Marion Scott’s Professional Networks: A Dataset Uncovering Women’s Musical Connections in Early Twentieth-Century London

This dataset documents the professional networks of Marion Scott (1877–1953), a violinist, music critic, musicologist, and co-founder of the Society of Women Musicians. Manually extracted from 76 archival documents and records at the Royal College of Music, the dataset comprises 475 unique individuals and 774 documented connections spanning 1906–1953, stored as CSV and Excel files at Zenodo. The structured format enables social network analysis applications that can challenge canonical narratives about women’s roles in musical culture through computational methods, providing empirical evidence for understanding women as central cultural actors rather than peripheral figures in British musical history.