Nellie McClung

Standard Name: McClung, Nellie

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Emmeline Pankhurst	EP developed important ties in Canada. Her personal influence was acknowledged by every one of the famous five (Emily Murphy , Henrietta Muir Edwards , Louise McKinney , Irene Parlby , and Nellie McClung
Friends, Associates	Pauline Johnson	During a tour of Manitoba, PJ met Canadian suffragist Nellie McClung , and they became close friends. Gerson, Carole, and Veronica Strong-Boag. Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake). University of Toronto Press, 2000. 16, 66 Keller, Betty. Pauline: A Biography of Pauline Johnson. Douglas and McIntyre, 1981. 90
Friends, Associates	L. M. Montgomery	LMM met novelist and suffragist Nellie McClung , but thought her rather lacking in subtlety. qtd. in Gillen, Mollie. The Wheel of Things. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1975. 136

Timeline

19 April 1916

The province of Alberta in Canada granted women the vote with the passing of the Equal Suffrage Bill, two years before all Canadian women gained the right to vote in federal elections (24 May 1918).

14 May 1920

Time and Tide began publication, offering a feminist approach to literature, politics, and the arts: Naomi Mitchison called it the first avowedly feminist literary journal with any class, in some ways ahead of its time...

18 October 1929

The Judicial Committee of the Imperial Privy Council ruled in the Persons Case that women were eligible to sit in the Canadian Senate .

Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.

II: 511

White, Anne. “Persons Case: A Struggle for Legal Definition & Personhood”. Alberta History, Vol.

, No. 3, 1 June 1999– 2024, pp. 2-9.

2-9

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