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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... Canoe , " and " Malcolm's Katie . " It should be said at once that Winona is not a lost masterpiece , although lost it certainly has been for well over a century . Suffused with the clichés of sensational fiction and tailored to the ...
... canoe , paddles out into the lake and drowns herself . " Johnson identifies a lamentable pattern in which Native heroines are “ all fawn eyed , unnatural , unmaidenly idiots " in the face of the indifferent , almost brutal treatment ...
... canoe to the reely bank , to the al- miration of his two companions , a pair of wide shouldered trappers in doskin jerkins and min , pay with porcuplae quilts , for the frall bost hardly rocked as he leaped abore , Guess , Billy ...
... canoe to the reedy bank , to the admiration of his two companions , a pair of wide shouldered trappers in doeskin jerkins and moccasins , gay with porcupine quills , for the frail boat hardly rocked as he leaped ashore . " Guess , Billy ...
... canoe several feet from the shore , rustling through a bed of rice . " I guess I'd best make tracks away from that ere rifle , " he called back , " it's powerful tempting , Cap , but I'm not the mean beggar to take pay for standing up ...