Sisters In The Wilderness: The Lives Of Susanna Moodie And Catharine Parr Traill
A Cultural, Biography, Nonfiction book. This is the tale of two sisters from my part of the world, Suffolk in England,...
In the inhospitable and hardscrabble bush of Canada, facing a pioneering existence that they never even knew existed, the well-educated, but modestly married, British born Strickland sisters, Susanna and Catharine, turned to the pen to ease their loneliness and isolation. Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush warned her countrymen from taking the bait and emigrating to Canada;...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 400 pages
- ISBN: 9780140276749 / 140276742
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This is the tale of two sisters from my part of the world, Suffolk in England, Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, who travelled to the remote Canadian backwoods and lived a backbreaking life there - yet both became famous authors by writing about their experiences. I found this a fascinating and very readable account, good to... This book describes the lives of two sisters born into Jane Austen's world of gentility who marry feckless men who take them to the Canadian frontier where they are unable to succeed because their upper middle class upbringings have unsuited them to the challenges of pioneering. The sisters both wrote books that are now honored as accounts... Quite a compelling read. I found it impossible not to be filled with admiration for these two sisters' (Catherine Parr Trail and Susanna Moodie) endurance and strength. The English sisters (most especially Agnes) appeared equally formidable but in entirely different ways-- rigid maintainers and enforcers of a class system rather than...
