Susanna Moodie - Bibliography

Writer, born in Bungay, Suffolk, E England, UK. She married in 1831, and moved to Canada the following year. She came from a literary family - her sister, and neighbour in Canada, was the writer Catherine Parr Traill (1802–99) - and among her many literary works are poems, stories for children, and sketches. Her best-known work concerns her life in Cobourg, Ontario, Roughing It in the Bush: or, Life in Canada (1852). Along with later memoirs and novels, this is marked by humour, frankness, and a dramatic and keen observation unusual in the literature of emigration and settlement.

Susanna Moodie, née Strickland (6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was a British author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada.

Moodie, younger sister of Catharine Parr Traill, and was one of a family of writers. She wrote her first children's book in 1822, and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha.

Moodie continued to write in Canada and her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in the colony. She suffered through the economic depression in 1836, and her husband served in the militia against William Lyon Mackenzie in the Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837.

As a middle class Englishwoman Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it.

In 1852, she published Roughing it in the Bush, detailing her experiences on the farm in the 1830s. In 1853, she published Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush, about her time in Belleville.

Her books and poetry inspired Margaret Atwood's collection of poetry, The Journals of Susanna Moodie, published in 1970.

Bibliography

Novels

Mark Hurdlestone - 1853 Flora Lyndsay - 1854 Matrimonial Speculations - 1854 Geoffrey Moncton - 1855 The World Before Them - 1868

Poetry

Patriotic Songs - 1830 (with Agnes Strickland) Enthusiastic and Other Poems - 1831

Children's books

Spartacus - 1822 The Little Quaker The Sailor Brother The Little Prisoner Hugh Latimer - 1828 Rowland Massingham Profession and Principle George Leatrim - 1875

Memoirs

Roughing It in the Bush - 1852 Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush - 1853

Letters

Letters of a Lifetime - 1985 (edited by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael Peterman)