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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... - shed 242.17 trap - door 243.27 goose - berry 244.4 love - charms 246.33 244.10 love - charms copper - colored 247.21 anything 249.19 time - honored 254.3 cross - bones 254.32 whip WINONA ; OR , THE FOSTER - SISTERS 75.
... door - way . " Ah , Colonel , I see you are awake at last . May we enter ? " " Oh , by all means , " responded a growling voice from the interior , and Archie with some slight feeling of trepidation found himself in the presence of the ...
... door behind him gave a lovely glimpse of the moonlit lake and the dark , mysterious stretches of woodland tipped and crested with silver . " I don't know , " responded the Colonel , briefly , and turning to Archie he resumed the ...
... door . " A clever ruse , " said the Colonel turning to Archie with a grim and bitter smile , " that man haunts me day and night , and I cannot rid myself of him . Had you stayed for weeks I might not have found an opportunity of ...
... door in time to see the fishing - lights suddenly extinguished . " Something has happened , " he cried and dashed down the hill towards the lake , followed by the trembling steps of the Colonel . [ PART 2-18 JANUARY 1873 ] CHAPTER III ...