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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... thought highly enough of McCarroll's work to include seven of his poems in his Selections from Canadian Poets ( 1864 ) , ranking him just below Charles Sangster and Alexander McLachlan in terms of number of poems included . McCarroll's ...
... Thought , " a puzzle billed as the " Hearthstone Sphinx , " a few poems , and a plethora of serialized novels , novellas , and short stories . Its front page followed the standard format , leading with a brief poem labeled " For the ...
... thoughts , except rarely by a sudden , curious dull- ness or a horrible flash , like the leaping of a Damascus blade from its scabbard in the light of a conflagration . ( 94 ) Implicitly , not only his Scottish ancestry , but also all ...
... thought the shad- owy hazel orbs , gazing so earnestly into his were the most beautiful objects his had ever beheld . Farmer was not slow to read his hardly defined thoughts , and he set his lips in an iron line hidden partially by his ...
... thought that perhaps you might make me useful in some way , as he could not come himself . " " Pshaw , pshaw , " exclaimed the Colonel brusquely . " What use can I make of a boy ? There ! don't redden , one day you'll be old enough in ...