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
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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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 | Carol Shields | CS
published a critical study based on her MA thesis, Susanna Moodie
: Voice and Vision. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Education | Carol Shields | Later she took advantage of her position as a faculty wife to enroll for a course in writing for magazines (at her husband's suggestion) at the University of Toronto
—which changed the direction of her... |
| Textual Production | Carol Shields | She took up poetry by a strangely roundabout route. Having noticed that in novels she read the female characters were hopelessly unlifelike, she was forcibly struck by an honest portrayal of a woman produced by... |
| Textual Production | Carol Shields | CS
was left after her MA degree with surplus material on Susanna Moodie
which she had not been able to use in her thesis because it was too speculative. She found a home for it... |
| Textual Production | Carol Shields | She set out to portray a woman who had (and needed) good friends, to illuminate those aspects of Moodie
which Moodie herself had kept hidden, and to build on her own sense of connectedness to... |
| Textual Production | Agnes Strickland | AS
published the pamphlet Patriotic Songs with her younger sister Susanna
(later Susanna Moodie). Moodie, Susanna et al. Patriotic Songs, 1830. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/moodie-traill/027013-5007-e.html. prelims Peterman, Michael. Patriotic Songs by Agnes Strickland and Susanna Strickland. No. 4, National Library of Canada. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Strickland | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Elizabeth Strickland | |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Strickland | Two years later ES
collaborated with another sister, Susanna
, in another book for children: The Little Prisoner; or, Passion and Patience; and, Amendment; or, Charles Grant and his Sister. Again each author is... |
| 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 |
| Textual Production | Catharine Parr Traill | Catharine Strickland, later CPT
, anonymously published another tale for children entitled Little Downy; or The History of a Field Mouse: A Moral Tale, with twelve colour engravings; it achieved some popularity. The British... |
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