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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 descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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”. Bulletin, July/August 2002, Vol. 34 , No. 4, National Library of Canada. |
| Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | MA
published The Journals of Susanna Moodie, a sequence of poems in which she assumes the sometimes strong, sometimes querulous voice of Moodie, an English-born pioneer Canadian writer. Book Review Index. Gale Research. 1: 225 British Books in Print. J. Whitaker and Sons, 1874–1987. 1973 |
| Textual Production | Margaret Atwood | An abortive 1970s fundraising project (apparently for the Writers' Union of Canada
) had a number of writers planning to collaborate on a pornographic fiction, which would be written in hilarity and make a large... |
| 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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| 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 | Sarah Stickney Ellis | After this and a few other poorly selling ventures in privately printed material, SSE
followed the advice of a friend and contacted the publisher Thomas Pringle
, secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society
, who offered... |
| 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... |
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