Frances Porter Murray (née Stoddard, 23 February 1843 – 3 April 1919) was a suffragist raised in Scotland, an advocate of women's education, a lecturer in Scottish music and a writer.
She first engaged with the women's rights campaign while visiting relatives in the USA in 1867-8, where she and her sister met Harriet Beecher Stowe.
In a letter to her mother in 1867, she wrote:"Indeed, here as at home, I find a woman better not have too decided views on any matter, literature, historical, social, reform or politics, if she wishes to be a man's favourite.
In her own words: "In my young days the aim of a mother was to make her daughter pretty and attractive and sufficiently accomplished to let her marry well.
"[3]Despite this, Murray did manage to deliver public lectures on Scottish music and organise concerts in her hometown of Cardross.