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About Roughing It in the Bush. Roughing It in the Bush chronicles Susanna Moodie’s harsh and often humorous experiences homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada.A frank and fascinating account of how one woman coped, not only with a new world, but with a new self, this unabridged text continues to justify the international sensation it caused when it was first published in 1852.
Roughing It in The Bush chronicles Susanna Moodie’s harsh and often humorous experiences homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada. A frank and fascinating account of how one woman coped, not only with a new world, but with a new self, this unabridged text continues to justify the international sensation it caused when it was first published in 1852.
Moodie was an English writer who immigrated to Canada in 1832 with her husband in order to secure a better life for her growing family. Atwood had read Moodie’s book Roughing It In The Bush prior to her dream that inspired her to write her own book of poetry about the immigrant woman.
The site of the Moodie Homestead, on the point of land below the Moodie Farm. Today the lakeshore is occupied by rental cottages. A hundred metres back from the point, to the right, is the marker below, on the land once farmed by Dunbar and Susanna Moodie. The land has largely returned to what it looked like when the Moodies first saw it: wild, tangled, swampy, and still thoroughly useless as.
Biography. Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay, on the River Waveney in Suffolk.She was the youngest sister of a family of writers, including Agnes Strickland, Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill. She wrote her first children's book in 1822, and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha.In London she was also involved in the Anti.
Michael Peterman is Professor of English at Trent University. He is the author of Roberson Davies, Susanna Moodie: A Life, and “This Great Epoch of Our Lives”: Susanna Moodie’s “Roughing It in the Bush”.He is the editor of The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill, and is co-editor of Susanna Moodie: Letters of a Lifetime with Carl Ballstadt and Elizabeth Hopkins and Letters.
Susanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush, first published in 1852, is the account of a British middle-class woman immigrating to the backwoods of Canada with her husband and daughter.The memoir.