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Nellie McClung : voice for the voiceless
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ISBN: 1894852044 Year: 2003 Volume: 20 Publisher: Montreal : XYZ Pub.,

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Nellie McClung : The Complete Autobiography
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ISBN: 144260221X Year: 2020 Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press,

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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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Literature as pulpit
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ISBN: 9780889205635 0889205639 9780889202351 1280924934 9786610924936 Year: 2006 Publisher: [Waterloo, Ontario]

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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

Growing a race : Nellie L. McClung and the fiction of eugenic feminism
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ISBN: 128352998X 9786613842435 0773573046 9780773573048 0773529373 9780773529373 6613842435 Year: 2005 Publisher: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press,

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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."


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The next instalment
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ISBN: 1771123931 177112394X 9781771123945 9781771123938 Year: 2019 Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario

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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)."--

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