Disappointed Hopes

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)

Listen next episodes of Roughing It in the Bush:
A Change in our Prospects , 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 , Canadian Sketches (Part One) , Canadian Sketches (Part Two) , The Fire , The Little Stumpy Man , The Outbreak , The Walk to Dummer , The Whirlwind