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
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
MA published The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a sequence of poems in which she assumes the sometimes strong, sometimes querulous voice of Moodie, an English-born pioneer Canadian writer.
Book Review Index. Gale Research.
1: 225
British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons.
1973
Intertextuality and Influence Margaret Atwood
Several of these poems, like Death of a Young Son by Drowning, treat actual incidents of Moodie's life while transforming the plaintive tone adopted in Moodie's own narratives into one of tragedy. Atwood's handling...
Textual Production Margaret Atwood
An abortive 1970s fundraising project (apparently for the Writers' Union of Canada ) had a number of writers planning to collaborate on a pornographic fiction, which would be written in hilarity and make a large...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Atwood
Subjects include English women writers Virginia Woolf , Antonia Fraser , Marina Warner , and Hilary Mantel , Americans Toni Morrison and Ursula Le Guin, as well as the reluctant Canadian Susanna Moodie and...

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