Descriptive Summary
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Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: McClung (Nellie Mooney) Letter,
Date (inclusive): 1915
Collection number: Mss2.M128
Creator:
Extent: 0.1 linear ft.
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], McClung (Nellie Mooney) Letter, Mss2.M128, Holt-Atherton
Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library
Access Points
personal name
McClung, Nellie Louise Mooney (1873-1951)
Brown, Mrs. E.K.
subject
Suffragists -Canada -Correspondence
Women authors -Canada -Correspondence
Biography
Nellie Mooney McClung (1873-1951) was a Canadian novelist, prohibitionist and
suffragette. She taught school in Manitoba (1889-1896), married Robert W. McClung (1896),
bore five children and authored sixteen books, the best known of which is Sowing seeds in
Danny (1908). She was a founding member of the Manitoba Political Equality Club (1912)
and she lectured throughout Canada on behalf of woman suffrage (1912-1914) until Canadian
women won the vote. McClung subsequently moved to Edmonton, Alberta where she was elected
to the Alberta Legislature (1921). As a legislator McClung worked for public health
nurses, free medical and dental care for children and liberalized birth control, divorce
laws and property rights for women. Defeated in 1926 because of her strong stand for
prohibition, McClung was later Canadian delegate to the League of Nations (1938).
Scope and Content
McClung's seven page letter is to Mrs. E.K. Brown of Winnipeg (1915) expressing sympathy
for her loss of a child. The file includes a published biographical sketch of Nellie
McClung.