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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... writer , Peterborough , Carole Gerson of Simon Fraser University , Burnaby , B.C. , Robert Thacker of St. Lawrence University , Canton , N.Y. , and the anonymous assessors for Broadview Press , for contributing valuable leads and ...
... writers , and the defendant George - Édouard Desbarats ( 1838-93 ) , a respected Montreal citizen and prominent publisher ( his Canadian Illustrated News had been flourish- ing since October 1869 ) , this episode has remained all but ...
... - Édouard Desbarats's life and career , see Galarneau's DCB article ( though it is noteworthy that Galarneau does not mention The Favorite ) , and Sutherland 46-58 . ous allusions to writers , singers , painters , sculptors ΙΟ INTRODUCTION.
... writers . Crawford's Life and Writing Isabella Valancy Crawford was born in Dublin , Ireland , probably on Christmas day 1850 , into a well - established family of doctors and barris- ters ! Her father , Stephen Dennis Crawford , was ...
... writers such as Alexander McLachlan and James McCarroll . Published in a run of a thousand copies , it sold poorly despite favourable notices by Canadian and British reviewers who saw in it " the mark of genius " ( " Library " ) , " the ...