Career
From the 1930s, Dott organised the Scottish Literature Society, and under this title, held events at her house in Edinburgh which included readings by people including Hugh MacDiarmid. In 1946, the Scottish National Party"s revised policy document was developed and signed by leading party members at the Dott"s house, and incorporated some of their ideas, taken from social cr and Georgism. Following this, in 1947, she was appointed as the party"s National Secretary.
During this time, she attended the 1948 Hague Congress on behalf of the party, and she stood unsuccessfully in the Edinburgh East by-election, 1947, taking 1,682 votes.
She was the only woman to stand in a British parliamentary election for the party until Winnie Ewing in 1967. Although Dott stood down as National Secretary in 1951, she remained active in the party, opposing John MacCormick"s Scottish Covenant Association split.
She served on the Scottish National Party"s publicity committee and was involved in the campaign to have the British queen recognised as the first Elizabeth to rule over Scotland. In 1962, she gave a speech at Broxburn in support of William Wolfe, where she claimed that Scottish MPs were "afraid of being laughed at" due to their nationalities.
