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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... 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 as shadowy and " phantom - like ...
... fire - lit vision of the terrible - eyed woman stand- ing on Joe Harty's hearth , with the reeking scalp clutched in her extended hand . ( 176 ) In contrast to Longfellow's one - dimensional " Indian maiden , " Crawford's heroine ...
... fire - eyed , " " crouching , " and " submissive . " She came from no identifiable tribe and before the white hero , whose superiority is a given in the scheme of things , she had to grovel even as he ( usually ) ignored her genuine ...
... fire his revolver a second time ? Even more disconcerting in the original text are numerous instabil- ities in the names of places and characters . From Chapters XVI through XIX , the railway stop in the vicinity of the Frazer estate on ...
... fire in a dusky face , shrouded by a pall of raven hair , met his , peering at him from the upper gloom . There was something so weird and unearthly in their piercing gaze that involuntarily he paused , but even as he did so the dimly ...