• The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

  • By: Mentor New York
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The Backwoods of Canada by Catharine Parr Traill

By: Mentor New York
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  • The writer is as earnest in recommending ladies who belong to the higher class of settlers to cultivate all the mental resources of a superior education, as she is to induce them to discard all irrational and artificial wants and mere useless pursuits. She would willingly direct their attention to the natural history and botany of this new country, in which they will find a never-failing source of amusement and instruction, at once enlightening and elevating the mind, and serving to fill up the void left by the absence of those lighter feminine accomplishments, the practice of which are necessarily superseded by imperative domestic duties. To the person who is capable of looking abroad into the beauties of nature, and adoring the Creator through his glorious works, are opened stores of unmixed pleasure, which will not permit her to be dull or unhappy in the loneliest part of our Western Wilderness. The writer of these pages speaks from experience, and would be pleased to find that the simple sources from which she has herself drawn pleasure, have cheered the solitude of future female sojourners in the backwoods of Canada. (Summary from book introduction)
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Episodes
  • APPENDIX

    APPENDIX
    Jul 16 2023
    19 mins
  • Busy Spring

    Busy Spring
    Jul 16 2023
    11 mins
  • Ague

    Ague
    Jul 16 2023
    15 mins

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