The Clear Spirit : : Twenty Canadian Women and Their Times / / ed. by Mary Innis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bennett, Ethel M. G.,; Burns, Flora Hamilton,; Chabot, Marie-Emmanuel,; Dumont, Micheline,; French, Doris,; Haig, Kennethe,; Harman, Eleanor,; Howes, Ruth,; Innis, Mary Quayle,; Livesay, Dorothy,; Loosley, Elizabeth,; Montagnes, Anne,; Peene, Vida,; Scrtver, Jessie Boyd,; Thomas, Clara,; Waterston, Elizabeth,; Wylie, Betty Jane,
• HerausgeberIn: Innis, Mary,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1966
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)

The Canadian Federation of University Women have undertaken as their Centennial project a biographical account of twenty noteworthy women. From a large number of vigorous and accomplished candidates a selection was made from various historical periods, from various regions of Canada, and from the various activities in which women have engaged. Each was to have significance in the development of Canadian society. It was also the wish of the C.F.U.W. that the essays should be based on original research and be written in a lively and readable style by women authors who are contributors to literary activities in Canada today. The book begins with the early pioneers of Canada in their several areas of settlement: Madame de la Tour, Mère Marie de l'Incarnation, Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. It includes Pauline Johnson, Laure Conan, L.M. Montgomery, Emily Carr, and Mazo de la Roche who over the years helped to establish women as professional contributors to literature and art. It has members of that honourable company of women with a cause: Adelaide Hoodless, Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and Margaret McWilliams. It brings together a number who were among the first to enter fields traditionally regarded as for men: Cora Hind, Agnes Macphail, Maude Abbott, Alice Wilson. Bibliographical references for these and other Canadian women are included. The writers are Ethel Bennett, Marie-Emmanuel Chabot, Clara Thomas, Elizabeth Loosley, Micheline Dumont-Johnson, Elizabeth Waterston, Ruth Howes, Kennethe Haig, Eleanor Harman, Doris French, Flora Burns, Jessie Scriver, Anne Montagnes, Dorothy Livesay, and Betty Jane Wylie: they too represent various parts of Canada. With its vivid pictures of people and society this book will have a wide and popular appeal: all those who are interested in Canadian biography will enjoy it, and younger readers particularly will find much to admire in the lives of these women.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Contributors -- THE ILLUSTRATIONS -- 1. Madame de La Tour 1602-1645 -- 2. Mane Guyart de llncarnation 1599-1672 -- 3. The Strickland Sisters. SUSANNA MOODIE 1803-1885 CATHARINE PARR TRAILL 1802-1899 -- 4. Pauline Johnson 1861-1913 -- 5. Laure Conan 1845-1924 -- 6. Adelaide Hunter Hoodless 1857-1910 -- 7. E. Cora Hind 1861-1942 -- 8. Maude E. Abbott 1869-1940 -- 9. Five Persons from Alberta. EMILY MURPHY 1868-1933 NELLIE MCCLUNG 1874-1951 LOUISE MCKINNEY 1868-1933 IRENE PARLEY 1878-1965 HENRIETTA EDWARDS 1849-1933 -- 10. Agnes Macphail 1890-1954 -- 11. Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874-1942 -- 12. Emily Carr 1871-1945 -- 13. Mazo de la Roche 1879-1961 -- 14. Alice Wilson 1881-1964 -- 15. Margaret Me Williams 1875-1952 -- BOOKS ABOUT OTHER CANADIAN WOMEN -- CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN -- Titles of related interest