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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... subplot about Cecil Bertrand's intrigues , and arranging their eventual intersection through the intervention of Valerie Lennox . Readers of this edition will , of course , encounter WINONA ; OR , THE FOSTER - SISTERS 31.
... Cecil Bertrand , and there are also colourful minor figures such as Sal Harty , Grace Fennel , and Rosie , the Irish parlor - maid . Each is characterized with some particu- larity , and , collectively , they imply a view , at this ...
... Cecil's vanity and egoism on the other is nowhere more striking than in their treatment of Theodore Denville and Percy Grace , their immature cousins who seek to marry them . Many readers , however , will probably find Cecil , like most ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. While the positioning of Valerie and Cecil as moral opposites is a highly conventional narrative strategy , the pairing of " the foster - sisters " is more ambiguous . Winona is ...
... Cecil - who includes the epithets " brown , mean thing " ( 169 ) and " Miss Black - a - moor " ( 279 ) in her lexicon of spite - not only has a complexion of “ lucid pearl and rose " ( 142 ) , but also , ultimately , is remembered in a ...