Brief Profile

Christina was a writer and a suffragist who was very aware of the hard lives led by Shetland women. Unlike her brothers, she was expected to stay at home and worked as a pupil teacher in Sandness School where her father was headteacher. She wrote articles on Shetland life for several newspapers, sometimes under the name ‘John Cranston’.

She was a founder member of the Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society (1909) which became affiliated to the NUWSS and she marched for the vote in London carrying the Shetland banner she had made.

Christina felt that Shetland women should have the vote because they were the mainstay of the island. With the men away at sea so much, it was the womenfolk who bore the burden of running the croft and rearing the family.

She served on the Lerwick school board from 1916, on the county committee for secondary education, and on the education authority. She founded the Shetland Folklore Society in 1930.

In 1935 she emigrated to New Zealand, hoping this would alleviate her asthma. She died there in 1942.

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