What a famous name in suffraget history. One of the reasons that the males in Canada are so beaten up by their wives. Never should have given them the vote back in 1921, if my memory serves me right! Right JTF, GOM??
Nellie McClung, the granddaughter of the celebrated writer and suffragette with whom she shared a name, built a career for herself as a poet, artist, journalist, and activist.
Seven months after her birth in 1929, women's rights were recognized in the Persons Case. Her grandmother had been one of the quintet of petitioners known as the Famous Five.
She embraced her heritage.
"It's ingrained," she said in 1996. "It's who I am. I have her genes. And I've made a study of her life."
Ms. McClung began her career as a reporter for the Edmonton Bulletin, the Edmonton Journal, and the Red Deer Advocate, among other publications.
She published several books of short stories and poetry. Her more recent volumes carried such provocative titles as, My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems and I Hate Wives! The former included unpublished work by the famed actress, while the latter featured "terse verse" in the style of Ogden Nash.
She was born on March 21, 1929, in Edmonton and died in Vancouver on Feb. 13.
Nellie McClung, the granddaughter of the celebrated writer and suffragette with whom she shared a name, built a career for herself as a poet, artist, journalist, and activist.
Seven months after her birth in 1929, women's rights were recognized in the Persons Case. Her grandmother had been one of the quintet of petitioners known as the Famous Five.
She embraced her heritage.
"It's ingrained," she said in 1996. "It's who I am. I have her genes. And I've made a study of her life."
Ms. McClung began her career as a reporter for the Edmonton Bulletin, the Edmonton Journal, and the Red Deer Advocate, among other publications.
She published several books of short stories and poetry. Her more recent volumes carried such provocative titles as, My Sex is Ice Cream: The Marilyn Monroe Poems and I Hate Wives! The former included unpublished work by the famed actress, while the latter featured "terse verse" in the style of Ogden Nash.
She was born on March 21, 1929, in Edmonton and died in Vancouver on Feb. 13.
