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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... dark eyes , burning like stars of fire " ( 88 ) . She sustains this intensity of gaze throughout the narrative , suggesting an agency and power beyond the pale of proper female conduct and expression . She is also repeatedly described ...
... darkness " for both of them , and leaves behind a sign of that darkness . At the same time , in taking one of Androsia's " bright curls " as a remembrance for herself , she bears away with her a residual trace of Androsia's more ...
... Dark Stag " ( 1883 ) . Taking their cue from the 1927 biographical sketch by " Antrim , " several commentators have claimed that during her early years growing up in Paisley , Crawford came to know the Ojibwa bands living in that area ...
... dark resolve , and deep passions . In Farmer's authoritative words , she is " certainly the loveliest Indian woman in this part of America , and certainly the most utterly untamable " ( 88 ) . In terms of emotion , physical power , and ...
... Dark Stag . " Evening Telegram [ Toronto ] , 28 November 1883 : 2 . " Erin's Warning . " Evening Telegram [ Toronto ] , 7 March 1881 : 4 . " Erin to Her Grandson , Ned Hanlan . " Evening Telegram [ Toronto ] , 25 June 1879 : 3 . Hate ...