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Alice Amelia Chown (3 February 1866 – 2 March 1949) was a Canadian feminist, pacifist, socialist and author. She was brought up in a strict Methodist family, and remained at home until she was forty attending her mother, who died in 1906. Chown then embarked on a life of travel and involvement in many reform causes. She was an original and iconoclastic thinker, and became one of the leading social feminists of her day. She is best known for her 1921 book ''The Stairway'' in which she recounts her life and growing freedom after 1906. ==Early years== Alice Amelia Chown was born in Kingston, Province of Canada on 3 February 1866. Her family was Methodist. Her relatives included doctors, lawyers and senior clergymen such as S.D. Chown, her uncle. She had six brothers in her well-to-do family. Her mother, Amelia, insisted that Alice received an equal education to her brothers. Alice studied political science and economics at Queen's University, and graduated with a BA in 1887. Her political science teacher, professor Shortt, tried to convince her that socialism was dangerous. In 1899 Chown was secretary of the Kingston Charity Organization Society, which believed in scientific philanthropy, and spoke on this subject at the National Council of Women of Canada annual meeting. Her speech was printed as an article in the Methodist ''Christian Guardian''. She stayed at home until she was forty, when her profoundly religious mother died in 1906. After this she started to travel and work on social reforms. Her decision to take advantage of her freedom at this age was somewhat alarming to the conservative middle-class society of Kingston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alice Amelia Chown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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