Nellie McClung, a Feminist Who Acted (Up)

In 1914, Canadian women's suffrage pioneer Nellie McClung wrote and acted the lead part in a play called "The Women's Parliament," which postulated a society where men were not permitted to vote, and subjected a "delegation of men" to the kind of treatment women's suffrage activists had received at the hands of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba. She later turned the play into a short story "The Play," and a chapter of her novel, Purple Springs (1921).

Source: Columbo's Book of Canada, Edited by John Robert Columbo. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1978.