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Elizabeth Thompson develops the idea of the pioneer woman as an archetypal character firmly entrenched in Canadian fiction and the Canadian consciousness. Thompson's broad definition of the concept of pioneer can be seen to reflect the history of Canadian women, starting with the pioneers of settlement and continuing through the pioneers of spiritual perfection and psychological liberation. Various versions of the pioneer woman have appeared in English-Canadian fiction since Traill's development of the character type. Sara Jeannette Duncan's The Imperialist and Ralph Connor's The Man From Glengarry and Glengarry School Days feature pioneer women who cope not only with physical frontiers but also with those grounded in social and personal concerns. More recently, Margaret Laurence used this character type in The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Diviners, with characters who inhabit internal, personal frontiers. Thompson argues that the longevity of this character type in English-Canadian fiction reveals an affinity between the pioneer woman and a common conception of the role of women in Canadian society. She suggests that the role for women proposed by the early immigrants was an appropriate choice for the Canadian frontier, regardless of the location and nature of that frontier.

Women pioneers in literature. --- Canadian fiction --- Women and literature --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- History and criticism.

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This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women’s fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woman of the World, 1983). These three texts reveal definite problems in the formation of Canadian female identities, but they also revalorise the traditionally underprivileged halves of binary structures such as: female/male, other/self, body/intellect, subjectivity/objectivity, and Canada/imperial centres.

Pioniersvrouwen in de literatuur --- Pionnières dans la littérature --- Women pioneers in literature --- 820 "19" --- 820 <71> --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Canadian fiction --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature. --- Women and literature --- Women pioneers in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- Frontier and pioneer life in literature --- History and criticism --- Marlatt, Daphne. --- Shields, Carol. --- Swan, Susan, --- Canadian fiction [English ] --- 20th century --- Women authors --- Women pioneers --- Canada --- Feminist literature --- Shields, Carol --- Marlatt, Daphne. Ana Historic --- Swan, Susan. The Biggest Modern Woman of the World --- Canadian fiction (English) --- Canadian-English novel --- Canadian literature --- English-Canadian fiction --- English fiction --- Femmes écrivains canadiennes de langue anglaise --- IDENTITE FEMININE --- IDENTITE --- Identité (psychologie) --- POSTMODERNISME (LITTERATURE) --- Postcolonialisme --- CANADA --- Dans la littérature