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 (192126).