Susanna Moodie

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Standard Name: Moodie, Susanna
Birth Name: Susanna Strickland
Married Name: Susanna Moodie
Pseudonym: Z. Z.
SM is best remembered for her first-person narrative of pioneer life in Canada, Roughing It in the Bush, 1852, considered a foundational work of Canadian literature. She was a prolific author who wrote children's stories, sketches, novels, poetry, and other non-fiction. Her work has proved important for two contemporary Canadian writers, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields .

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Production Mary Prince
The Anti-Slavery Society published The History of Mary Prince , a West Indian Slave. Related by herself, dictated by Prince at her own suggestion to Susanna Strickland (later Moodie) .
The title was chosen...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Margaret Atwood
Subjects include English women writers Virginia Woolf , Antonia Fraser , Marina Warner , and Hilary Mantel , Americans Toni Morrison and Ursula Le Guin, as well as the reluctant Canadian Susanna Moodie and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Carol Shields
Judith has abandoned fiction for biography, seriously seeking truth by writing about Susanna Moodie (whose neuroses and weaknesses, she feels, are just enough to make her likeable and interesting). She puzzles about the dividing line...
Travel Catharine Parr Traill
To help her recover, a cousin named Rebecca Leverton took Catharine to Bath, Oxford, and Herefordshire. They returned to Reydon Hall upon news of her sister Susanna's plans for emigration.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
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