Forest and other Gleanings reclaims for the contemporary reader a number of stories and sketches written by Catharine Parr Traill after her emigration to Canada in 1832. While most pieces collected here appeared in magazines in Britain, the United States, and Canada, a few have been drawn from archival holdings and make their first appearance here. This collection seeks, as it were, to complete her aspirations and to offer readers interested in Traill and 19th-century Upper Canada a "gleaning" of her better sketches and stories.
Authors
Catherine Parr Traill, Michael Peterman, Carl Ballstadt, Catharine Parr Traill
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.3
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 20
- General Note
- Collection of short writing previously published in annuals, newspapers and magazines Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-on
- ISBN
- 0776603914 9780776616070
- LCCN
- PR9199.2.T73
- LCCN Item number
- F67 1994eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (250 p.)
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00200089 (OCoLC)180704323 (CaOOCEL)403637
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Introduction 12
- Reflections of the English Past 28
- "The Autobiography of an Unlucky Wit" 30
- "Cousin Kate: or the Professor Outwitted" 42
- "A Slight Sketch of the Early Life of Mrs. Moodie" 57
- Backwoods Revisited 68
- Lost Child 70
- "The Mill of the Rapids. A Canadian Sketch" 70
- "A Canadian Scene" 83
- Female Trials 89
- "Female Trials in the Bush" 89
- "Generosity of the Poor" 103
- "My Irish Maid Isabella—A Night of Peril" 110
- Rebellion 122
- "The Mackenzie Rebellion" 122
- "The Interrupted Bridal. A True Story of the First Rebellion in the Colony" 140
- Customs and Ceremonies 152
- "Canadian Lumberers" 152
- "A Visit to the Camp of the Chippewa Indians" 160
- "Ramblings by the River" 171
- "Female Servants in the Bush" 179
- "Humours of Holy Eve" 186
- "Bush Wedding and Wooing" 191
- "The Old Doctor. A Backwoods Sketch" 198
- On the Rice Lake Plains 206
- "The Rice Lake Plains" 208
- "Rice Lake Plains—The Wolf Tower" 213
- "A Walk to Railway Point" 225
- Floral Sketches and Essays 236
- "Floral Sketches No. 1. The Violet" 238
- "The Forest Monarch and His Dependants. A Fable" 247
- "A Glance within the Forest" 250
