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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... Olla the gracious young woman whose modesty and passivity leave her exposed to disaster when she is made the victim of intrigue . Dolly , in her dazzling physical appearance , and Olla , in terms of her role in the narrative , bear more ...
... Olla , but like Winona , Valerie is prepared to take action in the face of evil , though her methods are dramatically different . The deliberate contrast between her wisdom and compassion on the one hand and Cecil's vanity and egoism on ...
... Olla Frazer , one of the most sympathetic characters , has a " brown " colouring ( 117 ) , whereas Cecil - who includes the epithets " brown , mean thing " ( 169 ) and " Miss Black - a - moor " ( 279 ) in her lexicon of spite - not only ...
... Olla Frazer describes her as " simply unique " ( 180 ) —but her characterization appears to have little basis in fact . Rather , it has everything to do with popular stereotypes of " the Indian , " as well as with the prevailing ...
... Olla Frazer casually reach over her mother's shoul- der in the darkening library to take up " an illustrated paper that lay on the table " ( 133 ) . Olla does not realize that Mrs. Frazer has deftly posi- tioned the paper to cover up ...