Description: Moodie Mrs, Susanna, Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush De Witt and Davenport, New York (1854) 1st US edition. It was published in London in 1853 Hardcover. Publisher's stamped blue cloth gilt, fair with wear to head and tail of spine, missing FFEP Wikipedia: In 1832, with her husband, a British Army officer, and daughter, Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada. The family settled on a farm in Douro township, near Lakefield, north of Peterborough, where her brother Samuel Strickland (1804-1867) worked as a surveyor, and where artifacts are housed in a museum. Founded by Samuel, the museum was formerly an Anglican church and overlooks the Otonabee River where Susanna once canoed. It also displays artifacts concerning Samuel, as well as her elder sister and fellow writer Catharine, who married a friend of John Moodie's and immigrated to the same area a few weeks before Susanna and John. Moodie continued to write in Canada, and her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She observed life in what was then the backwoods of Ontario, including native customs, the climate, the wildlife, relations between the Canadian population and recent American settlers, and the strong sense of community and the communal work, known as "bees" (which she, incidentally, hated). She suffered through the economic depression in 1836, and her husband served in the militia against William Lyon Mackenzie in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.
Price: 30 USD
Location: Waban, Massachusetts
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Signed: No
Author: Moodie, Mrs. (Susanna Strickland
Personalized: No
Publisher: De Witt & Davenport
Topic: Canada
Subject: Canada
Year Printed: 1854
Original/Facsimile: Original
