Not content with writing alone, McClung wanted to get women out of the home and into the political arena. As a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Canadian Women's Press Club and Political Equality League, she dedicated her life to female suffrage. In 1916, after years of struggle, women in Manitoba were granted the right to vote. Nellie's political work, however, was far from over. She was elected a member of the Liberal Party in 1921; became the first woman on the Board of Governors of the CBC in 1936 and, in 1938, was appointed a Canadian delegate to the League of Nations.
Historian Mary Lile Benham's vivid account of this feisty feminist brings to life Nellie's passion and her fierce determination to champion the rights of women.
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