A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen

by Faith Johnston

Dorise Nielsen was a pioneering feminist, a radical politician, the first Communist elected to Canada s House of Commons, and the only woman elected in 1940. But despite her remarkable career, until now little has been known about her.From her youth in London during World War I to her burial in 1980 in a hero s cemetery in China, Nielsen lived through tumultuous times. Struggling through the Great Depression as a homesteader s wife in rural Saskatchewan,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887556906
• ISBN13: 9780887556906
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"