Susanna Moodie

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Life in the backwoods

Life in the backwoods

"Life in the Backwoods" is a memoir written by Susanna Moodie, a British author who immigrated to Upper Canada (now Ontario, Canada) in the early 19th century. The book provides a vivid and often challenging portrayal of Moodie's experiences as a...

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. She and her husband moved to Belleville in 1840, which she referred to as "the clearings". Here she described urban life, including religion, art, and...

Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land?

Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land?

Librivox volunteers bring you ten recordings of Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land? by Susanna Moodie. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 16, 2014. Summary by Rachel Author - Susanna Moodie. Narrator - LibriVox Community. Published Date...

Roughing It in the Bush

Roughing It in the Bush

Originally published in 1852, Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie, with contributions from her husband John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, is a vibrant, humorous, and wry description of their arrival and life in the young country of Canada after...

Roughing It in the Bush

Roughing It in the Bush

'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods...