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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... beautiful feet were encased in moccasins brilliant with porcupine quills . Archie returned her grave searching look with a rather prolonged gaze of surprise and admiration , and a slightly amused smile , for her costume impressed him ...
... beautiful objects his had ever beheld . Farmer was not slow to read his hardly defined thoughts , and he set his lips in an iron line hidden partially by his drooping moustache , and his eyes suddenly assumed a curious opacity and ...
... beautiful , shadowy face was a creation . of his own fancy , but he was unwilling to betray his uncertainty to Farmer , and walked forward as the other turned towards him . Farmer looked sharply at him , in a covert way peculiar to him ...
... beautiful view of the now shadowed lake and wide stretching forests . Just aroused from his slumber Colonel Howard sat upon the side of the bed , from which he rose as he caught sight of Archie just within the threshold . He was a tall ...
... " said Archie , in terrible perplexity , " come let me draw you into the canoe , quick . " I My treasure , or darling ( Irish ) . Winona waved her beautiful arm with a gesture of determination WINONA ; OR , THE FOSTER - SISTERS 99.