Backwoods of CanadaMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 15 de jul. de 1997 - 408 páginas Catharine Parr Strickland Traill (1802-1899) emigrated from Great Britain to Upper Canada in 1832 with her husband Thomas Traill, a retired army officer. The Backwoods of Canada (1836), Catharine1s epistolary narrative based on her experiences in the country north of Peterborough in the years immediately following her arrival in North America, is an important record of nineteenth-century pioneering and a rich personal memoir of a woman. It has become a foundation work of Canadian Iiterature. |
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Introduction | 1 |
Authorial Perspectives | 231 |
Explanatory Notes | 239 |
Bibliographical Description of Copytext | 287 |
Lineend Hyphenated Compounds in Copytext | 311 |
Lineend Hyphenated Compounds in CEECT Edition | 315 |
Catharine Parr Traill to James and Emma Bird 7 January 1834 | 317 |
Thomas Traill to James Herriot 19 November 1835 | 321 |
Thomas Traill to Barbara Fotheringhame 27 March 1836 | 322 |
Thomas Traill to Patrick Fotheringhame 1 November 1836 | 327 |
Catharine Parr Traill to Henry Brougham 12 March 1842 | 332 |
Catharine Parr Traill to Henry Brougham 11 January 1843 | 335 |
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