Sisters In The Wilderness: The Lives Of Susanna Moodie And Catharine Parr Traill Robin L. West Publisher: Octopus Books Limited

Publisher: Octopus Books Limited

A total of 155 chapters richly enhanced with photographs

Gift inscription glued to front endpage with a list of dates underneath written by previous owner

The Thames [1903]

moderate wear on the front inner hinge

Sisters In The Wilderness: The Lives Of Susanna Moodie And Catharine Parr Traill Robin L. West Publisher: Octopus Books LimitedIn the inhospitable and hardscrabble bush of Canada, facing a pioneering existence that they never even knew existed, the well educated, but modestly married, British born Strickland sisters, Susanna and Catharine, turned to the pen to ease their loneliness and isolation. Susanna Moodies Roughing It in the Bush warned her countrymen from taking the bait and emigrating to Canada; Catharine Parr Traills The Backwoods of Canada and Life in the Clearings