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SUSANNA MOODIE ROUGHING IT IN THE BUSH. A graphic novel adaptation by Willow Dawson illustrated by Selena Goulding
Carol Shields Willow Dawson Selena Goulding Patrick Crowe
In an evocative synthesis of insight and imagination, this beautifully-illustrated novel brings to life a moving historic epic journey story for anyone interested in Canadian history and culture, for cynics, for students, for immigrants, for readers of literary fiction and for fans of graphic novels and of Jane Austen. This is a moving story about a personal struggle for survival.
Featuring a foreword by celebrated author Margaret Atwood, Susanna Moodie: Roughing it in the Bush brings the words of this controversial yet fascinating woman to life with a story that reads like Jane Austen meets The Last of the Mohicans.
A subject of fascination for writers like Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley, Susanna Moodie was a Romantic writer from a celebrated literary family in England whose life changed forever when she and her husband left their home for the backwoods of Canada in 1832. Misled by land merchants, the Moodies discovered that settlement in Upper Canada was far from pastoral, but rather a wild frontier.
Utterly unprepared for pioneer life, they soon found themselves starving in a hostile wilderness. With her husband absent in the army during the 1837 Rebellion, Susanna began publishing her writing to feed and clothe her growing family. Moodie's exasperated and biting testament of pioneer life was praised in England but turned her into a controversial figure. Two centuries later she is now honored as an early feminist and literary pioneer.
PATRICK CROWE is a producer, writer, game designer and filmmaker. His productions have won accolades around the world, including Emmys, Geminis, and Rose d'Or Awards. In recognition of his launching of the first interactive TV project in Canada, he received the Producer of the Year award at the Canadian New Media Awards. His writing includes media theory, animated television series and a feature film co-written with author Carol Shields.
(THE LATE) CAROL SHIELDS is the author of three short story collections and eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange Prize. An interest in Moodie led to her earliest non-fiction, Susanna Moodie: Voice & Vision, a critical examination of the Canadian pioneer's literary work.
A subject of fascination for writers like Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley, Susanna Moodie was a Romantic writer from a celebrated literary family in England whose life changed forever when she and her husband left their home for the backwoods of Canada in 1832. Misled by land merchants, the Moodies discovered that settlement in Upper Canada was far from pastoral, but rather a wild frontier.
Utterly unprepared for pioneer life, they soon found themselves starving in a hostile wilderness. With her husband absent in the army during the 1837 Rebellion, Susanna began publishing her writing to feed and clothe her growing family. Moodie's exasperated and biting testament of pioneer life was praised in England but turned her into a controversial figure. Two centuries later she is now honored as an early feminist and literary pioneer.
PATRICK CROWE is a producer, writer, game designer and filmmaker. His productions have won accolades around the world, including Emmys, Geminis, and Rose d'Or Awards. In recognition of his launching of the first interactive TV project in Canada, he received the Producer of the Year award at the Canadian New Media Awards. His writing includes media theory, animated television series and a feature film co-written with author Carol Shields.
(THE LATE) CAROL SHIELDS is the author of three short story collections and eight novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Stone Diaries and Larry's Party, winner of the Orange Prize. An interest in Moodie led to her earliest non-fiction, Susanna Moodie: Voice & Vision, a critical examination of the Canadian pioneer's literary work.
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