Sue Innes

Susan Innes (4 May 1948 – 24 February 2005)^[1][2] was a British journalist, writer, historian, researcher, teacher, artist and feminist campaigner.^[1][2][3]

Family life and education

Susan (Sue) Innes was born 4 May 1948 in Weymouth, Dorset, the daughter of Jean Corbin, housewife, and Alec Innes, a professional gardener.^[1] She was raised in North Wales and in Peterhead, the hometown of her father.^[1]

She went to Peterhead Academy and to Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen,^[2] which she gave up in the late 1960s, travelling to San Francisco to join the hippy movement.^[1]

She became an activist in the second-wave feminist movement as she started studying English and philosophy^[2] at the University of St. Andrews in 1970.^[1] She was editor of the university newspaper Aien.^[1][3] In St. Andrews she met Jo Clifford, Scottish playwright and her lifelong partner.^[1][3] Sue Innes and Clifford had two daughters^[1] in 1980 and 1985.^[3]

Career

After her graduation, Sue Innes worked as a journalist to BBC Radio, The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday.^[1]

She returned to Academia in 1993 and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1998 with a PhD in the areas of politics, history and sociology.^[1]

She published her book Making It Work: women, change and challenge in the 1990s in 1995.^[1][2]

She died on 24 February 2005,^[1] as the result of a brain tumour.^[2]

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