Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers: Nineteenth-century Canadian Women WritersLorraine McMullen The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada’s long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties – and rewards – of research into the lives of our foremothers. |
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ResearchProblems and Solutions | 23 |
Anthologies and the Canon of Early Canadian Women Writers | 55 |
The First Generation of Canadian Women Journalists | 77 |
The Atlantic Crossing as a Rubicon for Female Emigrants to Canada? | 91 |
Pioneer Women Autobiographers and their Relation to the Land | 123 |
Susanna Moodie | 137 |
The Record of Catharine Parr Traills Struggles as an Amateur Botanist in NineteenthCentury Canada | 173 |
Reading Sara Jeannette Duncans Challenge to Narrative | 187 |
Afterword | 199 |
Contributors | 201 |
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