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Settler Writing

Persistent and Challenging Enigmas by Jennifer Scott
  • Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie and Michael Peterman
  • Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston
Review Children’s Literature Settler Writing

Survival of the Courageous by Jennifer Fraser
  • Consumption by Kevin Patterson
  • God of the Plains by Gail Robinson
Review Novel Settler Writing

Of Note by Judith Crichton
  • Re-Writing Pioneer Women in Anglo-Canadian Literature by Conny Steenman-Marcusse
Review Feminism Novel Postcolonialism Postmodernism Settler Writing Women’s Studies

Histories of Contact by Janice Fiamengo
  • Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada’s Colonial Past by Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherdale
Review First Nations Settler Writing

Feminist Paradoxes by Marie-Thérèse Blanc
  • Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada by Jennifer Henderson
Review Canadian Studies Feminism History Politics Settler Writing

From Routes to Rails by Bryan N. S. Gooch
  • A Year Inland: The Journal of a Hudson’s Bay Company Wanderer by Barbara Belyea
  • McCulloch’s Wonder: The Story of the Kettle Valley Railway. by Barrie Sanford
  • The Wilderness Profound: Victorian Life on the Gulf of Georgia by Richard Somerset Mackie
Review Biography British Columbia Exploration History Landscape/Space Settler Writing

The Pioneering Wife by Gwyneth Hoyle
  • Writing the Pioneer Woman by Janet Floyd
  • The Judge’s Wife: Memoirs of a British Columbia Pioneer by Eunice M. L. Harrisoin
Review Life Writing Settler Writing Women’s Literature

Genealogy and History by Adele Perry
  • English Immigrant Voices: Labourers’ Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines and Mary McDougall Maude
Review Authorship Correspondence Life Writing Settler Writing Working Class

Wilderness Colony by Bryan N. S. Gooch
  • Old Square-Toes and His Lady: The Life of James and Amelia Douglas by John Coldwell Adams
  • Way Out West: On the Trail of an Errant Ancestor by Michael Shaw Bond
Review Autobiography Life Writing Settler Writing

Views of the Frontier by Bryan N. S. Gooch
  • The Fort Langley Journals, 1827-30 by Morag Maclachlan
  • The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural Canadian Community by Elizabeth Furniss
Review British Columbia Colonialism First Nations Life Writing Native Studies Settler Writing