Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush (43 page)

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Roughing It in the Bush; or, Life in Canada (1852)
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush (1853)

FICTION

Mark Hurdlestone; or, The Gold Worshipper (1853)
Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life (1854)

Matrimonial Speculations (1854)
Geoffrey Moncton; or, The Faithless Guardian (1855)
The World before Them (1868)

FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULTS

Spartacus: A Roman Story (1822)
The Little Quaker; or, The Triumph of Virtue (n.d.)
The Sailor Brother; or, The History of Thomas Saville (n.d.)
The Little Prisoner; or, Passion and Patience (n.d.)
Hugh Latimer; or, The School-Boy’s Friendship (1828)
Rowland Massingham; or, I Will Be My Own Master (n.d.)
Profession and Principle; or, The Vicar’s Tales (n.d.)
George Leatrim; or, The Mother’s Test (1875)

LETTERS

Letters of a Lifetime [eds. Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins,
and Michael Peterman] (1985)

POETRY

Patriotic Songs [with Agnes Strickland] (1830)
Enthusiasm; and Other Poems (1831)

This edition is an unabridged reprint of the first edition of
Life in the
Clearings versus the Bush
, published in London, England, by Richard
Bentley in 1853.

New Canadian Library edition © 1989 by McClelland & Stewart Ltd.
Afterword copyright © 1989 by Carol Shields.

First New Canadian Library edition 1989.
This New Canadian Library edition 2010.

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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885
     Life in the clearings versus the bush / Susanna Moodie; afterword by Carol Shields.

(New Canadian library)
eISBN: 978-0-7710-9371-5

     1. Ontario – Description and travel. 2. Ontario – Social life and customs – 19th century. 3. Frontier and pioneer life – Ontario. 4. Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885. 5. Women pioneers – Ontario – Biography. 6. Immigrants – Ontario – Biography. 7. Authors, Canadian (English) – 19th century – Biography. I. Title. II. Series: New Canadian library

FC3067.2.M66 2010     971.3’02     C2010-900037-4

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