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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... present , however , her earli- est verified publication is a short story , " The Hospital Gondola , " which appeared on 13 April 1872 in The Hearthstone and was followed by two poems and another story , " Windale's Souvenir , " before ...
... present context is how far Crawford's Native heroine conforms to the model of " the inevitable Winona " that Johnson deplored . Just as the stereotype requires , Crawford's protagonist has a merely nominal tribal affiliation , is the ...
... present and of the more sinister motions of the heart in this new country . In Winona's repeated emphasis upon the appearance and activity of the human eye , perhaps no passage is quite so suggestive as this description of the lost son ...
... present ) would be perplexed to find Brampton relocated from Peel County , northwest of Toronto , to the Thousand Islands region at a considerable distance northeast of the city , a problem that Crawford may have apprehended , for this ...
... present text of Winona identify literary , historical , and geographical references and define words that may be unfamiliar to modern readers . In the preparation of these notes , the following sources have been particularly important ...