Society, Politics & Law
The women of the Gorbals’ Campaign for Social Justice, 1923
...family, there were “extenuating circumstances” (The Weekly News, 3 March 1923). Lily’s mother and aunt were both born in the Gorbals, in the 1870s; her parents had moved to Leeds for work. The circumstances that led the “impressionable girl” (The Weekly News, 10 February 1923) to be deceived by two men became well known, because after five years of imprisonment...