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Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill (Paperback)

by Charlotte Gray (Author)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0140276742
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140276749
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 409,529 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A heart rendering account of an amazing pioneering story., 1 May 2001
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Two genteel writers, Sussana Moodie and Catherine Parr Traille from rural Suffolk set sail in 1832 with their soldier husbands in ships tightly packed with emigrants. Their hopes were high for a good life in Canada with greater prospects than Engalnd offered them. Acclaimed biographer Charlotte Gray arrived in Canada 150 years later and read Susanna's best known book "Roughing it in the Bush". This inspired her to research the wealth of personal letters, journals and published work of the two women. "Sisters in the Wilderness" is a heart rendering account of their amazing pioneering story. Charlotte Gray's descriptive narrative often reads like a gripping novel. You hasten to turn the page to find out how the sisters could possibly survive yet another crisis of failed crops, starvation, the death of one more child. And always there was the hopelessness of rejection slips from the few uninterested Canadian publishers. Their arrival in the Canadian back woods was bitterly disappointing. Like others, they had been thoroughly duped by unscrupulous English land agents whose promise of a utopian land of plenty were totally false. The husbands of the two sisters were manually useless and unfamiliar with hard labour. Both ex soldiers they had been dismissed after the Napoleonic wars on meagre half pay with the bonus of free Canadian land thrown in. They now faced the hacking down of huge trees, clearing bush and forest land before building their homes in a cheerless wilderness. Consequently in leaking log cabins in the woods, the sisters faced risky child births, sometimes alone, with the threat of wild animals, frostbite and starvation. And when their babies were asleep they scribbled for hours by the homespun smoky light of a rag dipped in pork fat!Writing had become a compulsive therapy.Eventually opttimism and hard work brought literary success. Sussana Moodie published "Roughing it in the Bush" and Catharine Parr Traille published "The Backwoods of Canada". But payment was abysmally low. Charlotte Gray draws you into her characters so deeply that you share their isolation and marvel at their hope, faith and determination. No wonder the book won a Canadian award for the Best non-fiction Book of the Year.
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