A Woman with a Purpose: The Diaries of Elizabeth Smith, 1872–1884
ISBN: 9781487574352
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Shortt Elizabeth Smith 1859–1949; Ontario -- Biography;

Elizabeth Smith's diaries are a rare expression of female experience, all the more valuable as the writer is articulate, sensitive, and out-spoken. They cover a critical period in the 1870s and 1880s.

Strong-Boag Veronica :

Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor emerita at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice and the Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia.


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