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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... things turned out , however , the aggrieved author would see little of this " full amount , " for her defaulting publisher had overextended his enterprises during the early 1870s and was sinking towards the low point of an otherwise ...
... choosing Winona as a winner , The Hearthstone ran an editorial deploring the influ- ence of " Sensation Literature " on contemporary taste and morals . Among other things , this editorial pointed out , " 30 INTRODUCTION.
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. Among other things , this editorial pointed out , " it was not until serial stories came into fashion , and the cheap weeklies began to make their appearance , that the sensation ...
... thing " ( 169 ) and " Miss Black - a - moor " ( 279 ) in her lexicon of spite - not only has a complexion of “ lucid pearl and rose " ( 142 ) , but also , ultimately , is remembered in a funeral that is a veritable ( and ironic ) riot ...
... things , the contradictions in Crawford's representation of Winona inscribe precisely that ambivalence about " the ' improper ' feminine " that Pykett identifies as the hallmark of women's sensation novels of the 1860s . Wynne makes a ...