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My Mother the Judge: The Remarkable Career of Helen Gregory MacGill, British Columbia's First Woman Jurist (Signed) by Elsie Gregory MacGill
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Book description: Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1955 Very Good/Good First Edition, signed on the title page by Elsie Gregory MacGill, the daughter of Helen Gregory MacGill of Vancouver. Nicely bound in maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine. Top corners gently bumped, interiors crisp & clean & unmarked, front endpaper clipped. All pages FINE. 5.5" x 8.5", 248 pages, illustrated with frontispiece portrait and additional b&w plates, index. DJ has chipping and short tears, one 1" x 1" triangular piece missing from the back. - Judge MacGill successfully advocated for legal reforms that resulted in "better laws for women and children." This biography "credits women with being the instigators of modern social legislation, and details this development in British Columbia. It treats the movement for woman suffrage as part of the general social revolution, and the logical sequence to the struggle for manhood suffrage." . Hard Cover.
- Bookseller: Bruce McLeod
 (CA)
- Bookseller Inventory #: 007276
- Format/binding: Hardcover
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Ryerson Press
- Place: Toronto
- Date published: 1955
- Keywords: Elsie Gregory MacGill My Mother the Judge: The Remarkable Career of Helen Gregory MacGill, British Columbia\'s First Woman Jurist Signed by Author
- Subjects:
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / People of Color;
LAW / General;
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