Susanna Moodie

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Standard Name: Moodie, Susanna
Birth Name: Susanna Strickland
Married Name: Susanna Moodie
Pseudonym: Z. Z.
SM is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote children's stories, sketches, novels, poetry, and other non-fiction. Her work has proved important for two contemporary Canadian writers, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carol Shields
Judith has abandoned fiction for biography, seriously seeking truth by writing about Susanna Moodie (whose neuroses and weaknesses, she feels, are just enough to make her likeable and interesting). She puzzles about the dividing line...
Textual Features Carol Shields
Again CS chooses a writer as her biographical subject. But whereas Susanna Moodie is assured of her place in the actual history of Canadian writing, and the earlier Judith and Charleen were just achieving self-identity...
Textual Production Mary Prince
The Anti-Slavery Society published The History of Mary Prince , a West Indian Slave. Related by herself, dictated by Prince at her own suggestion to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) .
The title was chosen...
politics Mary Prince
They did this because so long as her owner refused to manumit her, she could not go back to the Caribbean without again becoming subject to his absolute will.
Alexander, Ziggi et al. “Introduction; Supplement; Appendices”. The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, edited by Moira Ferguson, Pandora, pp. 1-41.
85-8, 89-92
The conclusion of MP
Leisure and Society Mary Prince
Nothing is known of her non-working life as a free woman except that she attended the wedding of Susanna Strickland on 4 April 1831.
Textual Features Alice Munro
Most exotic and improbable of all is The Albanian Virgin (based on an actual experience, about 1900, of a librarian from Clinton, Ontario),
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
445
which makes use of the ancient tradition, in a tribal society...
Friends, Associates Mary Russell Mitford
She knew most of the literary women of her day, including Felicia Hemans (who wrote to ask her for an autograph),
L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett.
1: 173-4
Jane Porter , Amelia Opie (that warm-hearted person),
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers.
2: 213
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...
Literary responses Louisa Anne Meredith
This publication, often considered her most significant, positions her as the first permanent Tasmanian woman resident to author a book on the new colony.
Brothers, Barbara, and Julia Gergits, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 166. Gale Research.
166: 261
The Athenæum review noted that the minute, yet not...
Residence Margaret Laurence
Her final home, to which she moved on 1 May 1974, was in Lakefield, Ontario (which as an early settlement had been the home of both Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill ). Here ML
Cultural formation Mary Howitt
During the 1850s, following the death of their schoolboy son Claude, MH and her husband experimented with spiritualism. MH received on one occasion a spirit message from Claude.
Dunicliff, Joy. Mary Howitt: Another Lost Victorian Writer. Excalibur Press of London.
148, 210-11
This was the decade when...
Textual Production Eliza Fenwick
Lissa Paul has established that EF was writing during her time in North America (working on short stories as well as a novel, apart from her constant letter-writing), but none of these texts appears to...
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
After this and a few other poorly selling ventures in privately printed material, SSE followed the advice of a friend and contacted the publisher Thomas Pringle , secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society , who offered...
Textual Features George Eliot
The white neck-cloth species, exemplified by Caroline Scott 's The Old Grey Church, is both upper-class and fervently Evangelical in setting: a kind of genteel tract on a large scale, intended as a sort...
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Atwood
More than twenty years before this MA had treated the same historical figure in an unpublished play, Grace Marks, which was broadcast on CBC television in January 1974 under the title The Servant Girl...

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