Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life

A Novel by Susanna Moodie

By Susanna Moodie
Edited by Michael A. Peterman
Categories: History, Canadian History, Literature & Language Studies, Literary Criticism
Series: Canadian Literature Collection
Publisher: Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
Paperback : 9780776608082, February 2014
Ebook (PDF) : 9780776621234, 448 pages, February 2014
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780776621241, 448 pages, February 2014
Ebook (MobiPocket) : 9780776621258, 448 pages, February 2014

Description

Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic. Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings. Though Moodie fictionalizes herself in the context of this novel, Flora Lyndsay remains a close personalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic. Despite the limited critical attention it receives, Flora Lyndsay reveals Moodie’s style, her sense of form, and her distinctive approach to writing female autobiography. This edition, complete with a wide corpus of endnotes, an extensive list of emendations, and a critical introduction, helps address this oversight and gives a closer look at the iconic phenomenon that is Susanna Moodie.
Published in English.