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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807109503321

Autore

Moodie Susanna <1803-1885, >

Titolo

Letters of a lifetime / / Susanna Moodie ; edited by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins and Michael Peterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1985

©1985

ISBN

1-282-04540-7

9786612045400

1-4426-8030-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

813/.3

Soggetti

Authors, Canadian - 19th century

Frontier and pioneer life - 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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EDITORIAL PREFACE -- 1826�1832 'The wild Suffolk girl' -- 1833�1851 'Muse on Canadian shores' -- 1852�1862 'My pen as a resource' -- 1863�1869 'The frowns of an untoward fortune' -- 1869�1882 'The soul is always young' -- 1884�1885 Afterword -- 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

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 1985, this volume of letters follows Susanna Moodie from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. The letters provide a sense of Moodie's literary accomplishments before her emigration, the long, uncertain struggle to develop her career as a writer in the colony, and the brief but intense period of literary activity during which her books were



published in Britain and the U.S.