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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... close contacts with people there before find- ing steady work as a civil servant for the Customs Department in 1849 . A poet , story writer , humorist , journalist , musician , performer , and drama critic , he placed his writing in ...
... close attention to her interests . For his part , McCarroll seems to have main- tained a connection to the Leslie operations until about 1880 . The limited evidence available suggests that the conditions of I For Stowe , see Hildreth ...
... course of The Favorite's eighteen - month existence . Desbarats operated his papers with a close eye to copyright obligations and tried , within his budgetary limits , to purchase Canadian serial rights WINONA ; OR , THE FOSTER - SISTERS ...
... close analysis , at the end of the nine- teenth chapter ( and seventh serial installment ) , he arrives at a crisis in his designs against the Frazers and Androsia Howard . Having spent the afternoon half charmed by the affectionate ...
... close to my heart . " The question that obviously arises in the present context is how far Crawford's Native heroine conforms to the model of " the inevitable Winona " that Johnson deplored . Just as the stereotype requires , Crawford's ...