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Informationen zum Autor SUSANNA MOODIE was born Susanna Strickland in Bungay, Suffolk, England, in 1803. The sixth and final daughter of a retired dock manager, she grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged the children in reading and in writing. Susanna's juvenilia include poetry and many fiction tales for young adults. In 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, a military officer who had returned to England from South Africa to explore publication projects and to find a wife. A year later, they emigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario). For their first seventeen months in Canada, the Moodies lived on cleared farmland near Port Hope, and later on a bush farm in Douro Township, north of Peterborough. Roughing It in the Bush (1852), describes their life in these two backwoods areas. Susanna Moodie died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1885. Klappentext In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush ! Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls! Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times. Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait! Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles! with wit and wisdom! Canadian society in the mid-19th century. The NCL edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text. Zusammenfassung In the sequel to Roughing It in the Bush ! Susanna Moodie portrays the relatively sophisticated society springing up in the clearings along Lake Ontario. During a trip from Belleville to Niagara Falls! Moodie acts as a meticulous observer of the social customs and practices of the times. Invaluable as social history and as a candid self-portrait! Life in the Clearings versus the Bush chronicles! with wit and wisdom! Canadian society in the mid-19th century. The NCL edition is an unabridged reprint of the complete original text. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Belleville Local Improvements – Sketches of Society Free Schools – Thoughts on Education Amusements Trials of a Travelling Musician The Singing Master Camp Meetings Wearing Mourning for the Dead Odd Characters Grace Marks Michael Macbride Jeanie Burns Lost Children Toronto Lunatic Asylum Provincial Agricultural Show Niagara Goat Island Conclusion Afterword...
