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A reconstructed world a feminist biography of Gertrude Richardson

Summary: Born in Leicester, England, and raised in a working-class family, Gertrude Richardson emigrated to northern Manitoba in 1911. She was influential in the women's and peace movements in both England and Canada. Devoutly religious, she challenged orthodoxy and worked outside the mainstream churches for peace and social justice. She co-founded one of the earliest suffrage groups in Manitoba and was a key activist in peace movements during the Boer War and World War I. She also served as an information centre for international antiwar news and ran an internationally focused women's peace crusade in World War I from her Manitoba farmhouse via the post and newspaper columns.

Record details

ISBN: 9780773565920 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773565922 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0773513949
ISBN: 9780773513945
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xx, 386 p., [6] p. of plates) : ill., ports.
Publisher: Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1996.

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:august.17 Multi-User. Issued as part of the desLibris books collection.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-378) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction: In Search of Gertie and the Mother-Hearts -- 1. Destined for "True Womanhood:" Working Class Girlhood, Middle Class Education, Radical Social and Political Milieu (1875-1901) -- 2. Defeat and Victory: Collapse, Recovery, Respectability (1901-11) -- 3. New Destinies: Emigration, Settlement, Farm Wife, and Feminist Leader (1911-14) -- 4. Sisterhood Divided: Suffrage and the War (1914-17) -- 5. "My Soul Is Going Out from the 'Women's Movement'": The Conscription Issue in Britain and Canada (1915-17) -- 6. Comrades of the New Womanhood: Canada's Women's Peace Crusade Versus "The Reign of Force" (1918-19) -- 7. Despair, Illness, Endurance, Loss, Death - No Happy Endings Here (1920-46) -- Epilogue: "These Things Were Worth Doing"
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.