"In Times Like These"

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This paper examines how Nellie McClung's book "In Times Like These" chronicles the struggles of common, Canadian women on the frontier in a series of speeches and essays by the author that were intended for the public at large or the audience of suffrage and temperance organizations. It looks at how it celebrates the rural and western ideal of life on the homestead for both women and men and how it extols the moral superiority of Canadian country life over Canadian city life even while it strives to consciously uplift the Canadian urban locale through improved social policy.

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"Nellie McClung's In Times Like These is a testimony to the popularity of its author. It is a collection of long-standing, collected speeches and essays drawn from McClung's extensive career as a speaker for a Manitoba suffrage and temperance organization and shows that McClung was a popular enough speaker and public figure to have confidence that there was a demand to see her speeches in print that she had already given to a wide public audience. The book is a public and retrospective text, designed to speak to an audience and persuasively appeal to a middle-class audience-hence, perhaps one of the reasons McClung stresses good, solid values and the importance of traditional Canadian family liver versus the reality of immigrant, urban conditions."

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