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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Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. Acknowledgements. We wish to express our gratitude to the Social ... Crawford's novel. We are also grateful to friends and colleagues elsewhere, including D.M.R. Bentley and James ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. Introduction On 27 October 1873, the suit of “Crawford vs. Desbarats” was heard in Judge Adam Wilson's court in Peterborough, Ontario. According to the Peterborough Examiner, the ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. in fact, a full-length novel and likely one of Crawford's earliest publi- cations. Winona; or,The Foster-Sisters appeared serially in twelve installments from 11 January to 29 March ...
... 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- ters1 Her father, Stephen Dennis Crawford, was, however, one of its ...
... Crawford offspring died in Paisley and Lakefield (Farmiloe 4-5, 12-13, 34). In July 1875, in Peterborough, Dr. Crawford himself succumbed to a heart attack at the age of sixty-seven, and less than six months later, Emma died of ...
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A Brief Chronology | 62 |
A Note on the Text | 65 |
Editorial Emendations | 69 |
Lineend Hyphenated Compounds in the Original Text | 74 |
WINONA OR THE FOSTERSISTERS | 77 |
The Discourse of Womanhood | 287 |
Editorials on Literature and Publishing from Desbaratss Papers | 309 |
Prospectus for The Favorite | 316 |
Reports of the 1873 Autumn Assizes Peterborough Ontario | 320 |
Illustrations | 322 |
Select Bibliography | 328 |