McClung, Nellie (redirected from Nellie Mooney)

McClung, Nellie

 orig. Nellie Mooney

(born Oct. 20, 1873, Chatsworth, Ont., Can.—died Sept. 1, 1951, Victoria, B.C.) Canadian writer and reformer. After marrying in 1896, she became prominent in the temperance movement. Her Sowing Seeds in Danny (1908), a novel about life in a small western town, became a national best-seller. She lectured widely on woman suffrage and other reforms in Canada and the U.S. and served in the Alberta legislature (1921–26).