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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... the anticipated prosperity never materialized, as a writer, Catharine Traill capitalized on her pioneer experiences, publishing such non-fiction Canadian classics as The Backwoods of Canada (1836) and EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
... pioneer woman who survives, even thrives on a hostile frontier. Traill's definition of the ideal frontiers woman represents a significant contribution to Canadian literature. An inveterate scribbler, Traill was still writing when she ...
... pioneer life in Upper Canada. Moreover, within chapters, topics frequently overlap, so that a single sketch becomes a tapestry of interwoven textual strands. Stylistically too, miscellany rules as Traill mingles meditation, anecdote ...
... pioneer life: “Sunset and Sunrise on Lake Ontario,” “The First Death in the Clearing” and “Alone in the Forest.” When the Traills emigrated in 1832, much of Ontario was only sparsely settled. Backbreaking and often heartbreaking labour ...
... pioneer. “Alone in the Forest” sets forth a few less obvious perils of pioneering, too. First, as an emigrant British gentlewoman, Traill's narrator finds the backwoods socially threatening, actually being frightened by the hospitable ...
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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 |
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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 |