ADELAIDE HOODLESS

Dundurn Press, Toronto, 1986.  ISBN 1-55002-017-X.  Trade soft cover, 183 pages including Chronology, Notes, General Bibliography, and Illustration and Photo Credits.  Good; wraps show some edge and cover wear, creases on front cover and reading creases along front spine edge.  Binding sound.  Former Institute copy with name at top of first page and envelope affixed to verso of rear wrap with lending card, two straightened small lower corner bends.  Remainder of interior clean and unmarked; black & white frontis and photos.  “Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the ‘radical new women’ of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  She helped turn the Canadian YWCA into a national organization.  She founded the Women’s Institute, assisted in the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses and represented Canada on numerous International Councils of Women, as well as establishing the first school for the training of domestic science teachers in Canada and putting together the first Canadian domestic science textbook, popularly known as the ‘Little Red Book’.” (from rear wrap)