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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... Mike Murphy . As well , the treatment of scenery and costume in these illustrations bears a resemblance both to an unsigned cover of the Canadian Illustrated News for 24 June 1871 , titled " A Moonlight Excursion on the St. Lawrence ...
... Mike Murphy's ghost story is told to the backdrop of a fearsome thunderstorm that reaches its climax simultaneously with the apparition of Winona , lamented and believed to be dead , upon the threshold . Murphy's terrified antics and ...
... Mike Murphy . As an urban professional , he is , in fact , a representative of the new Canadian middle class and an image of the future . An independent thinker , he is " courageous as a lion " in a " risky , uncertain business " ( 217 ) ...
... Mike Murphy , a red - haired " son of Erin " drawn from the resilient tradition of the stage Irishman , but individualized within the narrative by his humour , genial- ity , theatricality , and good - heartedness . The stage Irishman ...
... Mike's superstitious nature he was " not altogether the slave of imagination " ( 151 ) —only to have him vividly describe his experience of ghosts seen during a stormy night spent at a portage . When Winona and Androsia suddenly ...