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.
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
.
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
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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...
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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...
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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),
Thacker, Robert. Alice Munro. McClelland and Stewart.
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which makes use of the ancient tradition, in a tribal society...
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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.
1973
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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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...
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Eliza Fenwick
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...
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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.
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...
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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...
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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)
.