First Person: A Biography of Cairine Wilson
Canada's First Woman Senator
Valerie Knowles's wholly objective study of Cairine Wilson not only allows the true nature of this formidable woman to shine through, but sets her life firmly within the politics and society of her day.
- Joy L. Santink, Ontario History, Spring, 1989
Valerie Knowles has written an absorbing biography of Wilson and the times in which she lived. The study is thorough but not pedantic, and rich in detail and interpretation.
- Lorna Marsden, The Globe and Mail, October 29, 1988