Nell, who lived in Tayport, was trained in Edinburgh by John Duncan, a leading figure of the Celtic Revival. Nellie was a painter, but more particularly a textile designer and book illustrator. She exhibited at the Dundee (Graphic) Art Society… read more
Angela was a leading light in the design department of Dundee College of Art, which became Duncan of Jordanstone College, from 1932 – 1950, before moving to Yorkshire in the 1950s. She endowed a student prize, the Angela Bradshaw Award… read more
Ethel has a double claim to fame – as the finest Dundee woman artist of her time and as, if not the leader, then certainly the ‘most turbulent’ of Dundee’s suffragettes! Younger sister of Alice [footstep six], they were daughters of… read more
Nothing is known of Etta’s life and work after around 1900, save that she continued to live at the family home in Newport until her death, though it is known that she maintained an interest for some years in Newport… read more
Chances are you may have heard of Joshua Reynolds and Gainsborough – but not of Katharine Read. Yet she was just as well-known in her time – and just as well-paid as those famous artists. Katharine was born in Logie… read more
Mary’s grandfather was a linen weaver and her grandfather a factory overseer in the jute mills. Mary’s father Alexander Thomson Watt was a master butcher with two shops in Dundee. The family were members and (ordained)* being checked for meaning… read more
Around Dundee there is a trail of twenty-five plaques to commemorate remarkable Dundee women. Their stories are told in further detail in the Dundee Women's Trail book. Click here to purchase a limited copy.
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