Sisters in the Wilderness (54 page)

Cruikshank, William,
35

Currier and Ives,
294

Dalhousie, Lady,
289

Darwin, Charles,
301

Davies, Robertson,
xiii
Davy, Benjamin Fairfield,
249

Dawson, John,
291

Dexter, George T.,
245

Dickens, Charles,
xi
,
256

Disraeli, Benjamin,
171
,
212

Dougall, Alan Ramsey,
262
-
63
,
279

Dougall, Mrs. John,
310

Douro Township,
76
-
77
,
118
-
19

Dunlop, Ellen,
174
,
190
,
194
,
227
,
245
,
259
,
320
,
328

Durham, Lord,
164

Eagle, Georgiana,
248

Edgeworth, Maria,
34
,
205

Edmonds, John,
245

Edward, Prince of Wales,
264
-
61

Elgin, Lord,
200

Emigration: conditions in steerage,
51
-
53
,
57
; diseases,
58
; disillusionment with Canada,
69
,
71
-
71
; economic factors propelling,
42
; emigrant gentlemen,
42
,
209
; promotion of Canada,
39
-
41

Examiner
,
218

Fairfield, Sumner Lincoln,
124

Family Compact,
69
,
120
,
121

Faraday, Michael,
256

Fenton, Faith,
343

Findley, Timothy,
xiii

Finsbury,
34
-
35

Fitzgibbon, Alice,
295

Fitzgibbon, Charles,
220
,
275
,
292
,
293

Fitzgibbon, Cherrie,
295

Fitzgibbon, James,
220

Fitzgibbon, Maime,
295
,
325
,
340
-
41

Fleming, Sir Sandford,
330
-
31
,
344

Fletcher, James,
329
,
331
,
332

Flora Lyndsay or Passages in an Eventful Life
(Susanna Moodie),
224

Fothergill, Charles,
136

Fox, Kate,
241
-
43
,
245
-
48
,
256
-
57

Fox, Maggie,
241
-
43

Francis, C.S.,
193

George
iii
,
5

George iv,
175

Globe
(Toronto),
219
,
332

Gore, Lady Bella,
151

Gore, Sir Francis,
151

Gore's Landing,
184
-
85

Graham, Robert,
287
-
88

Grant, George,
345

Greeley, Horace,
243

Grosse Ile,
58
-
60
,
63

Hague, Mary,
141
,
150
,
219
-
20

Hall, Arthur,
193

Hamilton Township,
349

Hannah (nursemaid),
51
,
58
,
85
,
86

Hare, Robert,
245

Harral, Anna Laura,
23
,
246

Harral, Francis,
43

Harral, Thomas,
22
,
246
,
251
-
52

Harris, Joseph,
84
,
86
-
87

Hastings County,
166

Hayes, John,
177

Homer, Elizabeth.
See also
Strickland, Mrs. Thomas

Hooker, Sir William Jackson,
288
,
291

Hope, Rev. Henry Payne,
238
,
239

Horticulturist
,
289

Howard, John,
54

Hudson's Bay Company,
284
,
338

Huron Signal
,
202
-
3

Irish,
59
,
153
,
207
,
218

Irving, Edward,
35

Jameson, Anna,
205

Katchewanooka, Lake,
76
,
303
-
5
,
350
.
See also
Lakefield

Kawartha Lakes,
307

Kingston,
68
,
119

Knight, Charles,
115
,
125

Krieghoff, Cornelius,
294

Lady Mary and her Nurse
(Catharine Parr Traill).
See also Lost in the Backwoods

Lafontaine, Louis-Hippolyte,
165

Lakefield,
77
,
271
,
271
-
74
,
302
,
350
.
See
also
Katchewanooka, Lake

Lansdowne, Lady,
326
-
27
,
328

Langton, John,
77
,
123

Langton, Ann,
198

Lawson, George,
291

Leith,
50
-
51

Leprohon, Rosanna,
197

Leverton, Rebecca,
21
,
22
,
43

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush
(Susanna Moodie),
221
-
23

Lindsey, Charles,
218

Literary Garland
,
137
,
170
-
71
,
173
,
181
,
197
,
198
,
199
,
209
,
220
,
224

