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
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