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Nellie L. McClung
1873–1951
A sharp-witted Canadian writer and reformer, she turned fiction, speeches, and public debate into tools for social change. Best known for her role in the fight for women's suffrage and the Persons Case, she helped push Canadian public life in a new direction.
7 Audiobooks
Sowing Seeds in Danny
by Nellie L. McClung
Three Times and Out Told by Private Simmons, Written by Nellie L. McClung
by Mervin C. Simmons, Nellie L. McClung
The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
by Nellie L. McClung
The Next of Kin: Those who Wait and Wonder
by Nellie L. McClung
Purple Springs
by Nellie L. McClung
The Second Chance
by Nellie L. McClung
In Times Like These
by Nellie L. McClung
About the author
Born in Chatsworth, Ontario, on October 20, 1873, and raised in Manitoba, Nellie L. McClung became one of Canada's best-known authors and public voices for reform. She first gained a wide readership with the novel Sowing Seeds in Danny, and her lively, accessible writing helped bring political ideas to a broad audience.
McClung was a leading campaigner for women's suffrage in western Canada and was closely associated with the reform movements of the early 20th century, including temperance and social welfare causes. She later served in the Alberta legislature and became nationally remembered as one of the "Famous Five," the women whose efforts helped lead to the 1929 Persons Case decision recognizing women as legal "persons" for Senate appointments.
She continued to write throughout her life, publishing novels, memoirs, and essays as well as speaking widely on public issues. McClung died in Victoria, British Columbia, on September 1, 1951, but she remains an important figure in Canadian literary and political history.