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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... farming ; taking the reader through our industrious cities , floating palaces , steam - driven factories , ship - building yards , lumber- ing shanties , fishing shacks , & c , and we offer the following prizes for the best Canadian ...
... Farmers , " and so forth , as well as " Our Puzzler , " and the occasional advertisement . Its prospectus of eminent American and British authors " Who Will Write for The Favorite " was more than mere puffery , though entirely typical ...
... Farmer's machinations with the 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 ...
... Farmer looks on , appraising Archie's demeanour . The romantic attrac- tion of the young couple and the ominous gaze of their antagonist are thus suggested , though it might be noted that Androsia looks far more welcoming in this ...
... ( Farmer's intended union with 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 ...