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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... literary , and aesthetic aspects , as well as the legal ramifications , of Crawford's novel . We are also grate- ful to friends and colleagues elsewhere , including D.M.R. Bentley and James Reaney of the University of Western Ontario ...
... literary contest with the promise that the winning stories would be published in his papers " the Hearthstone and Favorite ... Miss Crawford competed , and after examination was informed by the Editor of the Hearthstone that she had ...
... literary nationalism and the persistent colonial conditions that thwarted such initiatives . It participates in the discourse of womanhood that has been the focus of much recent research on nineteenth - century writing in England and ...
... literary talent as a poet . The intersection of these elements in her stories and poems remains one of their most fasci- nating aspects , and can be seen in the melodramatic plot and stylistic verve of Winona . A necessary question for ...
... literary contacts . Little more than a week before her death , she visited the offices of a recently launched journal ... literary authorities . Her exasperation with an unsupportive Canadian literary milieu links Crawford 14 INTRODUCTION.