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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... once that Winona is not a lost masterpiece , although lost it certainly has been for well over a century . Suffused with the clichés of sensational fiction and tailored to the tastes of a popular readership , it clearly represents the ...
... Once her own career was launched , Crawford , like many of her contemporaries , wrote prodigiously , encouraged by the opportunities made available by a voracious and competitive periodical market . To date , three of her serialized ...
... once . Rejected stories will be preserved for three months , and the authors may have them returned on forwarding stamps . Send along your manuscript now as soon as you please . This advertisement epitomizes the rhetoric of early ...
... Once she comes to reside with Archie's family , however , her fiery side is tempered by her " new style of dress " ( 188 ) , her rapid progress in the " to her , hidden art of reading " ( 207 ) , and her acquaintance with models of ...
... once celebrated Huron chief " ( 88 ) , speaks Ojibwa , which is an Algonquian , not an Iroquoian , language . The Huron nation had been irrevocably shattered and dispersed fully two hundred years before the period in which Winona is set ...