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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... shadow of reproach with the most bewitching air of innocence , and supremely blest in never sinning against the ' proprieties ' ungracefully ” ( 142 ) . Like Linton's " G.O.P. , " she is fundamentally mercenary in her relations with men ...
... shadows , in the final pages of the novel . In this regard it may be more than a coinci- dence that both the subtitle and the paired white and Native heroines of Winona have a precedent in E.D.E.N. Southworth's novel of the American ...
... shadow of a group of graceful willows bending from the bank on which Captain Frazer had landed , and the rice bed waved softly in the light breeze , There was a kind of cathedral quiet , mingled with a vernal cheerfulness reigning over ...
... shadow of a group of graceful willows bending from the bank on which Captain Frazer had landed , and the rice bed ... shadows were stealing out on the amber waters , deepening them near the shore to bronze , gradually merging into gold ...
... shadow before them , and nodding towards him Mr. Murphy wagged his red head with expressive pantomime , as if he would say , " be cautious , " and then went on : " Och , murther , but it's a quare life to lade , isn't it , now , shut up ...