered my questions or generously shared with me their own research. They include Sheila Rowbotham, Maureen Wright, Sin Reynolds, Chris Renwick, Robert Morris, Brian Dempsey, Dorothy McMillan, Sue Young, Jeff Meek, Irene Mavor, Malcolm Nicolson, Marguerite Dupree, Gayle Davis, Michael Shaw, Kathleen Chater, Rosemary Elliot, Jowita Thor, Mairi Hamilton, Stuart Eagles and Bart Casey. The contribution made by students on my Gender, Sexuality and Modernity in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland honours course at Glasgow should also be acknowledged, with lively seminar discussions on aspects of the book providing valuable new perspectives. Thanks are also due to Maureen Purdie, who generously supplied information on the history of her home, once the summer retreat of Bella Pearce's family, to Christelle Le Riguer for her excellent translating work, and to the book's copyeditor, Caroline Richards, who caught a number of my errors. The responsibility for the remainder lies entirely with myself.

Librarians and archivists at all the institutions I have either visited or contacted have been without exception helpful and knowledgeable. They include staff at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow, the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh, the Glasgow School of Art, the Women's Library, Senate House Library, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, and Special Collections at the Universities of Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh and Liverpool. In America, I have been assisted by Lynn Prime at Sonoma State University Special Collections, Lisa Holland at Wagner College Archives and the staff at Columbia University Library in New York.