A New Day for Women: Life and Writings of Emily Spencer Kerby.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

A New Day for Women: Life & Writings of Emily Spencer Kerby

edited by Anne White. Calgary: Historical Society of Alberta, 138 pp., illus., paper, $17.95 to members.

Emily Kerby, wife of Calgary Methodist minister George Kerby, was an outspoken advocate of women's rights and many of the broad social issues of the day. When she arrived in Calgary in 1903 she initially devoted her attention to church work but by 1907 she was involved in a campaign to raise money for the YWCA and by ...

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