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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797240203321

Autore

Traill Catherine Parr Strickland <1802-1899, >

Titolo

I bless you in my heart : selected correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill / / edited by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael A. Peterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

1-4426-5654-9

1-4426-3323-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (456 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

971.3/02/092

Soggetti

Frontier and pioneer life - Ontario

Women pioneers - Ontario

Pioneers - Ontario

Personal correspondence

Electronic books.

Ontario Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [415]-416) index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHRONOLOGY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- I: 1830-1859 'The changes and chances of a settler's life' -- II: 1860-1884 'The poor country mouse' -- III: 1885-1899 'The sight of green things is life to me' -- GENEALOGIES -- SOURCES OF LETTERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Together with introductory essays, Traill's correspondence offers an intimate and revealing portrait of a courageous, caring, and remarkable woman-mother, pioneer, writer, and botanist.