LEADER 03039nam 2200553 450 001 9910148601203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-5276-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442652767 035 $a(CKB)3710000000921726 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4730254 035 $a(DE-B1597)479276 035 $a(OCoLC)992489868 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442652767 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4730254 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11292415 035 $a(OCoLC)962450051 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000921726 100 $a20161110h19881988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe stairway /$fAlice A. Chown ; with an introduction by Diana Chown 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d1988. 210 4$dİ1988 215 $a1 online resource (352 pages) $cillustrations, photographs 225 0 $aHeritage 311 $a0-8020-6683-6 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tIntroduction -- $tPreface -- $tThe Stairway. Part I -- $tThe Stairway. Part II 330 $aRadical feminist and pacifist Alice Chown was born in Kingston, Ontario, in 1866. Until the age of forty she cared for her devoutly religious mother and acted as matriarch of the family household. When her mother died in 1906, Alice was at last free to live as she chose, travelling widely and exploring a number of avenues of social reform. The diaries she kept for the next thirteen years were the basis from which she wrote The Stairway. First published in 1921, and for many years out of print, The Stairway is one of Canada's early feminist classics.It tells of an extraordinary life: suffragist, settlement worker, peace activist, journalist, labour activist, college teacher, and itinerant catalyst for social change. During the First World War her pacifist stance brought about a bitter split with the mainstream women's movement in Canada, and in 1917 she moved to the United States. She lived there for the next ten years, during which time The Stairway was published in Boston. In 1927 she returned to Canada. where she continued to live until her death in 1949.Inspired by a belief in a new age of humanism which gained significant popularity in Victorian Canada, Alice Chown was in many ways a woman very much of her time. She was also far ahead of it: to feminist and pacifist ears today, the voice in The Stairway rings true. 606 $aFeminists$zCanada$vDiaries 606 $aRadicals$zCanada$vDiaries 606 $aPacifists$zCanada$vDiaries 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFeminists 615 0$aRadicals 615 0$aPacifists 676 $a305.4092 700 $aChown$b Alice A$g(Alice Amelia),$f1866-1949,$0976374 702 $aChown$b Diana$f1939- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910148601203321 996 $aThe stairway$92224268 997 $aUNINA