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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... author , Mary Muchall , Catharine Parr Traill's third daughter , whom Crawford would doubtless have known earlier through ... authors , along with " Susanna Moody " of Lakefield , I There is a dearth of family archival material for both ...
... authors . While it is difficult to judge how far this custom of loyalty applied to Crawford , it seems clear that she established a reliable and congenial relationship with her Leslie editors , likely through McCarroll's close attention ...
... authors with newcomers , oriental romances with westerns and detective fiction , and reams of hastily - produced pulp with occasional ( mostly pirated ) works of substance and quality . Through the middle decades of the century the most ...
... authors it carried were an eclectic mix of foreign stars and less known Canadians . Among the novels serialized in 1872 were Charles Kingsley's The Water Babies , M.E. Braddon's To the Bitter End , and Rosanna Leprohon's The Dead ...