Letters of a LifetimeFirst published in 1985, this volume of letters follows Susanna Moodie from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. The letters provide a sense of Moodie's literary accomplishments before her emigration, the long, uncertain struggle to develop her career as a writer in the colony, and the brief but intense period of literary activity during which her books were published in Britain and the U.S. |
Contents
Susanna Strickland | 7 |
John Lovell editor of the Literary Garland | 78 |
John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie | 86 |
A crosswritten letter in Susanna Moodies hand | 113 |
Watercolour floral painting by Susanna Moodie | 263 |
GENEALOGIES | 358 |
SOURCES OF LETTERS AND ILLUSTRATIONS | 365 |
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