Nellie McClung: The Complete Autobiography: A Clearing in the West and The Stream Runs Fast

Synopsis
By 1929, when McClung fought the Canadian Supreme Court's ruling that women did not qualify as persons, she was already well known as a suffragist, writer, and politician. This may have seemed unlikely, given her early life in a colonizing farm family keenly aware that in Canada, white people like her were first amongst equals. However, the two volumes of her autobiography span a life marked by pragmatism rather than linear progression. She was dedicated to the tenets of her religion, not necessarily including the subservience of women, to the benefits of education, including that of the native population, and the humanizing influence of women in the political arena, although she could fight like a mountain lion when she felt it necessary. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR