Laura Elizabeth McCully

Laura Elizabeth McCully (17 March 1886 – 7 July 1924) was a first-wave Canadian feminist and a poet, living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

[1] As a child, she was a regular poetry and correspondence contributor to the Toronto Daily Mail and Empire section "Children's corner", and in 1899, she was profiled in Harper's Bazaar.

)[4] She received a fellowship from Yale University in 1909 for her thesis on "the ancient Anglo-Saxon language,"[5] which the Toronto newspaper World noted was "rarely accorded a woman".

An active member of the Canadian Women's Suffrage Association, her writings included an article in Maclean's in 1912, stating "no human being is complete without the legal status of a citizen.

[8] That, despite resigning as the organization's treasurer a year prior, suggesting "Kaiserlike methods" of Miss McNab, the group's president, and in turn being accused of herself wanting "to be like the Kaiser."