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Roughing It in the Bush

by Susanna MOODIE (1803 - 1885)

Quebec

Roughing It in the Bush

'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:
The Wilderness and Our Indian Friends (Part Two) , A Change in our Prospects , A Journey to the Woods , A Trip to Stony Lake , 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 , 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 , 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