{"product_id":"she-won-the-vote-for-women-9781773371283","title":"She Won The Vote For Women","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLillian Beynon Thomas'' suffragist campaign succeeded where all others had failed. This full-length biography fills an important gap in the history of the ''votes for women'' movement, a campaign which saw Manitoba become the earliest federal or provincial Canadian jurisdiction to grant women the franchise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLillian''s Home Loving Hearts page in the \u003cem\u003ePrairie Farmer\u003c\/em\u003e newspaper, a weekly column in which she advocated for a wide variety of women''s rights, made her one of the most popular, pioneering women''s page journalists on the prairie. During this time, she founded the rural Homemakers'' Clubs affiliated with the University of Saskatchewan. To achieve the franchise, she eschewed the then traditional tools of back-room, partisan party politics by instead developing a broadly-based, grass-roots movement which stands as a forerunner of modern political campaign techniques.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFacing hostile opposition to her pacifist views in Winnipeg during World War One, she and her\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Great Plains Publications Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469930729815,"sku":"9781773371283","price":19.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781773371283.jpg?v=1744896824","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/she-won-the-vote-for-women-9781773371283","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}