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The prize-winning entry in a national competition for distinctively Canadian fiction, Winona was serialised in a Montreal story paper in 1873. The novel focuses on the lives of two foster-sisters raised in the northern Ontario wilderness: Androsia Howard, daughter of a retired military officer, and Winona, the daughter of a Huron chief. As the story begins, both have come under the sway of the mysterious and powerful Andrew Farmer, who has proposed to Androsia while secretly pursuing Winona. With the arrival of Archie Frazer, the son of an old military friend, there is a violent crisis, and the scene shifts southward as Archie takes the foster-sisters via Toronto to his family's estate in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Farmer follows, and the narrative moves towards a sensational climax.
The critical introduction and appendices to this edition place Winona in the contexts of Crawford's career, the contemporary market for serialized fiction, the sensation novel of the 1860s, nineteenth-century representations of women and North American indigenous peoples, and the emergence of Canadian literary nationalism in the era following Confederation.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Isabella Valancy Crawford: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Editorial Emendations
Line-end Hyphenated Compounds in the Original Text
Winona; or,The Foster-Sisters
Appendix A: The Discourse of Womanhood
Eliza Lynn Linton, "The Girl of the Period," Saturday Review 25 (14 March 1868)
"Fast Young Ladies," Canadian Illustrated News (28 September 1872)
Sara Jeannette Duncan, "Saunterings," The Week (28 October 1886)
E. Pauline Johnson, "A Strong Race Opinion: On the IndianGirl in Modern Fiction," Toronto Sunday Globe (22 May 1892)
Appendix B: Editorials on Literature and Publishing from Desbarats's Papers
["The state of Canadian literature"], Canadian Illustrated News (13 July 1872)
"Sensation Literature," The Hearthstone (3 August 1872)
"Artistic Filth," The Favorite (1 February 1873)
Appendix C: Prospectus for The Favorite
"Our First Bow," The Favorite (28 December 1872)
"Who Will Write for The Favorite," The Favorite (28 December 1872)
Appendix D: Reports of the 1873 Autumn Assizes, Peterborough, Ontario
From "The Assizes," Peterborough Examiner (30 October 1873)
From "The Autumn Assizes," Peterborough Review (31 October 1873)
Appendix E: Illustrations
"Winona's Return," The Favorite (1 February 1873)
The Clytie Bust (c. CE 40-50)
John Everett Millais, "The Black Brunswicker" (1860)
Carlo Dolci, "Madonna of the Veil," c. 1630-86, Canadian Illustrated News (23 December 1871)
"A Moonlight Excursion on the St. Lawrence," Canadian Illustrated News (24 June 1871)
William Armstrong, "Ice Boats on the Bay, Toronto," Canadian Illustrated News (18 February 1871)
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