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A passionate pen : the life and times of Faith Fenton /

By:

Downie, Jill [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0002554054 (hbk.)
9780002554053 (hbk.)

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Biographies

DDC classification:

070.92 20

LOC classification:

PN4913.F46 D68 1996

Contents:

Undercover -- A certain charm -- Liberty of conduct -- Through the looking-glass -- The lady vanishes -- Canada's dear, far-off women -- The spirit of vagabondia -- Shrieking sisters -- Head of the lady journalists -- The white city -- An unheard-of thing -- A woman's birthright -- Gold fever -- That one greatest love -- Return from the wilderness -- Postscript: Olive.

Summary: By day she was a respectable schoolteacher named Alice Freeman. By night she was The Empire's crusading journalist, Faith Fenton, who dared to challenge the conventions and values of the Victorian era. Jill Downie has uncovered the secret of Alice/Faith, the unconventional daughter of a shopkeeper who took on another identity to penetrate the closed, very male world of journalism. As columnist Faith moved with ease through society, equally at home with the rich and powerful and the less fortunate - from Lady Aberdeen, wife of the Governor- General, to the working mothers of Toronto's slums. She was everywhere, attending costume balls, visiting an aging Sir John A. Macdonald, interviewing the fiery suffragette Susan B. Anthony, covering sensational murder trials. At the height of the Klondike gold rush she reinvented herself once again heading for Dawson City as the special correspondent of The Globe. And there she met and married the love of her life. A Passionate Pen is a stylish, richly documented portrait of turn-of-the-century Canada. Meticulously researched and filled with the spirit of the times, it brings alive a witty and intelligent woman whose passionate concerns are as relevant today as they were a hundred years ago.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Barcode
Mixed media	Carleton University, AVRC	Archive of Canadian Women Artists	SP456 - Collections Room	PN4913 F45 D6 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan	16050188408

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