{"product_id":"a-liberallabour-lady-the-times-and-life-of-mary-ellen-spear-smith-9780774867245","title":"A LiberalLabour Lady  The Times and Life of Mary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis authoritative biography of Mary Ellen Smith (1863–1933) – British Columbia’s first female MLA, the British Empire’s first female cabinet minister, and a BC suffragist – recovers from obscurity an audacious but imperfect champion in the struggle for greater democracy in early twentieth-century Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs an acclaimed scholarly chronicler of Canadian, especially British Columbian, herstory, Veronica Strong-Boag is determined that Mary Ellen Spear Smith will not slip from recorded memory. -- Phyllis Reeve * The British Columbia Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot quite a woman for her times, let alone ours, Smith seemed destined to disappear. Until, that is, Strong-Boag took on the task, uncovering both the good and the bad, using Smith as a lens onto gender relations and gender politics, British Columbia and Ottawa, and electoral politics and the power of connection. The result is a refreshingly complex picture of early twentieth-century Canada and of the crooked path to power.\u003c\/p\u003e -- P.E. Bryden, University of Victoria * BC Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Worker, Settler, Liberal, Feminist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Setting the Stage in British Mining Villages, to 1892\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Replenishing the Empire, 1892–1900\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 From Nanaimo to Ottawa and Back Again, 1900–11\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Boom, Bust, War, and Death, 1912–17\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Independent Liberal Lady? 1917–20\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 From Hope to Disillusion, 1920–28\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 On the Margins, 1928–33\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: British Columbia’s Famous Pioneer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitician: Making History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404950544727,"sku":"9780774867245","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774867245.jpg?v=1730488165","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-liberallabour-lady-the-times-and-life-of-mary-ellen-spear-smith-9780774867245","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}