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class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Frances Melville</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Frances_Melville_fair_use.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/dc/Frances_Melville_fair_use.png/220px-Frances_Melville_fair_use.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Frances_Melville_fair_use.png 1.5x" data-file-width="272" data-file-height="384" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">artist unknown</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Frances Helen Melville</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1873-10-11</span>)</span>11 October 1873<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Merchiston" title="Merchiston">Merchiston</a>, <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh" title="Edinburgh">Edinburgh</a>, Scotland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">7 March 1962<span style="display:none">(1962-03-07)</span> (aged 88)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Edinburgh, Scotland</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Warriston_Cemetery" title="Warriston Cemetery">Warriston Cemetery</a>, Edinburgh, Scotland</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data">Philosophy<br />Divinity</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a><br /><a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Women's rights<br />Higher education<br />Political activism</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Frances Helen Melville</b> (11 October 1873 – 7 March 1962), was a Scottish <a href="/wiki/Suffragist" class="mw-redirect" title="Suffragist">suffragist</a>, advocate for higher education for women in Scotland, and one of the first women to matriculate at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a> in 1892. She was president of the <a href="/wiki/British_Federation_of_Women_Graduates" title="British Federation of Women Graduates">British Federation of University Women</a> from 1935 to 1942. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melville was born in <a href="/wiki/Merchiston" title="Merchiston">Merchiston</a> in Edinburgh, the elder daughter of Francis Suther Melville, a depute clerk of the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Session" title="Court of Session">Court of Session</a>, and Helen Alexandrina Kerr.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melville was one of seven children; five brothers and two sister. She spent her childhood in Edinburgh, where she was educated at <a href="/wiki/George_Watson%27s_Ladies%27_College" class="mw-redirect" title="George Watson's Ladies' College">George Watson's Ladies' College</a> and later studied music for a year in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following the 1889 <a href="/wiki/Universities_(Scotland)_Acts_1858_to_1966" class="mw-redirect" title="Universities (Scotland) Acts 1858 to 1966">Universities (Scotland) Act</a> which allowed women to graduate from universities in Scotland, Melville became one of the first women to matriculate at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a> in 1892. She graduated five years later in 1897 with a first class MA Honours degree in Philosophy. In 1910 Melville was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Divinity" title="Bachelor of Divinity">Bachelor of Divinity</a> degree by the University of St Andrews, the first woman in Scotland to graduate with this degree.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career">Academic career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Academic career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Frances_H._Melville,_c._1904.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png/130px-Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="141" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png/195px-Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png/260px-Frances_H._Melville%2C_c._1904.png 2x" data-file-width="359" data-file-height="390" /></a><figcaption>Frances Melville (1904)</figcaption></figure> <p>Following graduation, Melville worked as a tutor at the University of Edinburgh from 1896 to 1899, where she taught classes on logic, psychology, and metaphysics run by Professor <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Seth_Pringle-Pattison" title="Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattison">Andrew Seth Pringle-Pattinson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1899 to 1909 Melville held the post of Warden of University Hall at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_St_Andrews" title="University of St Andrews">University of St Andrews</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On her departure she wrote a "Memorandum on the duties of the warden of University Hall" which is held by the University of St Andrews Archives.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a short spell as lecturer in Mental and Moral Science at <a href="/wiki/Cheltenham_Ladies%27_College" title="Cheltenham Ladies' College">Cheltenham Ladies' College</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:2_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melville succeeded <a href="/wiki/Janet_Anne_Galloway" title="Janet Anne Galloway">Janet Anne Galloway</a> as Mistress of <a href="/wiki/Queen_Margaret_College_(Glasgow)" title="Queen Margaret College (Glasgow)">Queen Margaret College</a>, <a href="/wiki/University_of_Glasgow" title="University of Glasgow">University of Glasgow</a>, in 1909 a post she held until the closure of the college in 1935. </p><p>After becoming Head of the Women's Department at the University of Glasgow, Melville was asked to gather information on the suitability of women for diplomatic and consular service positions.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This led to a lengthy correspondence between Melville and educationist <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Rackstraw" title="Marjorie Rackstraw">Marjorie Rackstraw</a>, warden of Masson House at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Edinburgh" title="University of Edinburgh">University of Edinburgh</a>. Rackstraw was hoping to compile data from all Scottish universities in support of women's potential for governmental service and sought Melville's help to provide information on Glasgow's female graduates.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the height of her career Melville was the most senior female academic in Scotland, notable for her academic achievements and administrative abilities.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1927 she was awarded an honorary <a href="/wiki/Legum_Doctor" title="Legum Doctor">LL.D</a> by the University of Glasgow. She was the first woman academic to receive an honorary degree from the University.