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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... woman who , at the age of twenty- two , had taken her publisher to court to put her case before a magis- trate and jury was , at this point in her career , seasoned by setbacks and misfortune . She continued , almost until the end , to ...
... Woman , " which are mentioned in prefatory notes to poems by Crawford published in the Toronto Evening Telegram in the early 1880s ( " Verses , " " At the Opera - A Fragment , " " He Arose and Went into Another Land " ) . Both ...
... Woman in White ( 1860 ) is usually credited with inaugurating the vogue , which flourished for the better part of the decade and left its mark on writers as diverse as Charles Dickens , Anthony Trollope , and Thomas Hardy . As Deborah ...
... Woman Question and " The Foster - Sisters " Recent critics have pointed out that at the heart of the sensation novel , and the sensation that it caused during the 1860s , is its bearing on the so - called " woman question ” —the ...
... woman stand- ing on Joe Harty's hearth , with the reeking scalp clutched in her extended hand . ( 176 ) In contrast to Longfellow's one - dimensional " Indian maiden , " Crawford's heroine combines both the erotic allure and the ...