Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush - Softcover

Shields, Carol; Crowe, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772600032 ISBN 13: 9781772600032

Publisher: Second Story Press, 2016

Synopsis

A subject of fascination for writers like Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley, Susanna Moodie was a Romantic writer from a celebrated literary family whose life changed forever when she and her husband embarked from England for the backwoods of Canada in 1832. Misled by land merchants, the Moodies discovered that settlement in Upper Canada was far from pastoral but rather a wild frontier. Utterly unprepared for pioneer life, they soon found themselves starving in a hostile wilderness. With her husband absent in the army during the 1837 Rebellions, Susanna began publishing her writing to feed and clothe her growing family. The result was the book Roughing It in the Bush--Moodie's aggravated and acerbic testament of pioneer life was praised in England but turned her into a controversial figure. Two centuries later she is now honored as an early feminist and literary pioneer.

Susanna Moodie: Roughing It in the Bush brings the words of this controversial yet fascinating woman to life through the insightful writing of Carol Shields.

About this title

About the Author:

Carol Shields was an American-born Canadian author. Her 1993 novel, The Stone Diaries, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and the Governor General's Award in Canada, among others. Her next book, Larry's Party, won the Orange Prize and Le Prix de Lire. Her last novel, Unless, was published in 2002, before Carol's death in July 2003. Shields wrote her master's thesis on Susanna Moodie, and it was her first published work.

From the Inside Flap:

graphic novel, Canadian history, pioneers, writing, adversity, 1837 Rebellions, Susanna Moodie

About this edition

• Publisher: Second Story Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1772600032
• ISBN 13: 9781772600032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 152
• Illustrator: Goulding Selena