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In King's <a href="/wiki/Birthday_Honours" title="Birthday Honours">Birthday Honours</a> list of 1935 Melville was awarded an <a href="/wiki/Order_of_the_British_Empire" title="Order of the British Empire">OBE</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_activism">Political activism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Political activism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Throughout her life Melville campaigned for the cause of women's education. In 1902 she presented a paper "University Education for Women in Scotland: Its Effects on Social and Intellectual Life" at the Conference of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Union_of_Women_Workers_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland (page does not exist)">National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland</a> in Edinburgh<sup id="cite_ref-UnivEducationForWomenInScotland-1902_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UnivEducationForWomenInScotland-1902-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 1911 contributed a paper titled "The Education of Woman" to a collection of essays <i>The Position of Woman: Actual and Real</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melville argued that all women should have access to a general education and that the <a href="/wiki/False_dichotomy" class="mw-redirect" title="False dichotomy">false dichotomy</a> between the female ideals of domesticity and professionalism had a damaging influence on attitudes to women's education.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During her time at St Andrews she set up the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Association_of_University_Women&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Association of University Women (page does not exist)">Association of University Women</a>, from 1930 to 1931 she was president of the <a href="/wiki/Soroptimist_Club" class="mw-redirect" title="Soroptimist Club">Soroptimists Club</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she was president of the <a href="/wiki/British_Federation_of_University_Women" class="mw-redirect" title="British Federation of University Women">British Federation of University Women</a> from 1935 to 1942<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Melville was also an active and prominent <a href="/wiki/Suffragist" class="mw-redirect" title="Suffragist">Suffragist</a> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Edinburgh_National_Society_for_Women%27s_Suffrage" title="Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage">Edinburgh National Society for Women's Suffrage</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Scottish_Universities_Women%27s_Suffrage_Union&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Scottish Universities Women's Suffrage Union (page does not exist)">Scottish Universities Women's Suffrage Union</a>, the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_Women_Citizens%27_Association&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasgow Women Citizens' Association (page does not exist)">Glasgow Women Citizens' Association</a> and the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glasgow_Society_for_Equal_Citizenship&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship (page does not exist)">Glasgow Society for Equal Citizenship</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1906, Melville, together with <a href="/w/index.php?title=Margaret_Nairn&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Margaret Nairn (page does not exist)">Margaret Nairn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chrystal_Macmillan" title="Chrystal Macmillan">Chrystal Macmillan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Frances_Simson" title="Frances Simson">Frances Simson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Elsie_Inglis" title="Elsie Inglis">Elsie Inglis</a> took the universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh to the <a href="/wiki/Court_of_Session" title="Court of Session">Court of Session</a>, arguing that as members of the <a href="/wiki/General_council_(Scottish_university)" title="General council (Scottish university)">general council</a>, they were entitled to vote. The University of Edinburgh conceded that </p><blockquote><p>The women have been admitted to graduation in several of the faculties of the universities and their names have been placed on the Register of the General Council. They have attended and voted at the meetings of the General Council, and they have hitherto enjoyed and exercised all the privileges possessed by male graduates of the universities.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote><p>However they refused to grant their request. After losing their case in 1907, Melville and her colleagues appealed through the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lords" title="House of Lords">House of Lords</a> in 1908, but again the appeal was lost.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1937, after the death of <a href="/wiki/Ramsay_MacDonald" title="Ramsay MacDonald">Ramsay MacDonald</a>, Melville stood as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_candidate" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent candidate">independent candidate</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1938_Combined_Scottish_Universities_by-election" title="1938 Combined Scottish Universities by-election">Scottish Universities by-election</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was won by <a href="/wiki/John_Anderson,_1st_Viscount_Waverley" title="John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley">Sir John Anderson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Melville came second, ahead of <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Dewar_Gibb" title="Andrew Dewar Gibb">Andrew Dewar Gibb</a> and Sir <a href="/wiki/Peter_Chalmers_Mitchell" title="Peter Chalmers Mitchell">Peter Chalmers Mitchell</a>, with 5618 votes. </p><p>During <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a> Melville undertook a range of war work related to training women and during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> she was a driver for the <a href="/wiki/Home_Guard_(United_Kingdom)" title="Home Guard (United Kingdom)">Home Guard</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During her retirement, Melville lived in Dalry in <a href="/wiki/Kirkcudbrightshire" title="Kirkcudbrightshire">Kirkcudbrightshire</a>, before moving back to Edinburgh where she died on 7 March 1962 at her home on Merchiston Place.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is buried in <a href="/wiki/Warriston_Cemetery" title="Warriston Cemetery">Warriston Cemetery</a>, Edinburgh.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Melville House<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the University of Glasgow is named in honour of Frances Melville and the University awards the Frances Melville medal annually to the most distinguished honours candidate in Mental Philosophy.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works_and_publications">Works and publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Works and publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon 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A Paper Read at the Conference of the National Union of Women Workers of Great Britain and Ireland, Edinburgh, October, 1902 by Frances H. Melville, M.A., Warden of University Hall, St. Andrews</i>. St. Andrews: W.C. Henderson and Son. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/913571365">913571365</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=University+Education+for+Women+in+Scotland%3A+Its+Effects+on+Social+and+Intellectual+Life.