The sweet sixteen : the journey that inspired the Canadian Women's Press Club

Responsibility
Linda Kay.
Digital
data file.
Imprint
Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012.
Physical description
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations, portraits

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator
Kay, Linda, 1951-2018.

Contents/Summary

Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Demanding Equal Rights
  • The French Connection
  • All Aboard
  • Getting Acquainted
  • Crossing the Border
  • Meet Me in St Louis
  • Down the Pike
  • A Day of Rest
  • The Boer War
  • Farewell to the Fair
  • A Presidential Convention
  • A Club Is Born
  • Winnipeg and Alberta, 1906
  • The Rise and Fall
  • Epilogue.
Summary
In 1904, sixteen women travelled together by train to cover the St Louis World's Fair. The Sweet Sixteen traces the fateful ten-day trip that resulted in the formation of a professional club for the advancement of Canadian newspaper women. Drawing upon letters, journals, interviews, and most significantly, newspaper stories written by the women themselves, Linda Kay narrates the journey to St Louis with evocative detail. Delving into the group dynamics and individual experiences of these women, Kay explores the cultural divide between the Anglophone and Francophone members of the group and provides compelling biographical sketches of each woman's life and work. The Sweet Sixteen documents the struggles of a group of tenacious and talented women who, in 1904, did not have the right to vote, were not regarded as persons under the law, and were credentialed as journalists at a time when marriage and motherhood were considered a woman's one true calling. Their legacy -the Canadian Women's Press Club - is a testament to their daring.
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Bibliographic information

Publication date
2012
ISBN
9780773587168 (electronic bk.)
0773587160 (electronic bk.)
1283531623
9781283531627
9780773539679
0773539670
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