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John Thurston considers the whole of Moodie's literary output, including her poems, short fiction, novels, and non-fiction, beginning with her youthful writing in England and culminating in an extensive analysis of her best-known work, Roughing It in the Bush. He establishes the biographical foundations of her writing, using recently discovered correspondence, and describes the historical issues and events that shaped her life and writing. Through current historicist and feminist literary criticism, Thurston achieves new insights into Moodie's writing. Locating tensions of class, gender, and race within her work, he places Moodie in both the established tradition of nineteenth-century British women writers and the less-familiar tradition of North American class conflict.
Canadian literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- Moodie, Susanna, --- Moodie, Susannah Strickland, --- Moodie, --- Strickland, Susannah, --- Strickland, S. --- S. M., --- Strickland, Susanna, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Moodie, Suzanna --- Criticism and interpretation
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Quince Duncan is a comprehensive study of the published short stories and novels of Costa Rica's first novelist of African descent and one of the nation's most esteemed contemporary writers. The grandson of Jamaican and Barbadian immigrants to Limón, Quince Duncan (b. 1940) incorporates personal memories into stories about first generation Afro-West Indian immigrants and their descendants in Costa Rica. Duncan's novels, short stories, recompilations of oral literature, and essays intimately convey the challenges of Afro-West Indian contract laborers and the st
Costa Rican literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Duncan, Quince, --- Duncan Moodie, Quince, --- Moodie, Quince Duncan, --- Criticism and interpretation.
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Probably Canada's best known settlement story, this autobiographical account of frontier conditions in the 1830s is a compelling narrative that emphasizes both the tragedies and the triumphs of a sensible and sensitive woman and her family as they come to
Canada --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Pioneers --- Women pioneers --- Moodie, Susanna, --- Ontario --- Description and travel.
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First published in 1985, this volume of letters follows Susanna Moodie from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. The letters provide a sense of Moodie's literary accomplishments before her emigration, the long, uncertain struggle to develop her career as a writer in the colony, and the brief but intense period of literary activity during which her books were published in Britain and the U.S.
Authors, Canadian --- Frontier and pioneer life --- Canadian authors --- Moodie, Susanna, --- Moodie, Susannah Strickland, --- Moodie, --- Strickland, Susannah, --- Strickland, S. --- S. M., --- Strickland, Susanna, --- Ontario --- Canada West --- Антарыа --- Antarya --- Онтарио --- Οντάριο --- אונטריו --- Onṭaryo --- Ontarijas --- オンタリオ州 --- Ontario-shū --- オンタリオ --- Ontariu --- Онтаріо --- אנטעריא --- Onṭeryo --- Ontarėjė --- 安大略省 --- Andalüe Sheng --- 安大略 --- Andalüe --- Upper Canada --- Social life and customs.
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Women in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- Social status in literature. --- Negroes in literature --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Duncan, Quince, --- Duncan Moodie, Quince, --- Moodie, Quince Duncan, --- Characters --- Women. --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature.
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Costa Rican literature --- Blacks in literature. --- Negroes in literature --- Black authors --- History and criticism. --- Bernard, Eulalia --- Duncan, Quince, --- Campbell Barr, Shirley, --- Mc Donald Woolery, Delia --- Barr, Shirley Campbell, --- Campbell, Shirley, --- Duncan Moodie, Quince, --- Moodie, Quince Duncan, --- Bernard L., Eulalia --- Bernard Little, Eulalia --- Little, Eulalia Bernard --- McDonald Woolery, Delia --- Woolery, Delia Mc Donald --- Woolery, Dlia Mc Donald --- Mc Donald Woolery, Dlia --- McDonald Woolery, Dlia --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Woolery, Delia Macdonald, --- Mc Donald Woolery, Delia, --- Woolery, Delia Mc Donald, --- Woolery, Dlia Mc Donald, --- Mc Donald Woolery, Dlia, --- McDonald Woolery, Dlia, --- Macdonald Woolery, Delia, --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature.
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