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Roughing It in the Bush

Contents

  • Introduction
  • List of Illustrations
  • Facsimile title page of the first edition
  • Choice of Text and Editing Strategy
  • The Text of Roughing It in the Bush
  • Backgrounds
  • Illustrations
  • Advertisement for the First Edition
  • C.F.B. • Preface to Roughing It in the Bush
  • Susanna Moodie • Introduction to the 1871 Edition
  • Canadian Sketches
  • Mrs. Moodie • Old Woodruff and His Three Wives: A Canadian Sketch
  • Jeanie Burns
  • Lost Children
  • Susanna Moodie to John Moodie, January 11, 1839
  • Susanna Moodie to John Mooodie, February 14, 1839
  • Susanna Moodie to John Moodie, March 6, 1839
  • Susanna Moodie to John Moodie, March 20, 1839
  • Susanna Moodie to John Moodie, July 16, 1839
  • Catharine Parr Traill • A Light Sketch of the Early Life of Mrs. Moodie
  • [Frederick Hardmann] • From Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  • Anonymous • From The Literary World
  • [Charles Lindsay] • From the Toronto Examiner
  • [Anonymous] • From The Provincial: or Halifax Monthly Magazine
  • [Anonymous] • From The Canadian Monthly and National Review
  • Criticism
  • Margaret Atwood • Afterword to The Journals of Susanna Moodie
  • Carl Ballstadt • Susanna Moodie and the English Sketch
  • David Stouck • “Secrets of the Prison-House”: Mrs. Moodie and the Canadian Imagination
  • John Thurston • Rewriting Roughing It
  • D.M.R. Bentley • Breaking the “Cake of Custom”: The Atlantic Crossing as a Rubicon for Female Emigrants to Canada?
  • Bina Freiwald • “The tongue of woman”: The Language of the Self in Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush
  • Susan Glickman • The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie’s “Enthusiasm”
  • Michael Peterman • Roughing It in Michigan and Upper Canada: Caroline Kirkland and Susanna Moodie
  • Carole Gerson • Nobler Savages: Representations of Native Women in the Writings of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill
  • Michael Peterman • Reconstrucing the Palladium of British America: How the Rebellion of 1837 and Charles Fothergill Helped to Establish Susanna Moodie as a Writer in Canada
  • Misao Dean • The Broken Mirror of Domestic Ideology: Femininity as Textual Practise in Susanna Moodie’s Autobiographical Works
  • Helen M. Buss • Two Exemplary Early Texts: Moodie’s Roughing It and Jameson’s Studies and Rambles
  • Susanna Strickland Moodie: A Chronology
  • Selected Bibliography