The Famous Five Analysis

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My main question for this project is: “How did the beliefs and values of the members of the Famous Five help drive them to fight for the legal right for women to be appointed to the Senate? The main source I am using is The Famous Five: Emily Murphy and the Case of the Missing Persons by Nancy Millar.
My main source is a book that explains the women in the Famous Five. A majority of this source is about Emily Murphy and how she was the central leader of the Famous Five, and the main instigator of the Persons’ Case. How this source is relevant to my investigation is that the book provides the information necessary on what these five women believed and valued during their time, and how those specific opinions of theirs contributed to their case against the Senate.
A significant limitation of my source is that Millar although she dedicated chapters to the other members of the Famous Five about who they were, what they were doing with their life before joining the Famous Five, and how and what they were able to contribute to the fight against the Senate, she mainly focused on Emily Murphy for the entirety of the book. My historical investigation project specifically requires the equal, detailed information about each woman, not only one. When being presented with only precise knowledge about one woman, and general …show more content…

An organization as dedicated as this one about the Famous Five and womens’ rights will have a stronger insight into the people behind the Famous Five, which ties into my historical project as it explains the women behind the public personas of themselves as revolutionaries and public leaders, but more of the core parts of themselves and how they viewed the

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