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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... figure " written of in novels " ( 210 ) , while at the opening of Chapter XVII she archly alludes to the sensation genre itself in Ensign Spooner's fascination with reports of violent domestic crime . The amusement with which she ...
... figures , is his nemesis , Jack Fennel , the mild- mannered Toronto detective whom Archie Frazer employs to track down the missing Winona , and who is in all probability one of the first detectives in Canadian fiction . In a pioneering ...
... figures such as Sal Harty , Grace Fennel , and Rosie , the Irish parlor - maid . Each is characterized with some particu- larity , and , collectively , they imply a view , at this early stage in Crawford's career , of the situation and ...
... figure of the heartless coquette , she has some of the novel's best lines , and certainly she has the most spectacular rendezvous with destiny . She also embodies types that had achieved currency in the Victorian discourse of womanhood ...
... figure in the novel's representation of womanhood , and her relationship with Androsia Howard is at the centre of its ideological tensions . According to Lyn Pykett , sensation novels written by women in England during the 1860s ...