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- Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880
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- 1993
- Published by: University of Ottawa Press
- Series: Canadian Short Story Library
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Pioneering Women is an anthology of short fiction written before 1880 by Canadian women, including Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, and Rosanna Mullins Leprohon. From the Maritimes to Upper Canada, from backwoods to the drawing room, this collection demonstrates the variety that exists in stories by women of early British North America.
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- Eliza Lanesford Cushing
- pp. 15-17
- Catharine Parr Traill
- pp. 39-41
- "The Bereavement" (1846)
- pp. 42-50
- Susanna Moodie
- pp. 51-54
- "The Walk to Dummer" (1847)
- pp. 55-75
- Mary Anne Sadlier
- pp. 77-80
- Harriet Vaughan Cheney
- pp. 89-91
- "The Emigrants" (1850)
- pp. 92-107
- May Agnes Fleming
- pp. 109-112
- "The Philopena" (1860)
- pp. 113-122
- "My Folly" (1863)
- pp. 123-138
- Mary Eliza Herbert
- pp. 139-141
- Rosanna Mullins Leprohon
- pp. 151-154
- "Alice Sydenham's First Ball" (1849)
- pp. 155-188
- "My Visit to Fairview Villa" (1870)
- pp. 189-215
- Ellen Kyle Vavasour Noel
- pp. 217-218
- "A Night of Peril!" (1872)
- pp. 219-234
- Ellen Vavasour Noel
- pp. 235-236
- "The House-Keeper at Lorme Hall" (1872)
- pp. 237-251
- Isabella Valancy Crawford
- pp. 253-255
- "A Rose in His Grace" (c.1880)
- pp. 256-268
Additional Information
ISBN
9780776616735
Related ISBN(s)
9780776603858
DOI
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OCLC
300495713
Pages
268
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
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No
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