Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts) - Softcover

Moodie, Susanna; Ballstadt, Carl

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9780886290450: Roughing it in the Bush or Life in Canada (Centre for Editing Early Canadian Texts)

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ISBN 10: 0886290457 ISBN 13: 9780886290450

Publisher: Carleton University Press,Canada, 1988

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Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to terms with their new environment.

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Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) is the Canadian pioneer and critically acclaimed author of Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Bush Versus the Clearings, frank portrayals of life as a settler in 19th century Canada. She was the younger sister of writers Agnes Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill, who also wrote about her experience as a Canadian settler in The Backwoods of Canada. Before immigrating to Canada Susanna Moodie was a successful author of such children s books as The Little Quaker and The Sailor Brother, and was an active abolitionist. Moodie s works continue to influence contemporary writers like Margaret Atwood, and her contribution to Canadian literature was commemorated on a Canadian postage stamp in 2003.

Carl Ballstadt is a member of the Department of English at McMaster University.

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