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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... Desbarats's Papers 309 1. [ " The state of Canadian literature " ] , Canadian Illustrated News ( 13 July 1872 ) • 309 2. " Sensation Literature , " The Hearthstone ( 3 August 1872 ) • 311 3. " Artistic Filth , " The Favorite ( 1 ...
... Desbarats " was heard in Judge Adam Wilson's court in Peterborough , Ontario . According to the Peterborough Examiner , the defendant had sponsored a literary contest with the promise that the winning stories would be published in his ...
... Desbarats and published in Montreal . Like most of Crawford's fiction and much of her poetry , Winona has never been reprinted - until now . Like the lawsuit that it precipitated , however , it reveals a good deal about the precarious ...
... Desbarats . It is tantalizing that Arcturus refers only in general terms to " several projects " that she had in mind in 1887 ; whether these involved further popular fiction , or work on the order of " Malcolm's Katie , " or both , can ...
... - mous is the circulation of this journal that , " he promised Lindsay , " you will find your way into every civilized land on the face of the habitable globe . " in the first issue of Desbarats's Favorite ( 28 December 18 INTRODUCTION.