Life In The Clearings

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387315198
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781974567577
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Clearings written by Susanna Moodie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've read Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace, the historical fiction novel that describes a gruesome double murder in Canada in 1843, you would be interested to know the sources that were used by Atwood during her research. Life in the Clearings by Susanna Moodie was one such reference book in which the author, Susanna Moodie recounts her meeting with the infamous murderess Grace Marks, a young house help who was convicted to life imprisonment for her role in the slaying of her employers. Susanna Moodie was an Englishwoman born in Suffolk. Her two sisters were also writers. She wrote and published her first book of children's stories before she was twenty. Later, Moodie transcribed the narrative of a former Caribbean slave, Mary Price, as part of her involvement in the Anti-Slavery Society. She married a former military man who had served in the Napoleonic Wars and migrated to Canada in 1832. She continued to write about her life in the newly formed colonies there and today, these books are invaluable pieces of history that document a pioneering way of life. The customs, climate, wildlife and landscape as well as the social happenings of Upper Canada are brilliantly recorded in a series of journals, letters and biographical sketches that Moodie wrote to keep herself occupied and also to supplement the family income. Born into a relatively wealthy upper middle class English family, Moodie herself found life in the colony dull and hard and she did not find life in the "bush" as she called it, particularly enjoyable. When she and her family moved to a small town, Belleville, in Southeastern Ontario, this was much more to her liking. She called Belleville the "clearings." Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush to give the book's complete title is a sequel to an earlier volume that she titled Roughing it in The Bush which dealt with her struggle to maintain life on a remote Canadian farm. Roughing it in the Bush was an immediate success and became a ready reckoner for potential emigrants from Britain who were thinking of migrating to Canada. She meant it to be a frank and unromantic view of the tough life that new emigrants born in comfortable surroundings like herself would have to face in the new country. Life in the Clearings also served as inspiration for Margaret Atwood's 1970 collection of poems entitled The Journals of Susanna Moodie. In 2003 Moodie was honored by the government of Canada with a commemorative postage stamp. Life in the Clearings is indeed a remarkable document of a way of life that is now long gone...

Author : afterwards MOODIE STRICKLAND (Susannah)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
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Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : New York : De Witt & Davenport
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by New York : De Witt & Davenport. This book was released on 1853 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Life in the Clearings versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life in the Clearings versus the Bush" by Mrs. Moodie is a candid account of Canadian life in the mid-19th century and the experiences of early settlers in the country. Written as a sequel to her previous work, "Roughing it in the Bush," this book offers a contrast between the challenges and hardships of rural life in the backwoods versus the opportunities and conveniences of living in more settled areas. From descriptions of local improvements, education, and amusements, to tales of odd characters and lost children, the author provides a glimpse into the social and cultural aspects of life in Canada during this period.

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : New York : De Witt & Davenport
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by New York : De Witt & Davenport. This book was released on 1853 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781986398473
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie is a rare manuscript, the original residing in some of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, typed out and formatted to perfection, allowing new generations to enjoy the work. Publishers of the Valley's mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life.

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 338731518X
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
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Download or read book Life in the Clearing Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781489529763
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush written by Susanna Moodie and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dear foster-mother, on whose ample breast The hungry still find food, the weary rest; The child of want that treads thy happy shore, Shall feel the grasp of poverty no more; His honest toil meet recompense can claim, And Freedom bless him with a freeman's name!" S.M. In our work of "Roughing it in the Bush," I endeavoured to draw a picture of Canadian life, as I found it twenty years ago, in the Backwoods. My motive in giving such a melancholy narrative to the British public, was prompted by the hope of deterring well-educated people, about to settle in this colony, from entering upon a life for which they were totally unfitted by their previous pursuits and habits. To persons unaccustomed to hard labour, and used to the comforts and luxuries deemed indispensable to those moving in the middle classes at home, a settlement in the bush can offer few advantages. It has proved the ruin of hundreds and thousands who have ventured their all in this hazardous experiment; nor can I recollect a single family of the higher class, that have come under my own personal knowledge, that ever realised an independence, or bettered their condition, by taking up wild lands in remote localities; while volumes might be filled with failures, even more disastrous than our own, to prove the truth of my former statements.