Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Susanna Moodie
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Standard Name: Moodie, Susanna
Birth Name: Susanna Strickland
Married Name: Susanna Moodie
Pseudonym: Z. Z.
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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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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...
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...
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.