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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... Captain Frazer's life at Sandy Point , is " a splendid specimen of a Canadian backwoods - man " ( 107 ) . He speaks tersely in what might be called a frontier idiom using words like " varmint , " rustling , " " wrathy , " " down - right ...
... Frazer family , as their " general factotum " ( 231 ) , and becomes a welcome presence in their lives . In effect ... Captain Frazer and Colonel Howard " honey , " " darling , " and " dear " ) . He mispronounces words and phrases ...
... Captain Frazer " a small package , wrapped in birch - bark and tied round with thongs of fawn skin " ( 125 ) that he has brought from the far Manitoulin region to the country house on the upper St. Lawrence . Much to the Captain's ...
... Captain Frazer had landed , and the rice bed waved softly in the light breeze , There was a kind of cathedral quiet , mingled with a vernal cheerfulness reigning over the spot Nature rejaleed in her alliary place , and yonder , and sent ...
... Captain Archie Frazer of the 19th Blues1 looked disappointed at having his grateful intentions frustrated by the ... Frazer's detachment may be purely fictitious . gleaming in the eye of the sun . It was 80 ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD.