Ishbel Maria Couts Marjoribanks Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was not governor-general, as Saturday Night states, but possibly it was just that she was considered the power behind the throne. The governor general was her husband, Lord Aberdeen, a social crusader like his wife. Canada’s first aristocratic feminist, Lady Aberdeen (1857-1939) did not […]
Tag: Feminism
Girls want leap year every year
An anonymous letter writer to Toronto’s Mail, October 24, 1894, suggests every year be leap year. Society is still in a pretty benighted condition, or else it would not forbid ladies to propose to young men to whom they feel disposed to offer their hands, hearts and milliners’ bills. This is a sore point with […]
Bloomers ignite an apoplectic fit of misogyny
Women who wore trousers in the mid-nineteenth century were known as Bloomers, after Amelia Jenks Bloomer, U.S. campaigner for temperance and women’s rights. The impending arrival of Mrs. Bloomer in Toronto caused the Daily Leader to suffer this apoplectic fit of misogyny, September 12, 1853. Bloomerism, women’s rights ism! and the Maine Law ism […]