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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... called Publicans and Sinners , which was serialized simultaneously with its publication in three volumes in England . During the paper's final six months , long after Crawford's work had ceased to appear in its columns , its pages were ...
... called " woman question ” —the controversy over women's nature and place in society that exercised writers and the reading public in England and North America through most of the century . This debate had accel- erated in the decade ...
... called Winona , who jumped to her death from the Niagara Escarpment in 1812 " ( 378 ) . For adaptations of this story by two nineteenth- century Canadian poets , with the heroine renamed Ta - poo - ka and transferred to the Huron nation ...
... called a frontier idiom using words like " varmint , " rustling , " " wrathy , " " down - right ” “ darndest , " and phrases like " tarnal galoot , " " a sight of bad work " ( 108 ) , and " that ere rifle " ( 80 ) in his few ...