Winona; or, The Foster-SistersBroadview Press, 2006 M10 16 - 334 páginas The prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively Canadian fiction, Winona was serialized in a Montreal story paper in 1873. The novel focuses on the lives of two foster-sisters raised in the northern Ontario wilderness: Androsia Howard, daughter of a retired military officer, and Winona, the daughter of a Huron chief. As the story begins, both have come under the sway of the mysterious and powerful Andrew Farmer, who has proposed to Androsia while secretly pursuing Winona. With the arrival of Archie Frazer, the son of an old military friend, there is a violent crisis, and the scene shifts southward as Archie takes the foster-sisters via Toronto to his family’s estate in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Farmer follows, and the narrative moves towards a sensational climax. The critical introduction and appendices to this edition place Winona in the contexts of Crawford’s career, the contemporary market for serialized fiction, the sensation novel of the 1860s, nineteenth-century representations of women and North American indigenous peoples, and the emergence of Canadian literary nationalism in the era following Confederation. |
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... Androsia Howard's abduction are never adequately clarified : when Winona finally recapitulates this event near the novel's conclusion , details of the affray out on the lake the part played by the Native youth Jimsy , for example ...
... Androsia , " which pictures the young officer being greeted by the maiden in buckskins at the threshold of her father's home while a heavily bearded Andrew Farmer looks on , appraising Archie's demeanour . The romantic attrac- tion of ...
... Androsia and Theodore Denville's proposed union with Valerie ) . It is clear that Crawford was thoroughly , and to some extent ironically , aware that she was working with a fashionable genre ; indeed , she introduces the detective Jack ...
... Androsia Howard . Having spent the afternoon half charmed by the affectionate family circle into which he has insinuated himself , he watches the sun set while considering whether to go forward with his scheme . The charged imagery and ...
... Androsia Howard is at the centre of its ideological tensions . According to Lyn Pykett , sensation novels written by women in England during the 1860s reproduced a discourse of " the ' proper ' or respectable femi- nine " while ...