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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... mind in 1887 ; whether these involved further popular fiction , or work on the order of " Malcolm's Katie , " or both , can only be matter for speculation . Arguably , her death in mid - career was as great a loss to the young liter ...
... mind , is loved by the two most remarkable women in the novel , displays urbanity and an aesthetic sensibility ( not to mention a mastery of billiards , small talk , and disguise ) , and might even be said to encompass a tragic ...
... mind or body " ( 217 ) , in Uncle Ferdinand's words . The Woman Question and " The Foster - Sisters " Recent critics have pointed out that at the heart of the sensation novel , and the sensation that it caused during the 1860s , is its ...
... mind . Like many Gothic protagonists , she is a shape - shifter . At one point , she dresses in a European lady's costume and at another she assumes the disguise of " a lame Indian boy " ( 222 ) ; moreover , when she arrives with her ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. bring to mind epitomes of beauty such as Dolly Frazer : “ a poetic grace about her graceful head , a nameless exaltation shining like a light on her broad , low brow , from which the ...