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
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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. |
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... |
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 | 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... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Catharine Parr Traill | Her sisters included the writers Agnes Strickland
, Elizabeth Strickland
, and Susanna Moodie
. She shared a particularly close bond with Susanna, her fellow emigrant. Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking. 5, 212 |
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. 43 |
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