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by Susanna Moodie (Author), Carl Ballstadt (Editor), Elizabeth Hopkins (Editor)
First published in 1985, this volume of letters follows Susanna Moodie from her Suffolk girlhood and her experience as an aspiring young writer in London, through her emigration to Upper Canada and five decades of Canadian life. The letters provide a sense of Moodie's literary accomplishments before her emigration, the long, uncertain struggle to develop her career as a writer in the colony, and the brief but intense period of literary activity during which her books were published in Britain and the U.S.
Author Biography
Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada. Carl Ballstadt is a professor emeritus of the Department of English at McMaster University. Elizabeth Hopkins is a member of the English Department at Glendon College, York University. Michael Peterman is professor emeritus and past Chairman of the Department of English, Trent University. He is a co-editor of Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime and Letters of Love and Duty: The Correspondence of Susanna and John Moodie.
