HIST 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Nellie Mcclung, Austria-Hungary, White Feathers
20 Jan 2017
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Dr. emily howard stowe and toronto women"s literary club. Discussed and debated whether women should be granted expanded political rights (votes, public office, the right to own expanded property rights) Her influence spread across the country because of her writing addressed women"s sufferance. Politics were so violent and corrupting that women should not be exposed to it. To prevent women from becoming corrupted, they thought they should keep women away from politics. Mcclung thought that they should be given a chance to try to clean up politics. A group of women would put on a play about a fictional world about the parliament being composed by only women and men were denied the right to vote. Organized by a local women"s rights group, led by lillian beynon thomas. Manitoba was in the midst of a heated debate and election about whether women should be allowed to vote. Became the first province in canada to let women vote in 1916.
