****Told with wit, spontaneity, and candour, Susanna Moodie's account of
life on a backwoods farm captures an important part of Canadian history,
now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.
Roughing It in the Bush chronicles Susanna Moodie's harsh and often
humorous experiences homesteading in the woods of Upper Canada. She
describes a life of backbreaking labour, poverty, and hardship on a
pioneer farm in the colonial wilderness. Her sharp observations,
satirical character sketches, and moments of despair and terror were a
startling contrast to the widely circulated optimistic portrayals of
life in British North America, written to entice readers across the
Atlantic. A frank and fascinating account of how one woman coped, not
only with a new world, but with a new self, this unabridged text
continues to justify the international sensation it caused when it was
first published in 1852. **
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