Improved by Cultivation: English-Canadian Prose to 1914R.G. Moyles Broadview Press, 1994 M09 28 - 344 pages This anthology combines some of the finest writing by such well-known writers as Leacock, Moodie, Ernest Thompson Seton and Lucy Maud Montgomery with fascinating pieces by lesser-known names such as George Copway (the first Canadian native writer to have his work published in English) and Lady Agnes Macdonald (the wife of Canada’s first prime minister, and a popular writer of great verve and enthusiasm). In addition to three genres of fiction the anthology includes two important varieties of non-fiction in which early Canadians made a strong and distinctive contribution: Travel and Exploration Narratives and Memoirs and Descriptive Sketches. |
Contents
AGNES DEANS CAMERON DOWN THE ATHABASCA RIVER | 76 |
CATHARINE PARR TRAILL CLEARING THE LAND | 97 |
GEORGINA BINNIECLARK THRESHING | 158 |
THOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON THE CLOCKMAKER | 184 |
NORMAN DUNCAN THE FRUITS OF TOIL | 292 |
ABRAHAMS | 315 |
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