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She Won The Vote For Women
- The Life and Times of Lillian Beynon Thomas
Engelsk Paperback

She Won The Vote For Women

- The Life and Times of Lillian Beynon Thomas
Engelsk Paperback

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Lillian Beynon Thomas'' suffragist campaign succeeded where all others had failed. This full-length biography fills an important gap in the history of the ''votes for women'' movement, a campaign which saw Manitoba become the earliest federal or provincial Canadian jurisdiction to grant women the franchise.

To achieve the franchise, she eschewed the then traditional tools of back-room, partisan party politics by instead developing a broadly-based, grass-roots movement which stands as a forerunner of modern political campaign techniques. Facing hostile opposition to her pacifist views in Winnipeg during World War One, she and her husband went into voluntary exile in New York City. Returning home, she became a leading Canadian short-story writer, playwright, and public advocate for a Canadian cultural identity, distinct from that of Britain or America.

This is the story of how a young girl came with her settler family to a desolate part of the hardscrabble prairie and who, despite these humble origins, succeeded in engineering a fundamental Canadian democratic reform and championing the emerging Canadian cultural nationalism.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
312
ISBN-13:
9781773371283
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1773371282
Udg. Dato:
14 jan 2025
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
Great Plains Publications Ltd
Oplagsdato:
14 jan 2025
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