A Nellie McClung Manitoba Mystery

The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other StoriesNellie L. McClungToronto: William Briggs, 1912224 pagesWe have here a collection of short stories by a writer best known as a novelist.Scratch that.Nellie McClung is remembered today as a campaigner for women's rights. I learned this in 1973 when my mum brought home a sheet of newly issued postage stamps bearing her portait.My mother was born at a time when women in Canada were not considered persons under the law. Strange but true. She wasn't recognized as a person until the month after her second birthday. Nellie McClung worked to made that possible.I don't remember my mum mentioning that Nellie McClung wrote fiction and am not certain that she knew, though McClung had once time one of the country's bestselling novelists. Her 1908 debut, Sowing Seeds for Danny, sold over 100,000 copies.Toronto: William Briggs, 1908The Black Creek Stopping-House and Other Stories was the author's third book and the first of her two short story…