Wawanesa: A Prairie Heritage - Nellie McLung, The Speaker

Nellie McLung's niece Ruth Scott says:

"I remember when she would come onto the platform and stand there completely composed , looking over her audience. Then her smile would come, lighting her face and crinkling the skin around her cinnamon brown eyes, radiating the warmth that seemed to gather everyone close to her.

She has been described as "a spellbinder" and she was! Her audience laughed with her. And when the program was over they felt they had made a friend and pressed forward to shake her hand."

Nellie Mclung was a popular and much sought after public speaker on women's rights and suffrage, temperance and issues of the day. Through her lecture tours and her writing she inspired many women. In particular, a contemporary wrote:

Nellie spent a number of years teaching at Northfield School

"She has the gift of presenting political issues with a strong simplicity which captivates the better inclined and the more generous impulses of her hearers. Her stories and illustrations make their point with rapier-like incisiveness and sledgehammer force. Her audience knows her instinctively for what she is- a sincere, earnest, and fearless fighter."

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Nellie McLung's niece Ruth Scott says: "I remember when she would come onto the platform and stand there completely composed , looking over her audience. Then her smile would come, lighting her face and crinkling the skin around her cinnamon brown eyes, radiating the warmth that seemed to gather everyone close to her. She has been described as "a spellbinder" and she was! Her audience laughed with her. And when the program was over they felt they had made a friend and pressed forward to shake her hand." Nellie Mclung was a popular and much sought after public speaker on women's rights and suffrage, temperance and issues of the day. Through her lecture tours and her writing she inspired many women. In particular, a contemporary wrote:







		Nellie spent a number of years teaching at Northfield School
"She has the gift of presenting political issues with a strong simplicity which captivates the better inclined and the more generous impulses of her hearers. Her stories and illustrations make their point with rapier-like incisiveness and sledgehammer force. Her audience knows her instinctively for what she is- a sincere, earnest, and fearless fighter."


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