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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... Fiction , " Toronto Sunday Globe ( 22 May 1892 ) • 299 Appendix B : Editorials on Literature and Publishing from Desbarats's Papers 309 1. [ " The state of Canadian literature " ] , Canadian Illustrated News ( 13 July 1872 ) • 309 2 ...
... fiction and much of her poetry , Winona has never been reprinted - until now . Like the lawsuit that it precipitated , however , it reveals a good deal about the precarious state of literature in post - Confederation Canada . It ...
... fiction in the 1870s and as an apprentice work by one of Canada's most important early writers . Crawford's Life and Writing Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Dublin , Ireland , probably on Christmas day 1850 , into a well ...
... fiction during these years was , for the most part , a means of earning her bread and butter . In this respect , straitened circumstances affected the pattern of her writing from the beginning until the end of her career . From at least ...
... fiction , or work on the order of " Malcolm's Katie , " or both , can only be matter for speculation . Arguably , her death in mid - career was as great a loss to the young liter- ature of Canada as the passing twelve years later of her ...