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 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...
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...
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...
Travel Catharine Parr Traill
To help her recover, a cousin named Rebecca Leverton took Catharine to Bath, Oxford, and Herefordshire. They returned to Reydon Hall upon news of her sister Susanna's plans for emigration.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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