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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... Voices from the Forests and Waters , the Settlements and Cities of Canada ( 1889 ) , William Douw Lighthall averred , " there is very little doubt that the neglect her book received was the cause of her death " ( xxvi ) . This view of ...
... voice . The Rev. Edward H. Dewart 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 ...
... , big - pawed and broad - shouldered , Crawford's Mike has " a rich voice , redolent of the Isle of Erin " ( 81 ) and his native Connaught . He is initially positioned as a trustworthy and WINONA ; OR , THE FOSTER - SISTERS 49.
... voice of a merry prophet rather than an angry one , she banishes Miss Cross - patch and Mr. Singlestick from the stage in favour of the " the dimpled Hebes , the gay young bachelors and the blooming matrons of the land " who delight in ...
... Voices from the Forests and Waters , the Settlements and Cities of Canada . Ed . W. D. Lighthall . London : Walter Scott , 1889 . Lindsay , Charles . Papers , MU 1923 , file 5. Archives of Ontario , Toronto , Canada . [ Linton , Eliza ...