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figure 1.1 The composing room staff of the King’s County Record, Sussex, New Brunswick, c. 1900 / 7 figure 1.2 The staff of the Reference Library, Toronto Public Library, c. 1895 / 15 figure 1.3 Anne Langton, self-portrait, 1840 / 18 figure 2.1 Susanna Strickland Moodie, c. 1860 / 39 figure 2.2 Catharine Parr Strickland Traill, c. early 1890s / 40 figure 3.1 Joséphine Marchand Dandurand (“Josette”) / 55 figure 3.2 Isabella Valancy Crawford / 58 figure 4.1 L.M. Montgomery, c. 1940 / 87 figure 4.2 Madge Macbeth, photographed by Yousuf Karsh, 1938 / 88 figure 5.1 Marshall Saunders, 1920s / 99 figure 5.2 Marjorie Pickthall, 1916 / 100 figure 6.1 Robertine Barry (“Françoise”) / 109 figure 6.2 Ethelwyn Wetherald / 111 figure 6.3 Founding members of the Canadian Women’s Press Club, en route to the Saint-Louis Exhibition, June 1904 / 121 figure 7.1 Carrie M. Derick / 130 figure 7.2 Sarah Anne Curzon, 1891 / 136 figure 8.1 Nellie McClung, c. 1914 / 152 figure 8.2 Agnes Maule Machar distributing Humane Society literature, c. 1912 / 156 figure 9.1 Sara Jeannette Duncan, 1890s / 160 figure 9.2 Agnes C. Laut / 170 vii illustrations  figure 9.3 Agnes Deans Cameron, “My Premier Moose” and “The First Type-writer on Great Slave Lake,” 1908 / 172 figure 9.4 Mina Hubbard, “In the Heart of the Wilderness,” “With the Nascaupee Women,” and “On the Trail,” 1905 / 175 figure 10.1 E. Pauline Johnson, c. 1895 / 183 figure 10.2 Winnifred Eaton (“Onoto Watanna”), c. 1902 / 190 viii illustrations ...

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