Francis Marion Beynon

Francis Marion Beynon was a Canadian journalist, feminist and pacifist. As the influential editor of the women’s pages of the Grain Growers’ Guide, she became a prominent voice in the Manitoba women’s movement, using the paper to campaign for political equality, women’s property rights, and social reform. Her outspoken pacifism during the First World War made her one of the most controversial figures in prairie journalism and ultimately cost her her position in 1917. She is known for her semi-autobiographical novel Aleta Day (1919) which explored the social and political tensions of her era.