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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... round the heavy raven tresses laid them on the white quilt beside her foster - sister . Then she lifted one of the sleeping girl's bright curls , and cautiously severing it from her head , thrust it into her bosom . ( 185 ) While Winona ...
... round with thongs of fawn skin " ( 125 ) that he has brought from the far Manitoulin region to the country house on the upper St. Lawrence . Much to the Captain's astonishment , it contains a " worn morocco case " ( 125 ) with a ...
... rounded and moulded to a perfect symmetry " ( 141-42 ) . Such racial and occupational types abound in the novel . These types are offered for consumption rather than questioning , the better to build the national picture in an ...
... round roof & flock of pigeons wheeled in the air , or Captain Arelle Fraser of the 19th Blass look - with a start to face a little man with comical daintily dropped on their roxy feet in search of el disappointed at having his grateful ...
... round with a start , to face a little man with comical blue eyes and a tall gaunt Indian lad of about nineteen , who stood like a bronze statue , while Mr. Murphy introduced himself to the Captain . " Ah , thin , Captain , for it's him ...