Pearls and PebblesDundurn, 15 лист. 1999 р. - 240 стор. How fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author’s broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill’s eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... 49 THE SPIDER 58 PROSPECTING , AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR 65 IN THE CANADIAN WOODS 67 THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING 82 ALONE IN THE FOREST 90 62 ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA 99 THE CHILDREN OF THE CONTENTS.
... first chapter establishes Catharine's position as a family favourite , “ an especial pet in the house- hold . ” As the biographical introduction to the first edition makes clear , 2 Catharine , the cheerful loving child , kept the ...
... first text.3 Mary Agnes was Traill's grandniece , daughter of Agnes FitzGibbon Chamberlin , who collaborated with Traill on Canadian Wild Flowers ( 1868 ) , and grand- daughter of Susanna Moodie . Mary Agnes was a well - known writer ...
... First Death in the Clearing ” and “ Alone in the Forest . ” When the Traills emigrated in 1832 , much of Ontario was only sparse- ly settled . Backbreaking and often heartbreaking labour accompanied efforts to conquer the centuries ...
... First , as an emigrant British gentle- woman , Traill's narrator finds the backwoods socially threatening , actual- ly being frightened by the hospitable Irish family who give her shelter : I was startled by the sight of mine host ...
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |