Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair: Difference between revisions
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Lady Aberdeen's influence also extended beyond her country estate. She established the Onwards and Upward Association, which provided servant girls with postal courses on topics ranging from geography to literature to domestic science. This program spread from Aberdeenshire to include thousands of servants.<ref>Slater, "The Noble Patroness Lady Aberdeen," 167.</ref> In 1883 she became the first president of the Ladies’ Union of Aberdeen, an organization that focused on the well-being of young women living in cities. An Emigration Committee chose suitable women and sponsored them to move to the colonies, especially [[Canada]].<ref>Shackleton, ''Ishbel and the Empire'', 99.</ref> Lady Aberdeen was also the head of the Women's Liberal Federation, which advocated for women's suffrage.<ref>Val McLeish, "Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen," in ''Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial careering in the long nineteenth century'', David Lambert and Alan Lester (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 261. {{ISBN|9780521612371}}</ref>
Her commitment to housing improvement and fascination with the work of [[Octavia Hill]] is recorded by her daughter Baroness Pentland who wrote in 1952 in a biography of her mother:
==Time in Canada==
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