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Feminists --- Authors, Canadian --- Féministes --- Ecrivains canadiens --- Biographies --- Biographies --- McClung, Nellie L.,
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Nellie Letitia McClung (1873-1951) is recognized as a key figure in Canadian history as well as Canadian literature. Her two-volume autobiography provides a remarkable and very readable account of a truly extraordinary life. McClung is best known for her involvement in the 1929 "Person's Case," in which the British Privy Council ruled in favour of an appeal by the "Famous Five" against the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada that women did not qualify legally as persons. McClung had, however, been a high profile figure, as a suffragist, politician, and writer, in Canadian politics and literature for many years and remained so well into the 1940s. Her autobiography provides unique insight into Canadian public affairs in the first half of the twentieth century. Equally interesting are McClung's accounts of her early days as a child, teacher, young wife and mother. With her fine eye for detail, she makes the Canada of her time come vividly alive for readers. Originally published in two volumes, McClung's autobiographies found a wide audience from their first publication in 1935 and 1945. They have never before been available in a single volume. For this re-issue Veronica Strong-Boag and Michelle Lynn Rosa have written a substantial introduction and added explanatory notes that illuminate the woman and the historical context for modern readers.
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Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) was an internationally celebrated feminist and social activist whose success as a platform speaker was legendary. Her earliest notoriety was achieved as a writer, and during her lengthy career she authored four novels, two novellas, three collections of short stories, a two-volume autobiography and various collections of speeches, articles and wartime writing, to a total of sixteen volumes. All this served as a ""pulpit"" from which McClung could preach her gospel of feminist activism and social transformation. She was convinced that God's intention for Creati
Christian biography --- Christian life --- Christianity --- Christians --- Church biography --- Ecclesiastical biography --- Biography --- Religious biography --- McClung, Nellie L., --- McClung, Nellie Letitia Mooney, --- Mooney, Nellie Letitia, --- Political and social views. --- Religion.
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Cecily Devereux reconsiders the extent to which McClung's enduring legacy of crusading for women's rights is founded on the ideas of British eugenicists such as Francis Galton and Caleb Saleeby and implicated in the passage of eugenical legislation in Canada. In a critical study of Painted Fires, the Pearlie Watson books, and several short stories, Devereux attempts to understand McClung's fiction in terms of its engagement with a politics of "race" and nation and constructions of specifically "racial" impurities that many women saw themselves as uniquely able to "cure."
Eugenics in literature. --- Feminism in literature. --- British --- British people --- Britishers --- Britons (British) --- Brits --- Ethnology --- Feminist theory in literature --- Social aspects. --- McClung, Nellie L., --- McClung, Nellie Letitia Mooney, --- Mooney, Nellie Letitia,
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"It's about three Canadian writers and how, under the influence of publishing practices of early-20th- century Canada, they became practitioners of the continuing story (i.e., stories that appeared in instalments)."--
Canadian literature --- Serial publication of books. --- Sequels (Literature) --- Serialized fiction --- Publishers and publishing --- History and criticism. --- History --- McClung, Nellie L., --- Canadian literature. --- Canadian women's fiction. --- L.M. Montgomery. --- Mazo de la Roche. --- Nellie L. McClung. --- continuing stories. --- cultural studies in Canada. --- early 20th-century Canadian women's writing. --- film and television adaptation. --- gender studies. --- literary sequels. --- novel serialization.
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