Leah Leneman

Leah Leneman (3 March 1944 – 26 December 1999) was a popular historian and cookery writer.^[1] She wrote about Scottish history including the struggle for women's suffrage.

Biography[]

Leah Leneman was born in California of European descent.^[2] She grew up in Los Angeles, educated in a private English/Hebrew school. She embarked on an acting career in the early 1960s first in New York, then in Islington, London (Tower Theatre).

Leneman became a vegetarian by the influence of Vedanta movement of Hinduism and later wrote cookery books.^[3]

She was also one of the pioneers of women's history in Scotland. She received an adult education class and developed her interest in Scotland's history, and after taking A-level, she enrolled as a mature student at the University of Edinburgh in 1975. She introduced to a wide audience many aspects of Scottish social history from the 17th to the 19th centuries. She worked on Scottish women's history and published many books later.^[1]

Publications[]

• Living in Atholl: a social history of the estates, 1685–1785 (1986),
• Sexuality and Social Control, Scotland 1660–1780 (1989)
• Fit for Heroes: Land settlement in Scotland after World War I (1989)
• In the Service of Life: the story of Elsie Inglis and the Scottish women's hospitals (1994)
• A Guid Cause: the Women's Suffrage Movement in Scotland (1995)
• Sin in the City (1998)
• Girls in Trouble (1998)
• Alienated Affections: the Scottish experience of divorce and separation, 1684–1830 (1998) ^[4]

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