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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... perhaps three more of the Crawford offspring died in Paisley and Lakefield ( Farmiloe 4-5 , 12-13 , 34 ) . In July 1875 , in Peterborough , Dr. Crawford himself succumbed to a heart attack at the age of sixty - seven , and less than six ...
... perhaps for an interval of some 20 months in 1877 and 1878 during which only two or three short poems are known to have appeared in print . This output indi- cates both dogged industry and imaginative fertility , but it was by no I The ...
... perhaps a better description was fairly typical of the age . Susan Coultrap - McQuin has described the relationship between nineteenth - century American women writers and their publishers in terms of the ethos of " the Gentleman ...
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... perhaps of Crawford's own recipe for " humble " but healthful domestic life . Music there looms very large , " [ t ] he true panacea for most ills of mind or body " ( 217 ) , in Uncle Ferdinand's words . The Woman Question and " The ...