THE ATHENAEUMRoughing It in the BushSusanna Moodie
Journey
Roughing It in the Bush
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textSusanna Moodie, one of the literary Strickland sisters of Suffolk, came to Upper Canada with her husband in 1832, and spent hard years on a farm near Cobourg and then in the bush north of Peterborough. Her book of 1852 was written partly to warn gentlefolk like herself against coming out to clear the forest. Its sketches of neighbours, fires, ague and loneliness have made it one of the founding books of Canadian writing.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 12 hr 5 min
- Where to find it
- The Canadian Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #4389. In the public domain in the United States.