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Roughing It in the Bush

Roughing It in the Bush

by Susanna MOODIE (1803 - 1885)

'Roughing It In the Bush' is Susanna Moodie's account of how she coped with the harshness of life in the woods of Upper Canada, as an Englishwoman homesteading abroad. Her narrative was constructed partly as a response to the glowing falsehoods European land-agents were circulating about life in the New World. Her chronicle is frank and humorous, and was a popular sensation at the time of its publication in 1852. (Summary by Moira Fogarty)


The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part Two)

A Change in our Prospects

A Journey to the Woods

A Trip to Stony Lake

A Visit to Grosse Isle

Adieu to the Woods

Appendix A: Advertisement to the Third Edition

Appendix B: Canada: a Contrast (Introductory Chapter to the 1871 edition)

Appendix C: Jeanie Burns

Brian, the Still-Hunter

Burning the Fallow

Canadian Sketches (Part One)

Canadian Sketches (Part Two)

Disappointed Hopes

Introduction to the Third Edition

John Monaghan

Old Satan and Tom Wilson's Nose

Our First Settlement, and the Borrowing System

Our Journey up the Country

Our Logging-Bee

Phoebe R---, and Our Second Moving

Quebec

The Charivari

The Fire

The Land-Jobber

The Little Stumpy Man

The "Ould Dhragoon"

The Outbreak

The Village Hotel

The Walk to Dummer

The Whirlwind

The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part One)

Tom Wilson's Emigration

Uncle Joe and His Family