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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
.
Connections
| Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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), |
| 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 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... |
| Residence | Catharine Parr Traill | CPT
and her husband
left England for Canada just days before Susanna Moodie
and her husband
also left. They were eager to claim Thomas Traill's military land grant. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 47 New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research. 332 |
| 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 |
| Reception | Catharine Parr Traill | CPT
's writing is generally regarded as the optimistic counterpoint to her sister Susanna Moodie
's gloomy take on Canadian pioneer life. |
| Author summary | Catharine Parr Traill | CPT
, sister of the writers Elizabeth
and Agnes Strickland
and Susanna Moodie
, is best known for her naturalist writing about nineteenth-century Upper Canada. She was a letter-writer widely respected and eventually rewarded for... |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Atwood | |
| 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 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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Strickland |
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