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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... hand at a variety of occupations , including school and music teaching in the Peterborough - Cobourg area . In the mid - 1840s he owned and edited a reform newspaper in Peterborough , establishing close contacts with people there before ...
... hand is apparent in both papers . As an expatriate " Canadian " now engaged in New York journalism , he was interested in using his edito- rial role to promote Canadian writing and other achievements . Indeed , in what might be seen as ...
... hand , and stories , on the other , appear in specific newspapers and journals . This fidelity to her publishers - serial monogamy is perhaps a better description was fairly typical of the age . Susan Coultrap - McQuin has described the ...
... Hand , a tale of Australian bushranging , and Feudal Times ; or , Two Soldiers of Fortune : A Romance of Daring and Adventure , which , readers were apprised , had been " translated especially for the FAVORITE from the French of Paul ...
... hand , Crawford's plotting is in many respects shrewd and effective . Individual serial installments conclude with heightened suspense or matter for reflection , and almost invariably they comprise a sequence of chapters that achieves ...