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    The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story

    By Nellie McClung

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    Following Nellie McClung's classic autobiography Clearing in the West comes this highly anticipated second volume, The Stream Runs Fast. Covering McClung's later life from 1896 to 1945, The Stream Runs Fast chronicles her life during some of the most important events in Canadian history, including the First and Second World Wars and The Great Depression. It also contains her personal account of the Famous Five case in 1927, in which she sought, along with four other female activists, the right for women to be recognized as person under the law. This law, which allowed women to be elected to the Senate, was a major step toward the entrance of women into Canadian politics. As one of Canada's first female political and social activists, this account of the second half of McClung's life also documents her fascinating intimate thoughts, feelings and significant contributions on behalf of women, children and the poor.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReading Essentials
    Release dateFeb 18, 2020
    ISBN9781773238142
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    The Stream Runs Fast: My Own Story
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    Nellie McClung

    Nellie McClung (1873–1951) was a Canadian feminist, politician, author, and activist best known for her role in the women’s suffrage movement and the successful overturning of the law that failed to recognize women as persons eligible to sit in the Senate. McClung and four other women—Henrietta Muir Edwards, Emily Murphy, Louise McKinney and Irene Parlby—came to be known as "The Famous Five" or "The Valiant Five” for their fight for the equal rights of women. After leaving politics, McClung went on to have a long and successful career as a bestselling author and journalist.

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      I believe this is Nellie McClung's final book. It is a memoir, a collection of descriptions of diverse episodes in her life. The most interesting sections pertain to her work in having women officially declared as persons in Canada. In retrospect it seems unbelievable that anyone would have to struggle to attain the status of personhood for women, yet in McClung's time many vigorously opposed it, including Canada's Supreme Court. McClung and her colleagues, the Famous Five, were very clever in using different persuasive methods, including satire, to achieve their goals.Throughout the book McClung emerges as an admirable and determined woman committed to women's rights, the temperance movement, and equal treatment of minority groups. She didn't believe in spending "precious strength in the indulgence of hurt feelings," realizing that anything worth fighting for was going to draw criticism. The book is not all hard-edged political drama. Included as well is observations on the beauty of the natural world, travel writing, and family life. ( )