Susanna Moodie

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush, Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls, Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times. Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles, with wit and wisdom, Canadian society in the mid-19th century. The NCL edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780771093715
• Artikelnr.: 38439276

Autorenporträt

SUSANNA MOODIE was born Susanna Strickland in Bungay, Suffolk, England, in 1803. The sixth and final daughter of a retired dock manager, she grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged the children in reading and in writing. Susanna's juvenilia include poetry and many fiction tales for young adults. In 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, a military officer who had returned to England from South Africa to explore publication projects and to find a wife. A year later, they emigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario). For their first seventeen months in Canada, the Moodies lived on cleared farmland near Port Hope, and later on a bush farm in Douro Township, north of Peterborough. Roughing It in the Bush (1852), describes their life in these two backwoods areas. Susanna Moodie died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1885.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
Belleville
Local Improvements – Sketches of Society
Free Schools – Thoughts on Education
Amusements
Trials of a Travelling Musician
The Singing Master
Camp Meetings
Wearing Mourning for the Dead
Odd Characters
Grace Marks
Michael Macbride
Jeanie Burns
Lost Children
Toronto
Lunatic Asylum
Provincial Agricultural Show
Niagara
Goat Island
Conclusion
 
Afterword