The embroidered tent: Five gentlewomen in early Canada, Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin

By Marian Fowler

Book Overview

In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887840914
• ISBN13: 9780887840913
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: House of Anansi Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.