The Woman's Page : : Journalism and Rhetoric in Early Canada / / Janice Fiamengo.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, journalism, politics, and social advocacy were largely male preserves. Six women, however, did manage to come to prominence through their writing and public performance: Agnes Maule Machar, Sara Jeannette Duncan, E. Pauline Johnson, Kathleen Blak...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Strong Statement, Trenchant Ideas, Promising Plans
  • 1. Agnes Maule Machar, Christian Radical
  • 2. The Uses of Wit: Sara Jeannette Duncan's Self-Fashioning
  • 3. 'This graceful olive branch of the Iroquois': Pauline Johnson's Rhetoric of Reconciliation
  • 4. Gossip, Chit-Chat, and Life Lessons: Kit Coleman's Womanly Persona
  • 5. Heroines and Martyrs in the Cause: Suffrage as Holy War in the Journalism of Flora MacDonald Denison
  • 6. Nellie McClung and the Rhetoric of the Fair Deal
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Index