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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... chapter of the novel , " In the Presence of the Tempter " ( 21 January 1886 ) , has actually been found ( see Varsity , " A Talented Lady Dead , " and Petrone 11 ) . Other works whose published texts remain untraced are " Monsieur ...
... chapters of Winona , with their wilderness adventure , threatening “ red - skins , ” and doughty backwoodsmen , have more in common with dime - novel romance than they do with Collins or Braddon , but the lineaments of the sensation ...
... Chapter I , and " Winona's Return , " Appendix E ) , they bear some resemblance to the work of Edward Jump ( 1832-83 ) , an itinerant French artist who had worked for Frank Leslie's publishing firm in New York before coming to Montreal ...
... Chapter XVII she archly alludes to the sensation genre itself in Ensign Spooner's fascination with reports of violent domestic crime . The amusement with which she describes Spooner's taste for the sensational is also apparent in ...
... chapter ( and seventh serial installment ) , he arrives at a crisis in his designs against the Frazers and Androsia Howard . Having spent the afternoon half charmed by the affectionate family circle into which he has insinuated himself ...