Research Catalog

Title

Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada / by Susanna Moodie ; edited by Elizabeth Thompson.

Author

Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885

Publication

Ottawa : Tecumseh Press, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Thompson, Elizabeth Helen, 1952-

Description

xxvii, 534 p. : port.; 23 cm.

Summary

"In 1832, Susanna Moodie, her husband, and her daughter immigrated to Canada from England in search of financial independence. In Roughing It in the Bush, Moodie recounts the seven and a half years the family spent pioneering in the unsettled Canadian backwoods. The text reprinted in this Norton Critical Edition is the second English edition, of July 1852, chosen because it corrects errors in the first edition and adds selected material by Moodie that was not included in the first edition."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Canadian critical editions ; 3

Uniform Title

Canadian critical editions ; 3.

Alternative Title

Life in Canada

Subject

• Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885
• Frontier and pioneer life > Ontario
• Vie des pionniers > Ontario
• Pioneers > Ontario > Biography
• Women pioneers > Ontario > Biography
• Ontario > Description and travel
• Ontario > Descriptions et voyages

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• "A critical edition".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. [524]-534.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. A Visit to Grosse Isle -- 2. Quebec -- 3. Our Journey Up the Country -- 4. Tom Wilson's Emigration -- 5. Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System -- 6. Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose -- 7. Uncle Joe and His Family -- 8. John Monaghan -- 9. Phoebe H., and Our Second Moving -- 10. Brian, The Still Hunter -- 11. The Charivari -- 12. The Village Hotel -- 13. The Land-Jobber -- 14. A Journey to the Woods -- 15. The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends -- 16. Burning the Fallow -- 17. Our Logging-Bee -- 18. A Trip to Stony Lake -- 19. The "Ould Dhragoon" -- 20. Disappointed Hopes -- 21. The Little Stumpy Man -- 22. The Fire -- 23. The Outbreak -- 24. The Whirlwind -- 25. The Walk to Dummer -- 26. A Change in Our Prospects -- 27. Adieu to the Woods -- Canadian Sketches -- Backgrounds -- Biography: A Slight Sketch of the Early Life of Mrs. Moodie / Catharine P. Traill -- Documentary: From "Rachel Wilde" ; From "Trifles from the Burthen of a Life" ; From Flora Lyndsay ; Jeanie Burns / Susanna Moodie -- Reviews: Edinburg Magazine, Forest Life in Canada West ; Examiner, Misrepresentation -- Criticism: Preface to Roughing It in the Bush / Charles Frederick Briggs ; Susanna Moodie / Thomas G. Marquis ; Grandmothers of Canadian Literature / Blanche Hume ; Roughing It with the Moodies / Edward McCourt ; Introduction to Roughing It In the Bush / Carl Klinck ; Afterword to the Journal of Susanna Moodie: Disembarking at Quebec ; The Double Voice / Margaret Atwood ; Susanna Moodie and the English Sketch / Carl Ballstadt ; "Secrets of the Prison House": Mrs. Moodie and the Canadian Imagination / David Stouck ; Mrs. Moodie and Sexual Reversal / Carol Shields ; Roughing It In the Bush: A Sentimental Novel / Marian Fowler ; Roughing It in the Bush as Autobiography / Michael Peterman ; Trees and Forest: Variety and Unity in Early Canadian Writing / D.M.R. Bentley.

ISBN

• 1896133428 (bound)
• 1896133444 (pbk.)

LCCN

cn^97900860^

OCLC

• 37492668
• SCSB-12801735

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library