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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... Period , " Saturday Review 25 ( 14 March 1868 ) • 288 2. " Fast Young Ladies , " Canadian Illustrated News ( 28 September 1872 ) 293 3. Sara Jeannette Duncan , " Saunterings , " The Week ( 28 October 1886 ) • 296 4. E. Pauline Johnson ...
... period of Winona until her death , then , Crawford wrote busily and published steadily , except 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 ...
... periods at which her poems , on the one hand , and stories , on the other , appear in specific newspapers and journals . This fidelity to her publishers - serial monogamy is perhaps a better description was fairly typical of the age ...
... period , and is frequently accompanied by the trope of " buried treasure . " Also noteworthy is the imagery of chivalric romance , which is consistent with the dominant conventions of plot , character , and sentiment in popular fiction ...
... period , as throughout Canadian history , the influx of American publications was a daunting economic threat to the survival of domestic publishing . When The Favorite announced its demise a year and a half later , a final “ Notice ...