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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... young age of twenty - one , leaving only Isabella , her mother , and a brother , Stephen , who had gone to the Algoma territory to seek his livelihood . Thrown increasingly upon their own resources , Mrs. Crawford and Isabella moved to ...
... young 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 ...
... young Isabella . Not only had she won a " national " contest that would see her Canadian novel published by an ambitious new magazine in Montreal , but she was being promoted by The Favorite as one of its lead- ing contributors . While ...
... young and isolated a writer find such favour ? The missing link in the story of Crawford's beginnings as a published writer may well be the influence that James McCarroll ( 1814-92 ) was able to exert on her behalf . Irish - born , with ...
... young , mostly unmar- ried , and cultivated women — the McCarroll sisters , Isabella and Emma Crawford , and another aspiring author , Mary Muchall , Catharine Parr Traill's third daughter , whom Crawford would doubtless have known ...