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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... Jimsy , for example - remain vague . So too the narrative offers little explanation of how Androsia and Winona came to be foster - sisters and how their lives together evolved . Moreover , the preservation of these and other mysteries ...
... Jimsy there to carry up yer trapa . Here , Jimsy , lend a hand wid the things , can't ye , and don't be kapin ' the captain wallin . " Jimsy moved haughtily forward , and swung the heavy portmantean on his shoulder as though it had been ...
... Jimsy comin ' to take them up , and we've got to be back at Lizard Creek afore sun - down , along of Billy here and Sal Harty . " " You shut up ! " retorted Billy , much exasperated and crimsoning to the roots of his curly brown hair ...
... Jimsy , until a rich voice , redolent of the Isle of Erin , and close at his ear , brought him round with a start , to face a little man with comical blue eyes and a tall gaunt Indian lad of about nineteen , who stood like a bronze ...
... Jimsy there to carry up yer traps . Here , Jimsy , lend a hand wid the things , can't ye , and don't be kapin ' the Captain waitin ' . " Jimsy moved haughtily forward , and swung the heavy portmanteau on his shoulder as though it had ...