Great Rural Sisterhood

Linda M. Ambrose is a professor in the Department of History at Laurentian University.

• Introduction: Framing the Life of Madge Robertson Watt1. Formative Years: Family Influences and University Life2. Scripting the New Woman: Writer and Editor3. Playing Multiple Parts: Family, Society and Sorrow4. Role Reversal: From Colonial Widow to Imperial War Hero5. On the World Stage: Forging International Networks6. Sidelined by War: Waning Influence, Denial, and Death7. Conclusion: Interpreting the Significance of Madge Watt

‘Ambrose has put together a rich and detailed portrait of Margaret "Madge" Robertson Watt that highlights her contributions to early twentieth-century rural and international women’s activism…She offers a fascinating portrait of what it meant to build an international movement of women.’- Lisa Pasolli (BC Studies issue number 195) "Ambrose’s study will command a broad audience; it is not only a valuable scholarly text about significant themes and topics in Canadian history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, but it is also an accessible read that provides a complex portrait of a key figure in the history of women’s movements who had a vision of "a great rural sisterhood" and worked tirelessly to realize that vision."- Jodey-Nurse Gupta (The Canadian Historical Review Vol 99:2: June 2018)