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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... passing twelve years later of her talented contem- porary , Archibald Lampman , at the age of thirty - nine . Literary Peterborough , James McCarroll , and North American Publishing in the 1870s Written when Crawford was twenty - one ...
... passing through the hands of three owners , it has survived only in a badly broken run from its final year when it was under George - Édouard Desbarats's control . A typical story paper in almost every respect , it was published in ...
... passing resem- blance and with a tinge of parody - to that fictional " heroine of old time " whom Sara Jeannette Duncan recalled with gentle ridicule in an article published in the following decade ( see Appendix A ) . Cecil Bertrand ...
... passing that " her religion did not teach her to hope " ( 185 ) ; hence , when she dies , almost willing her own death despite the best efforts of a white doctor at the Frazer estate , she seems inwardly glad to fly to " the hunt- ing ...
... passing if not past " ( 46 ) . As in the introductory chapter of Richardson's Wacousta , the symbolic movement in Winona is not westward , not towards the fron- tier , but eastward . Just as Richardson's description of British North ...