The Last Suffragist Standing by Veronica Strong-Boag (Hardback Book)

Name: The Last Suffragist Standing by Veronica Strong-Boag (Hardback Book)
Brand: University of British Columbia Press

University of British Columbia Press

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician, a New Woman who tested Canadian democracy.\nA rich product of archival and public sources, this biography of Laura Marshall Jamieson (1882\u20131964) opens a window onto the political and social landscape of the time. Veronica Strong-Boag chronicles Jamieson\u2019s life from orphaned child of marginal Ontario farmers to member of British Columbia\u2019s Legislative Assembly and Vancouver city councillor. The last suffragist in Canada to be elected to a provincial or federal legislature, Jamieson embraced issues such as factory labour conditions, minimum wage, feminist pacifism, housing, municipal franchise, employment equality, and internationalism throughout six decades of activism.\nStrong-Boag\u2019s\n\nThe Last Suffragist Standing\nThe Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Roy;