Nellie McClung

Cecily Devereux (University of Alberta)

Ed. by Wendy Roy, University of Saskatchewan
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

Born 20 Oct 1873
Died 1 Sep 1951
Activity 1905-1951

Places

Born in Canada
Active in Canada

Cultural Identities

Feminist

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Journalist
Lecturer
Novelist
Poet
Political writer
Reformer
Revolutionary, Activist
Story-writer

Resources

For most of the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, Nellie L. McClung has been the best-known English-Canadian feminist of the so-called First Wave of the global struggle for women's rights. McClung was born Helen Letitia Mooney in Chatsworth, Ontario, in 1873. Regularly designated as one of the top 10 or top 100 “most important” Canadians, she was a writer and suffragist who championed a range of social reform causes. In addition to female suffrage and other civil rights, including the protection of women and children in work and in divorce, custody, inheritance, and property disputes, McClung engaged with questions of temperance, eugenical reproduction and birth control, immigration and “naturalization”, public health,…

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Citation: Devereux, Cecily. "Nellie McClung". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 November 2004 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3030, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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