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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... Miss Crawford competed , and after examination was informed by the Editor of the Hearthstone that she had been awarded the first prize of $ 500 for her story entitled ' Winona " " ( " Assizes " ) . While the story had been published ...
... Miss Drosia ' and her dusky familiar , " as Sidney Frazer calls them ( 180 ) . From the begin- ning , Winona is portrayed as an outsider capable of the extreme passion , feats of strength , and even violence that are taboo to other ...
... Miss Black - a - moor " ( 279 ) in her lexicon of spite - not only has a complexion of “ lucid pearl and rose " ( 142 ) , but also , ultimately , is remembered in a funeral that is a veritable ( and ironic ) riot of virginal white . It ...
... Miss Cross - patch and Mr. Singlestick , tiresome critics of " the good old style " ( 283 ) of romantic fiction that she now brings to a conclusion . She informs the reader that , regardless of what such critics might think or demand ...
... Miss Sally that she has my best wishes as you have alm , my Dead " The young trapper extended his huge brown THE FAVORITE . hand , and abook that of the speaker cordially , " you're a down - right good - natured chap , " he said ...