Description |
1 online resource (227 pages) |
Series |
The Canadian short story library ; no. 20 |
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Canadian short story library ; no. 20.
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Contents |
The live wire -- Babette -- The way of the West -- The return ticket -- The runaway grandmother -- You never can tell -- The elusive vote -- Red and white -- Banking in London -- The neutral fuse -- Carried forward -- The grim fact of sisterhood -- O, Canada! |
Summary |
First-wave feminist, activist, and social reformer, Nellie McClung ranked as one of the most popular Canadian authors and among the liveliest critics of Canada's male-dominated society. Well ahead of her time, McClung was known as a writer who dared to discuss taboo topics, and for her inimitable humour, which rivals that of Stephen Leacock. This selection of her best short fiction includes depictions of difficult rural living conditions in Western Canada as well as "consciousness-raising" stories reflecting the undue restrictions on women and the anti-female laws and attitudes of her day |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Short stories, Canadian.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Canadian.
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Short stories, Canadian
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SUBJECT |
Canada -- History -- Fiction
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Subject |
Canada
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Fiction
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Davis, Marilyn I., 1930-
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LC no. |
97141784 |
ISBN |
9780776616957 |
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0776616951 |
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