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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... married , the other two were single women who , having inherited their father's musical passion , made their livings as local music teachers . Though hard evidence of their connection with Crawford is lacking , it is possible to ...
... married to the attractive Gracie , and keenly musical in his tastes . With respect to class , he is positioned between the well - bred Frazers and characters of lower or servant caste such as Mike Murphy . As an urban professional , he ...
... marry them . Many readers , however , will probably find Cecil , like most antagonists , the livelier and more ... marriage ; the only idea worth entertaining " ( 340 ) . Cecil is , of course , also ultra - feminine in costume ...
... married to Archie Frazer at the novel's end . More than any other major character , Androsia appears to function as an allegorical " counter " rather than an individual ; indeed , she repre- sents precisely what is at stake in the ...
... marriage . " Andro " connotes a masculine element that makes her , at first , more akin to her foster - sister , but it is an element that is ultimately subsumed in the " ambrosia ” that she comes to signify to an adoring husband . By ...