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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... published in his papers " the Hearthstone and Favorite ... Miss Crawford competed , and after examination was informed by the Editor of the Hearthstone that she had been awarded the first prize of $ 500 for her story entitled ' Winona ...
... published in Montreal . Like most of Crawford's fiction and much of her poetry , Winona has never been reprinted - until now . Like the lawsuit that it precipitated , however , it reveals a good deal about the precarious state of ...
... publish fiction , no doubt moved in part by a desire to supplement the uncertain family income . The Crawford family's fortunes were singularly ill starred . Before their departure from Ireland to Canada , an epidemic had carried off I ...
... published under the title Hugh and Ion ( 1977 ) . Like some of her other later works , this remarkable text shows how far her engagement with social issues had developed in the years following Winona . Crawford's best known work is ...
... publish has been obscured by scanty evidence and reckless conjecture . Lawrence J. Burpee , for instance , claimed that " [ a ] t the age of fourteen she wrote stories for Frank Leslie's Magazine , and soon became a constant contributor ...