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Catharine Parr Traill [1] (born Strickland; 9 January 1802 – 29 August 1899) was an English-Canadian author and naturalist who wrote about life in Canada, particularly what is now Ontario (then the colony of Upper Canada ). In the 1830s, Canada covered an area considerably smaller than today. At the time, most of Upper Canada had not been ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Catharine Parr Traill (born January 9, 1802, London, England—died August 29, 1899, Lakefield, Ontario, Canada) was an English Canadian nature writer who, in richly detailed descriptions of frontier life, was one of the first to praise the beauties of the Canadian landscape. Traill, a writer of children’s books in England, emigrated to the ...
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Catharine Parr Traill, née Strickland, pioneer writer, botanist (born 9 January 1802 in London, England; died 29 August 1899 in Lakefield, ON). Catharine Parr Traill’s books are some of the earliest in the Canadian literary canon. Works such as The Backwoods of Canada: Being Letters from the Wife of an Emigrant Officer (1836) offer detailed ...
Catharine Parr Traill 1 (1802–1899), her sister Susanna Moodie (1803–1885), and their brother Samuel Strickland (1805–1867) were remarkable siblings who recorded their experiences as Canadian backwoods colonists; taken together, their many books and stories document a vivid, multi-facetted picture of mid-nineteenth-century Ontario.
Jan 1, 2001 · Although Charlotte Gray's Sisters in the Wilderness: The Lives of Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill is an extensive and also at times intensive analysis of the two sisters' lives and times (both in England and later in Canada) and that yes indeed, I have certainly through my perusal obtained a more thorough portrait of especially Susanna Moodie (and also an increased understanding of ...
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TRAILL, Catharine Parr. Born. Rotherhithe, London, England, 1802. Died. Lakefield, Ontario, 1899. Biography synopsis. As her father had an intellectual bent, Catherine Parr Traill (née Strickland) was encouraged to be resourceful, knowledgeable and self-reliant from a very young age. Her mother schooled her in the "womanly arts," but her ...
Catharine Parr Traill. 3.68. 311 ratings30 reviews. The toils, troubles, and satisfactions of pioneer life are recorded with charm and vivacity in this portrayal of pioneer life by Catharine Parr Traill, who, like her sister Susanna Moodie, left the comforts of genteel English society for the rigours of a new, young land.
