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Roughing it in the Bush ; or, Forest Life in Canada. A New and Revised edition, with an Introductory Chapter, in which Canada of the Present is Contrasted with Canada of Forty Years Ago
by MOODIE, Susanna [Susannah Strickland] [1803-1885]
- Used
- good
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto: Published and printed by Hunter, Rose & Co, 1871. 1st. Hard Cover. Good. UNCOMMON FIRST CDN HUNTER ROSE EDITION OF THIS TRAILL TITLE
12.5cm x 18.5cm, (5" x 7 1/4"), [5] prelims including half-title, fronts, title page and contents,[7]-538,[6p.]ads. 7 plates; frontis plate and 6 plates (pp.12,13,18,19,20 & 24), p49 un-numbered, p69 mis-paged 67, 315 mis-paged 515.
Rebacked with original brown cloth boards with black symbols and gilt type and symbols on cover. Spine sunned with gilt type and beaver image still quite readable.
Original dark green end papers with previous owners large personal bookplate pasted on. Internally, sporadic foxing. The pages are otherwise clean. An uncommon book in good condition. This copy is the cloth version of 1871 first Canadian (Hunter, Rose) published book.
First time this title was published in Canada with Susanna revising and updating with a very upbeat preface promoting Canada. One of the scarcier 19th century editions of this classic.
"This new (1871) edition was printed by Hunter Rose and published jointly by them, Dawson Brothers of Montreal, and Thomas MacClear of Toronto in late 1871. Susanna received '200 dollars for the publication of 2,500 copies and a Royalty of 4 cents on every copy they may require over that number" quoted from Roughing it in the bush, or, Life in Canada By Susanna Moodie, Carl Ballstadt 1988.
TPL 3293 Hunter Rose.
Synopsis
Susanna Moodie was born Susanna Strickland in Bungay, Suffolk, England, in 1803. The sixth and final daughter of a retired dock manager, she grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged the children in reading and in writing. Her sisters Agnes and Elizabeth would write Lives of the Queens of England and other biographies of the aristocracy, her sister Catharine Parr (later Traill) would emigrate to Canada and write several natural history books, and her brother Samuel, another emigrant to Canada, would write of the settler's life. Susanna’s juvenilia include poetry and many fiction tales for young adults. In 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, a military officer who had returned to England from South Africa to explore publication projects and to find a wife. A year later, they emigrated to Upper Canada (Ontario). In Flora Lyndsay (1854), Susanna Moodie gives a fictionalized account of the family’s move to Canada, concluding with the journey up the Saint Lawrence River. For their first seventeen months in Canada, the Moodies lived on cleared farmland near Port Hope. In 1834 they moved to a bush farm in Douro Township north of Peterborough and near the homes of Samuel Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. The farm was the Moodie home for five years, and Roughing It in the Bush (1852), describes their life in these two backwoods areas. From 1837 to 1839 Dunbar Moodie served in the Upper Canada militia, and in 1839 he was appointed Sheriff of Victoria District (later Hastings County). His family moved to Belleville in 1840, their home until his death in 1869. After her husband’s death Susanna Moodie spent her time with her various grown children and with her sister Catharine. Susanna Moodie died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1885. From the eBook edition.
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- Bookseller
- Lord Durham Rare Books (IOBA)
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 583
- Title
- Roughing it in the Bush ; or, Forest Life in Canada. A New and Revised edition, with an Introductory Chapter, in which Canada of the Present is Contrasted with Canada of Forty Years Ago
- Author
- MOODIE, Susanna [Susannah Strickland] [1803-1885]
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Published and printed by Hunter, Rose & Co
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 1871
- Keywords
- Roughing it in the Bush ; or, Forest Life in Canada. A New and Revised edition, with an Introductory Chapter, in which Canada of the Present is Contrasted with Canada of Forty Years Ago.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Literature;
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