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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... Sidney Scott Crawford , and five surviving children , in the village of Paisley , near Lake Huron in what was then known as Canada West , setting up practice as a physician . A few years later , in 1861 , he left the area under ...
... Sidney the irrepressible " kid sister , " and 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 ...
... 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 women in the novel . Androsia , in the meantime ...
... Sidney does not mistake her for Androsia's maid ( 179 ) . Thus her difference is striking to the discerning , and she unsettles not only codes of gender , but also boundaries of race and class that are otherwise sharply defined in the ...
... Sidney Frazer on the St. Lawrence . His amusing blue eyes " twinkle " with " drollery , " and his talk is awash in stage Irish tags like " bedad , " " wirra , " " asthore , " " mushee , " and " begorra . " He shares the hard “ A's " of ...