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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... Lake Huron in what was then known as Canada West , setting up practice as a physician . A few years later , in 1861 , he left the area under suspicion of having mishandled funds entrusted to him as township treasurer . By means of a ...
... Lake Chetowaik until long after she so dramatically reappears at the Harty farm- house to tell her tale , may annoy readers more than it excites them . Indeed , the circumstances of Androsia Howard's abduction are never adequately ...
... lake " ( 81 ) . Such weaknesses can be ascribed in part to Crawford's haste and inexperience but they are also indicative of the genre and the particular contest in which she was participating ; ultimately , they prefigure certain ...
... Lake , located north of the town , and those who still carried on their traditional hunting and fishing in the area ... Lakes and no doubt had been assimilated by the middle of the nineteenth century , but these circumstances are nowhere ...
... Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River . Though she can provide dramatic and exotic interest , the Native heroine can find no place in the social drama that the novel develops . Nor , in Winona's case , does she want such a place ...