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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... Dolly is the vacuous but tender beauty , Sidney the irrepressible " kid sister , " and Olla the gracious young woman whose modesty and passivity leave her exposed to disaster when she is made the victim of intrigue . Dolly , in her ...
... about to assume , and in a narrative that repeatedly furnishes lavish descriptions of women's hair , it has other meanings as well . On the one hand , it may bring to mind epitomes of beauty such as Dolly Frazer 40 INTRODUCTION.
... Dolly Frazer : “ a poetic grace about her graceful head , a nameless exaltation shining like a light on her broad , low brow , from which the golden hair rippled back in large soft waves , and , caught in a silky mass behind , fell in ...
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