Winona; or, The Foster-SistersBroadview Press, 16. okt 2006 - 334 pages 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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... heads this list , which also includes Emma N. Crawford , Susanna Moodie , and Mary Muchall . Indeed , this initial issue of The Favorite featured Isabella's seasonal story " The Silvers ' Christmas Eve " on its front page and also ...
... head , thrust it into her bosom . ( 185 ) While Winona says that she performs this ritual to provide a memento for Androsia , it also contributes to the disguise that she is about to assume , and in a narrative that repeatedly furnishes ...
... head , a nameless exaltation shining like a light on her broad , low brow , from which the golden hair rippled back in large soft waves , and , caught in a silky mass behind , fell in great loose curls on her lovely shoulders " ( 130 ) ...
... head out west , like so many men of the time , to try out the newly opened territory of Manitoba . A " dapper and dandified " ( 110 ) bachelor of fifty , he is small , spare , flexible , playful , and benignly flirtatious . Inseparable ...