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Known primarily as a poet, Isabella Valancy Crawford's short
stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her
stories, as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In
this collection her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us
glimpses into our literary past.
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The prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively
Canadian fiction, Winona was serialised 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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Collected Poems (Paperback)
Isabella Valancy Crawford; Introduction by James Reaney; Edited by Douglas Lochhead
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