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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... early Canadian literature . It contains fasci- nating depictions of the Ontario hinterland and the rising metropolis of Toronto in the early 1870s . And it adumbrates the singular , if at this point unfledged , talent that Crawford ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. seven children . Further losses followed , as it appears that at least two and perhaps three more of the Crawford offspring died in Paisley and Lakefield ( Farmiloe 4-5 , 12-13 , 34 ) ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. Her exasperation with an unsupportive Canadian literary milieu ... earliest publications . Like so much else about her , the ques- tion of just when she began to publish has been ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. Crawford's arrangement with the Leslie corporation led her to forego book - publishing opportunities . She sold her individual copyrights to Leslie , exchanging the welcome immediacy ...
Isabella Valancy Crawford Len Early, Michael Peterman. reasons for the creation of The Favorite : " first , a desire to furnish a thor- oughly good paper , perfectly moral in its tone and tendencies , to take the place of the trashy ...