Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
«Williams has prepared a beautifully-edited collection of writings and art. It will be interest to all readers who value the role of the private individual in both recording and shaping Ontario's social history.»
Helen Smith, <em>Ontario History</em>, vol 101:02:09
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art, and traced her own physical and psychological transformation from cultivated Englishwoman to hard-working pioneer settler. Les mer
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In her extensive introduction, Barbara Williams contextualizes Langton's life and work and reflects on them in light of current scholarship in life writing, art history, and early emigrant, cultural, and social history. This is the definitive edition of Anne Langton's important text.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- University of Toronto Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780802035493
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
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«Williams has prepared a beautifully-edited collection of writings and art. It will be interest to all readers who value the role of the private individual in both recording and shaping Ontario's social history.»
Helen Smith, <em>Ontario History</em>, vol 101:02:09