Tag: 19th century

• Roughing it in the Bush

  Susanna Moodie Susanna Moodie is a classic Canadian writer, so it seemed only right that I should read some of her work for the Canadian Book Challenge – after all, my aim was to try and get as broad a view as possible of Canadian literature, and this will take me back to the 19th…

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  October 31, 2012

  19th century, Canada, Canadian Literature, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Indians, Roughing it in the Bush, settlers

• The Last Chapter

  It’s Thursday again, and time for a Thought or, in this case, a picture. The Last Chapter was painted by Robert Braithwaite Martineau in 1863, and I like the way the woman has obviously moved off the sofa and is kneeling on the rug, holding her book to catch every glimmer of light from the…

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  January 26, 2012

  19th century, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Reading Challenge

• The Country Child’s Christmas

  I’m celebrating Day 11 of the Advent Bookfest with a 1952 Faber and Faber edition of Alison Uttley’s The Country Child, illustrated with woodblock engravings by CF Tunnicliffe. Uttley is probably best known for her children’s books, especially the Little Grey Rabbit stories with their beautiful pictures painted by Margaret Tempest, so I’ve included one,…

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  December 11, 2011

  19th century, Alison Uttley, Christmas, The Country Child