Life in the Backwoods
Life in the Backwoods in Susanna Moodie’s follow-up to her first memoir, Roughing It in the Bush. She and her family leave the home they’ve carved out in the bush for new opportunities in Canada’s frontier. Once again she chronicles their struggles, sorrows, and joys as they try to build a life for themselves in a place that can be equal parts bounteous and unforgiving.
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Susanna Moodie was born Susanna Strickland in Bungay, Suffolk, England, in 1803. The sixth and final daughter of a retired dock manager, she grew up in a middle-class family that encouraged the children in reading and in writing. Her sisters Agnes and Elizabeth would write Lives of the Queens of England and other biographies of the aristocracy, her sister Catharine Parr (later Traill) would emigrate to Canada and write several natural history books, and her brother Samuel, another emigrant to Canada, would write of the settler's life. Susanna’s juvenilia include poetry and many fiction tales for young adults.
In 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie, a military officer who had returned to England from South Africa to explore publication…
Roughing It in the Bush
Susanna Moodie
Life in the Backwoods
Susanna Moodie
Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
Susanna Moodie, Afterword by Carol Shields