Name Marion Reid Role Writer | Died 1920 Books A plea for woman | |
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Marion Kirkland Reid (born Marion Kirkland c. 1817) was an influential Scottish 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. She was a member of the Ladies National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts.
Her father was a merchant in Glasgow. Kirkland married Hugo Reid in 1839. After Hugo died in 1872, she lived with her daughter in Hammersmith.
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