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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... Indian Girl in Modern Fiction , " Toronto Sunday Globe ( 22 May 1892 ) • 299 Appendix B : Editorials on Literature and Publishing from Desbarats's Papers 309 1. [ " The state of Canadian literature " ] , Canadian Illustrated News ( 13 ...
... Indian " in early Canadian literature . It contains fasci- nating depictions of the Ontario hinterland and the rising metropolis of Toronto in the early 1870s . And it adumbrates the singular , if at this point unfledged , talent that ...
... Indian " tales , sea stories , historical romances , mystery thrillers , and tales of working girls , immigrant boys , labouring men , and socially refined " city life , " the basic formula remained constant : abduction and rescue ...
... Indian summer in eastern Ontario ( 131 ) clearly anticipates the mythopoeic " South Wind " section in Part 2 of " Malcolm's Katie , " and a passage on pioneering ( 134-35 ) looks forward to the central " nation - building ” passages of ...
... Indian boy " ( 222 ) ; moreover , when she arrives with her foster- sister at the Frazer estate , we are told that Sidney does not mistake her for Androsia's maid ( 179 ) . Thus her difference is striking to the discerning , and she ...