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Product DescriptionFormat: HardcoverPublished: October 30, 2007 Publisher: Doubleday Canada Sisters In Two Worlds: A Visual Biography of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill recreates the remarkable lives of these two pioneering writers. Its absorbing narrative is complemented by modern colour photographs of the places they knew, combined with archival images, paintings, letters, and family artifacts. Written by Canada’s foremost Moodie/Traill scholar, this visual biography is an informative new look at two of this country’s seminal writers and a remarkable tapestry of life in early Containing two hundred colour and black-and-white images, many of them never-before published, this extraordinary book chronicles the lives of two exceptional and inspirational women: sisters, writers, pioneers, and forces of the Canadian imagination. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Michael Peterman has devoted years of study to Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill and has co-edited three volumes of their letters in addition to writing Susanna Moodie: A Life. He is a professor of English literature and Canadian studies at Trent University and principal of Catharine Parr Traill College Charlotte Gray is one of the country’s most popular writers of Canadian history. Her bestselling titles include Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill and Canada: A Portrait in Letters. She lives in Ottawa, where she is adjunct professor in the Department of History at Carleton University. Hugh Brewster, with photographer Ian Brewster, has spent several years documenting places of significance to the sisters and assembling a host of images and artifacts from museums, archives, and private collections. Find out why we love this member... |
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