[Nellie McClung miscellanea]. [19--]

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[Nellie McClung miscellanea]. [19--]

Bound, typed manuscript of McClung's novel Purple Springs.

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McClung, Nellie L., 1873-1951

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Nellie Letitia McClung (née Mooney) was a suffragist, writer, and public speaker. She was born in Chatsworth, Ontario and was educated in Manitoba where she received her teaching certificate at Winnipeg Normal School. Partly influenced by her future mother-in-law, Mrs. Annie McClung, Nellie became prominent in the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1896 on, and in the suffrage movement. In 1912, Nellie organized the Winnipeg Political Equality League with the aim of advancing women's suffr...