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Susanna Strickland was born in Bungay, Suffolk, England on December 6, 1803.
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Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her greatest success was Roughing it in the Bush. The inspiration for the memoir came from a suggestion by her editor that she write an "emigrant's guide" for British people looking to move to Canada. Moodie wrote of the trials and tribulations she found as a "New Canadian", rather than the advantages to be had in the colony. She claimed that her intention was not to discourage immigrants but to prepare people like herself, raised in relative wealth and with no prior experience as farmers, for what life in Canada would be like. This Edition Contains 11 Works; ? The Little Quaker ? Mark Hurdlestone ? Life in the Clearings versus the Bush ? Enthusiasm and Other Poems ? Flora Lyndsay 1 ? Flora Lyndsay 2 ? Roughing it in the Bush ? The Monctons ? The World Before Them ? George Leatrim ? Life in the Backwood This Edition Features: ? Biography of Susanna Moodie ? Active Table of Contents ? Well Kindle Formatting
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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.
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Susanna Strickland was born in Bungay, Suffolk, England on December 6, 1803.
Mrs. Moodie, several of whose sisters were also writers, had begun to write in England. Between 1839 and 1851 she contributed many poems, serial novels, short stories, and prose sketches to the chief Canadian literary magazine of the period, the Literary Garland. In 1847 she helped to establish in Belleville the Victoria Magazine and was its editor and leading contributor during the year and a half that it survived. Mrs. Moodie's masterpiece, Roughing It in the Bush, appeared in 1852, and its slightly less successful sequel, Life in the Clearings versus the Bush, a year later. Since most of the sketches in the former book had been written much earlier and published as sketches in the Literary Garland, there is a marked difference in the author's attitudes in the two books. Mrs. Moodie's poems and romantic novels-the latter include Mark Hurdlestone (1853), Flora Lyndsay (1853), Matrimonial Speculations (1854), and Geoffrey Moncton (1856)-are much more conventional in their form and content and are typical expressions of Victorian sentimentality, didacticism, and romantic idealization. Her reputation rests firmly on the two books of autobiographical sketches, which together give us the most convincing picture we have of how life in pioneer Ontario struck a sensitive and intelligent woman. She died in Toronto on April 8, 1885.
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Quotations:
"Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. "
"The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers. "
"What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil. "
"Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth. "
"I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master. "
"Large parties given to very young children. .. foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child. "
"The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy. "
She was rather snobbish in her attitude toward less highly educated immigrants and settlers; in Life in the Clearings she has adapted herself more fully to the pioneer environment and become more appreciative of the virtues of her neighbors and acquaintances. In both books Mrs. Moodie's best qualities are her accurate observations of the people and processes of pioneer life, her dry humor, her gift for striking portraiture of eccentric characters, and her sturdy common sense. She can make even the most commonplace event memorable by the honesty and shrewd wit with which she describes it.
She married J. W. D. Moodie, an English army officer. In 1832 they emigrated to Upper Canada (now Ontario) and settled first on a farm near Cobourg. In 1834 they moved to a backwoods area in Douro Township and cleared a farm from the wilderness. Capt. Moodie took part in suppressing the abortive Rebellion of 1837, led by William Lyon Mackenzie, and was shortly thereafter appointed sheriff of Hastings County. From that time on, the family lived in Belleville, where Mrs. Moodie did most of her writing.