Pearls and PebblesHow fitting to close out the 20th century with a brand new edition of Pearls & Pebbles by the noted chronicler of pioneer life, Catharine Parr Traill. Published in 1894, Pearls & Pebbles is an unusual book with a lasting charm, in which the author's broad focus ranges from the Canadian natural environment to early settlement of Upper Canada. Through Traill's eyes, we see the life of the pioneer woman, the disappearance of the forest, and the corresponding changes in the life of the Native Canadians who have inhabited that forest. Editor Elizabeth Thompson reminds us of the significance of the writings by Traill, the aged author/naturalist, who felt that the hours spent gathering the pebbles and pearls from her notebooks and journals written in the backwoods of Canada was not time wasted. |
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... 49 THE SPIDER 58 PROSPECTING , AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR 65 IN THE CANADIAN WOODS 67 THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING 82 ALONE IN THE FOREST 90 62 ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA 99 THE CHILDREN OF THE CONTENTS.
Catharine Parr Traill Elizabeth Helen Thompson. ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA 99 THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST 103 THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT 109 SOME CURIOUS PLANTS 115 SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN 120 THE CRANBERRY MARSH 123 OUR NATIVE ...
... children in a middle - class fam- ily - several of whom became well - known writers , two examples being Agnes Strickland , Lives of the Queens of England ( 1840-1848 ) and Susanna Moodie , Roughing It in the Bush ( 1852 ) Catharine ...
... children's stories , appeared the following year , and as her journals make clear , ' she had further work in mind . Her pen was stilled only by her death in 1899 — but through her lively and timeless writing , the spirit of the woman ...
... child , kept the qualities that endeared her to others into adulthood and old age . In her interesting and anecdotal biog- raphy of Catharine Traill , Mary Agnes FitzGibbon involves a few of her great - aunt's many admirers including in ...
Contents
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MORE ABOUT MY FEATHERED FRIENDS | 32 |
A DEFENSE | 45 |
NOTES FROM MY OLD DIARY | 49 |
THOUGHTS ON VEGETABLE INSTINCT | 109 |
SOME CURIOUS PLANTS | 115 |
SOME VARIETIES OF POLLEN | 120 |
THE CRANBERRY MARSH | 123 |
OUR NATIVE GRASSES | 126 |
INDIAN GRASS | 132 |
MOSSES AND LICHENS | 136 |
THE INDIAN MOSS BAG | 141 |
THE SPIDER | 58 |
PROSPECTING AND WHAT I FOUND IN MY DIGGING | 62 |
THE ROBIN AND THE MIRROR | 65 |
IN THE CANADIAN WOODS | 67 |
THE FIRST DEATH IN THE CLEARING | 82 |
ALONE IN THE FOREST | 90 |
ON THE ISLAND OF MINNEWAWA | 99 |
THE CHILDREN OF THE FOREST | 103 |
SOMETHING GATHERS UP THE FRAGMENTS | 144 |
APPENDIX A | 151 |
APPENDIX B | 181 |
APPENDIX C | 183 |
ENDNOTES | 187 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 199 |
INDEX | 203 |