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Nellie McClung: The Complete Autobiography

Nellie McClung: The Complete Autobiography

Strong-Boag, Veronica
Michelle Lynn Rosa, The Estate of

Paperback

Biographies GeneralHistorical FiguresCanadian History

ISBN10: 1551115727
ISBN13: 9781551115726
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: May 1 2003
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.58
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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