John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie

Standard Name: Moodie, John Wedderburn Dunbar

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Susanna Moodie
During visits from spiritualist Kate Fox , SM and her husband received communications from both dead fathers and a dead friend, Anna Laura Harral .
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 1994.
14
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
241, 246
Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Moodie
Susanna Strickland met her future husband, John Moodie , through a friend, poet-cum-literary-agent Thomas Pringle .
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
27, 34
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press, 1995, 3 vols.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 1994.
5
Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Moodie
Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie , a military officer and author.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
38
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
250
Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Moodie
SM 's beloved husband suffered from a stroke; around this time he continued to battle job-related stress.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
269
Family and Intimate relationships Susanna Moodie
John Moodie , SM 's much loved husband, died at home of a stroke.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
278
Peterman, Michael. Susanna Moodie: A Life. ECW Press, 1999.
167
Occupation Susanna Moodie
SM and her husband held their final séance.
Thurston, John. “‘The Casket of Truth’: The Social Significance of Susanna Moodie’s Spiritual Dilemmas”. Canadian Poetry, Vol.
35
, 1 Sept.–28 Feb. 1994.
16
Publishing Susanna Moodie
SM 's husband sold some of her verses to a Toronto paper, The Palladium; later that year she began her long association with Montreal's Literary Garland.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
136-7
Residence Catharine Parr Traill
CPT and her husband left England for Canada just days before Susanna Moodie and her husband also left. They were eager to claim Thomas Traill's military land grant.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
47
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
332
Residence Susanna Moodie
SM packed her meagre belongings onto a sleigh and moved her family from the backwoods; they arrived this day in Belleville, Ontario, where her husband was sherriff.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
147-9
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
On invitation from Belleville bookseller John Wilson , SM and her husband began editing The Victoria Magazine: A Cheap Periodical for the People. It ran for a year, and featured rising Canadian writers.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
198-9
New, William H., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 99. Gale Research, 1990.
247
Textual Production Susanna Moodie
SM was influenced by spiritualism, though she was often unsure whether to be amazed or amused. For news of the movement, she and her husband read the Tribune and the Albion from New York. John Moodie
Travel Susanna Moodie
SM and her husband made their first and only return trip to the area they had once farmed, now called Lakefield.
Gray, Charlotte. Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. Viking, 1999.
273

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