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Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada. Complete in One Volume. [SIGNED/INSCRIBED copy]

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Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada. Complete in One Volume. [SIGNED/INSCRIBED copy]

by Moodie, Susanna

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New York: De Witt & Davenport, 1852. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second American edition, complete in one volume (with two tables of contents, and separate pagination). Includes a Preface to American Edition, dated June 1852, and an Advertisement to the London Edition, dated January 22, 1852. SIGNED and inscribed by Susanna Moodie, on the front free endpaper, as follows: "To / Anna Robertson with / Susanna Moodie's love / Belleville / May 21, 1856." Original olive decorative stamped and gilt cloth hard covers, recently rebacked, with some retouching to edges and corners. Edges toned and intermittent moderate staining and foxing throughout. Otherwise a sound, tight and attrative copy of this edition. Very neat. Fragment of original spine tipped in at rear. xii,212+[6-]224pp..

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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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Title
Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada. Complete in One Volume. [SIGNED/INSCRIBED copy]
Author
Moodie, Susanna
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Publisher
De Witt & Davenport
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1852
Size
12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾
Keywords
history literature Canada Canadian Canadiana Susanna Moodie Roughing It in the Bush signed autographed collectible

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