Marian Fowler
In this widely acclaimed study, Marian Fowler explores how the experience of wilderness and frontier create a psychic tension between the gentility of old-world "embroidery" and the rugged masculinity of "tent"-dwelling in the pioneering women of nineteenth-century Canada.,About the Author:,Marian Fowler, has won the Canadian Biography Award and has published widely on Canada and Canadian writing. She lives in Toronto.
Nonfiction
The embroidered tent: Five gentlewomen in early Canada, Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill, Susanna Moodie, Anna Jameson, Lady Dufferin