+A+Paper+Read+at+the+Conference+of+the+National+Union+of+Women+Workers+of+Great+Britain+and+Ireland%2C+Edinburgh%2C+October%2C+1902+by+Frances+H.+Melville%2C+M.A.%2C+Warden+of+University+Hall%2C+St.+Andrews&rft.place=St.+Andrews&rft.pub=W.C.+Henderson+and+Son&rft.date=1902&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F913571365&rft.aulast=Melville&rft.aufirst=Frances+H.&rft.au=Donaldson%2C+Sir+James&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrances+Melville" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMelville1949" class="citation book cs1">Melville, Frances H. (1949). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C1654132"><i>The British Federation of University Women, a History</i></a>. London: British Federation of University Women. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/806040969">806040969</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+British+Federation+of+University+Women%2C+a+History&rft.place=London&rft.pub=British+Federation+of+University+Women&rft.date=1949&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F806040969&rft.aulast=Melville&rft.aufirst=Frances+H.&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.alexanderstreet.com%2Fpreview%2Fwork%2Fbibliographic_entity%257Cbibliographic_details%257C1654132&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrances+Melville" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frances_Melville&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-:1-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:1_1-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEwanInnesReynoldsPipes2006" class="citation book cs1">Ewan, Elizabeth L.; Innes, Sue; Reynolds, Sian; Pipes, Rose (8 March 2006). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&q=Frances+helen+melville"><i>The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women</i></a>. 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title="Wilhelmina Hay Abbott">Wilhelmina Hay Abbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Arthur" title="Jane Arthur">Jane Arthur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anne_Baikie" title="Mary Anne Baikie">Mary Anne Baikie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Bell_(politician)" title="Mary Bell (politician)">Mary Bell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agnes_Brown_(suffragist)" title="Agnes Brown (suffragist)">Nannie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Burton" title="Mary Burton">Mary Burton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Caird" title="Edward Caird">Edward Caird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Clapperton" title="Jane Clapperton">Jane Clapperton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Craigen" title="Jessie Craigen">Jessie Craigen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muriel_Craigie" title="Muriel Craigie">Muriel Craigie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Crudelius" title="Mary Crudelius">Mary Crudelius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Davidson_(suffragist)" title="Margaret Davidson (suffragist)">Margaret C. Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McAusland_Denny" title="John McAusland Denny">John McAusland Denny</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Helen_Fraser_(feminist)" title="Helen Fraser (feminist)">Helen Fraser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Finlayson_Gauld" title="Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld">Elizabeth Finlayson Gauld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edith_Hacon" title="Edith Hacon">Edith Hacon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_H._J._Henderson" title="Mary H. J. Henderson">Mary Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elsie_Inglis" title="Elsie Inglis">Elsie Inglis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Irwin_(trade_unionist)" title="Margaret Irwin (trade unionist)">Margaret Irwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christina_Jamieson" title="Christina Jamieson">Christina Jamieson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Keppie" title="Jessie Keppie">Jessie Keppie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harriet_Leisk" title="Harriet Leisk">Harriet Leisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Lindsay_(activist)" title="Anna Lindsay (activist)">Anna Lindsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Martin_Lindsay" title="Thomas Martin Lindsay">Thomas Martin Lindsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Lumsden" title="Louisa Lumsden">Louisa Lumsden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Macbeth" title="Ann Macbeth">Ann Macbeth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisa_Macdonald" title="Louisa Macdonald">Louisa Macdonald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chrystal_Macmillan" title="Chrystal Macmillan">Chrystal MacMillan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alice_McLaren" title="Alice McLaren">Alice McLaren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Mair" title="Sarah Mair">Sarah Mair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lavinia_Malcolm" title="Lavinia Malcolm">Lavinia Malcolm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Flora_Masson" title="Flora Masson">Flora Masson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lilly_Maxwell" title="Lilly Maxwell">Lilly Maxwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabella_Fyvie_Mayo" title="Isabella Fyvie Mayo">Isabella Fyvie Mayo</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Frances Melville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graham_Moffat" title="Graham Moffat">Graham Moffat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Murdoch_(Hull)" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary Murdoch (Hull)">Mary Murdoch (Hull)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eunice_Murray" title="Eunice Murray">Eunice Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Murray_(suffragist)" title="Frances Murray (suffragist)">Frances Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Murray" title="Sylvia Murray">Sylvia Murray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Mylne" title="Margaret Mylne">Margaret Mylne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Newbery" title="Jessie Newbery">Jessie Newbery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grace_Paterson" title="Grace Paterson">Grace Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Pease_Nichol" title="Elizabeth Pease Nichol">Elizabeth Pease Nichol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Margaret_Pace" title="Elizabeth Margaret Pace">Elizabeth Margaret Pace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emily_Rosaline_Orme" title="Emily Rosaline Orme">Emily Rosaline Orme</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Rae" title="Jane Rae">Jane Rae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_Kirkland_Reid" title="Marion Kirkland Reid">Marion Kirkland Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_Saxby" title="Jessie Saxby">Jessie Saxby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frances_Simson" title="Frances Simson">Frances Simson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Anderson_Snodgrass" title="Mary Anderson Snodgrass">Mary Anderson Snodgrass</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jessie_M._Soga" title="Jessie M. 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