Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Strong Statement, Trenchant Ideas, Promising Plans 1
5. 1. Agnes Maule Machar, Christian Radical 29
6. 2. The Uses of Wit: Sara Jeannette Duncan’s Self-Fashioning 59
7. 3. ‘This graceful olive branch of the Iroquois’: Pauline Johnson’s Rhetoric of Reconciliation 89
8. 4. Gossip, Chit-Chat, and Life Lessons: Kit Coleman’s Womanly Persona 121
9. 5. Heroines and Martyrs in the Cause: Suffrage as Holy War in the Journalism of Flora MacDonald Denison 153
10. 6. Nellie McClung and the Rhetoric of the Fair Deal 177
11. Conclusion 209
12. Notes 217
13. Bibliography 241
14. Illustration Credits 251
15. Index 253