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Nellie Letitia McClung nata Helen Letitia Mooney (Chatsworth (Ontario), 20 ottobre 1873 – Victoria (Canada), 1º settembre 1951) è stata una politica, scrittrice e attivista canadese femminista. Ha fatto parte dei movimenti di riforma sociale e morale prevalenti in Canada occidentale agli inizi del 1900.
Women's rights activism. Nellie Letitia McClung ( née Mooney; 20 October 1873 – 1 September 1951) was a Canadian author, politician, and social activist, who is regarded as one of Canada's most prominent suffragists. She began her career in writing with the 1908 book Sowing Seeds in Danny, and would eventually publish sixteen ...
21 ott 2016 · In a long skirt and starched blouse, she would play football with the students at recess. Some parents objected – Football was not a ladies’ game – but Nellie finally won the parents over with tact and good sense. Nellie McClung’s personal commitment to women’s rights became her political cause as well.
2 mar 2016 · Against resistance from Premier R.P. Roblin, the famous suffragist fights for Manitoban women's right to vote (1916).Despite her work as a pioneer advocate f...
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Most Famous. Suffragist. Nellie McClung was an orator and an entertainer; she was an author and an advocate; she was a teacher and a legislator. She was a prairie woman who used her talents, determination, and energy to bring about change in society.
26 mar 1978 · Nellie McClung: Directed by George Bloomfield. With Nellie McClung, Shirley Douglas, David Gardner, Gerard Parkes. The story of the famous Canadian feminist activist.
18 ott 2019 · The actions of Nellie McClung, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Emily Murphy — the Famous Five — led to Persons Day. A women’s studies professor at the University of ...
