Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Author: Anna Jameson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1108033563

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Volume 3 of Jameson's hugely successful 1838 work reveals her mixed fascination and revulsion when observing Native American culture.

Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada
Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Author: Anna Brownell Jameson

Publisher: New Canadian Library

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 614

ISBN-13: 0771017030

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In 1836, Anna Jameson sailed from London, England, to join her husband in Upper Canada, where he was serving as attorney general. Shaking off the mud of Muddy York with mild disdain, young Mrs. Jameson swiftly sallied forth to discover the New World for herself. The best known of all nineteenth century Canadian travel books, Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada is Jameson’s wonderfully entertaining account of her adventures, ranging from gleeful observations about the pretensions of high society in the colonies to a “wild expedition” she took by canoe into Indian country. Jameson’s keen eye, intrepid spirit, irreverent sense of humour and staunch feminist perspective make this journal an invaluable record of life in pre-Confederation Canada.

Songs of Life
Songs of Life

Author: Edward Hartley Dewart

Publisher: s.n.], 1869 (Toronto : Dudley & Burns)

Published: 1869

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Maps of Difference
Maps of Difference

Author: Wendy Roy

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0773572678

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Roy considers the connections Jameson makes between feminism and anti-racism in Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838), Hubbard's insights in A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador (1908) into her relationship with First Nations men who had both more and less power than she, and Laurence's awareness of colonial and patriarchical oppression in her African memoir The Prophet's Camel Bell (1963). Roy also examines archival and First Nations accounts of these women's travels, and the sketches, photos, and maps that accompany their writing, to examine contradictions in and question the implied objectivity of travel narratives. She concludes by looking at the myth of getting there first and the ways in which new technologies of representation, including cameras, allow travellers and writers to claim new travel firsts.