Pagine1803–1885 · Bungay, Suffolk, England · also known as Moodie
Susanna Moodie emigrated from England to Upper Canada in 1832 and struggled to farm the backwoods north of Peterborough. Roughing It in the Bush (1852), her frank, funny and often bitter account of pioneer life, is a founding text of Canadian literature; her sister Catharine Parr Traill wrote The Backwoods of Canada. Margaret Atwood reimagined her in The Journals of Susanna Moodie.
Begin with Roughing It in the Bush.
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L. M. Montgomery · Stephen Leacock · Gabrielle Roy · Margaret Laurence · Alice Munro · Margaret Atwood
Susanna Moodie emigrated from England to Upper Canada in 1832 and struggled to farm the backwoods north of Peterborough. Roughing It in the Bush (1852), her frank, funny and often bitter account of pioneer life, is a founding text of Canadian literature; her sister Catharine Parr Traill wrote The Backwoods of Canada.
Roughing It in the Bush is usually considered Susanna Moodie’s best-known work.
Most readers start with Roughing It in the Bush.
Both refer to the same writer.
Yes — 1 of Susanna Moodie’s books are free to read online in Pagine, the free e-reader and reading tracker.