"Canada" . . "Canada." . "Manitoba" . . "Manitoba." . . . "History"@en . . . . . . . "Political fiction"@en . "Political fiction" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Purple springs" . "Purple springs"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Purple Springs"@en . "McClung skilfully weaves together a series of social critiques in a tale of love, vocation, and coming-of-age, which sees Pearl, as a prototypical McClung, take on the corrupt Conservative government of Manitoba - and win. Purple Springs explores an important piece of Canadian social history. It invites its readers to enter imaginatively an earlier age when women were second-class citizens in law as well as custom, and gives at least one woman's view of what needed to be done to right that injustice. -Amazon.com."@en . "Purple Springs" . . . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . . "Fiction about a crusading young school teacher in a Manitoba community. Last volume of the \"Pearl Watson\" trilogy."@en . . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . "1900 - 1999" . . "1914 - 1945" . . "Women Fiction." . . "Women." . . . .