Literary Gazette
,
210

Lorne, Marquis of,
332

Lost in the Backwoods
(Catharine Parr Traill),
193

Lovell, John,
137
,
159
-
60
,
199
,
220
,
293
-
94

Macaulay, Thomas Babington,
176

McCarrroll, James,
73

Macdonald, Sir John A.,
171
,
265
,
266
,
269
,
298
,
323
,
331

Mackenzie, William Lyon,
68
,
121
-
23
,
130
,
131

Mark Hurdlestone
(Susanna Moodie),
224

Marks, Grace,
222
-
23

Martineau, Harriet,
19

Matrimonial Speculations
(Susanna Moodie),
172
,
224

Melsetter (Hamilton Township),
84
,
92
-
93

Melsetter (Orkneys),
30

Mesmer, Anton Franz,
253

Methodist Book and Publishing House,
341

Mitford, Mary Russell,
33
,
34

Moncktons, The
(Susanna Moodie),
224

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley,
19
,
205

Moodie, Agnes (daughter) (Mrs. Charles Fitzgibbon; later Mrs. Brown Chamberlin),
88
,
97
,
128
,
141
,
150
,
219
-
20
,
235
,
254
-
55
,
278
,
292
-
95
,
299
-
301
,
324

Moodie, Benjamin (brother),
30

Moodie, Catherine Mary Josephine (daughter) (Mrs. John Vickers),
46
,
51
,
97
,
133
,
149
,
220
,
225
,
235
,
256
,
269
,
275
,
310
,
313
,
319
,
339

Moodie, Donald (son),
125
,
140
,
220
,
235
,
276
,
278
,
310
,
311

Moodie, George Arthur (son),
160

Moodie, John Alexander Dunbar (son),
103
,
125
,
141
,
148
,
220
,
235
,
274
,
278
,
311

Moodie, John Dunbar: appointed temporary paymaster,
138
; charges of corruption,
261
-
64
; commissioned captain in Queen's Own Regiment,
135
; death,
78
; and departure from Leith,
50
; devoted father,
105
,
135
; emigration, attraction of Canada,
39
-
41
; failing health,
269
-
71
,
276
-
78
; falls in love with Susanna,
30
-
31
; family background,
30
; lack of political connections,
120
-
21
; literary work,
39
,
136
; loving husband,
105
,
135
-
36
,
145
-
46
; money woes,
30
,
31
,
39
,
40
,
92
,
100
,
123
,
125
-
26
,
137
-
38
,
144
-
45
,
220
,
270
; moves family to Belleville,
148
-
49
; and politics,
122
,
163
-
73
; relations with Thomas Traill,
127
; resignation as sheriff,
269
; sells military commission,
125
; as sheriff of Victoria District,
147
,
151
-
73
,
261
-
64
; and spiritualism,
244
-
45
,
247
,
249
-
251
,
253
-
55
; temperament,
54
,
83
; and
The Victoria Magazine
,
198
,
200
-
3
; volunteers to put down rebellion,
130
; frontier life: desperate to leave,
125
-
28
; moves family to Lake Katchewanooka,
93
-
96
; settles in Hamilton Township,
83
-
93
; settling
the land,
100
; squanders Susanna's family legacy,
123

Moodie, John Strickland (son),
133
,
140
,
160
,
162
-
63
,
253

Moodie, Robert Baldwin (son),
172
,
220
,
235
,
276
,
278
,
308
,
317
,
319

Moodie, Susanna (
née
Strickland),
18
,
21
; and abolitionist movement,
23
,
26
; clothes,
233
-
34
; condescending attitude,
59
-
60
,
71
,
89
; expulsion from Congregationalist Church,
196
; and Native people,
108
,
109
-
10
,
141
; patriotism,
133
; portrayed,
xi
-
xiii
; religion,
25
-
26
; and spiritualism,
244
-
52
,
255
-
56
; temperament,
11
,
14
-
15
; view of North Americans,
98
-
99
; childhood: birth,
7
; bond between Catharine and,
18
; defiant and impulsive behaviour,
14
-
15
; courtship, marriage, and motherhood: difficult relations with own children,
219
-
20
,
274
-
75
,
310
-
11
; falls in love,
31
; loss of little Johnnie,
162
-
63
; maternal role,
105
; pregnancies,
39
,
103
-
4
,
137
; relations with John,
105
,
135
-
36
,
219
,
276
-
80
; wedding,
38
; emigration: Atlantic crossing,
50
,
60
; first impressions of Canada,
58
-
59
; loneliness,
90
; and plans to live in South Africa,
32
; psychological scars,
50
; reservation about Canada,
42
; travelling party,
51
; frontier life: at Lake Katchawanooka,
100
-
3
; care packages from home,
126
,
182
,
186
; daily work,
87
-
88
,
105
-
6
; family reunion,
1
-
2
,
94
-
101
; finding extra sources of income,
137
; first impressions,
72
-
74
,
83
-
96
,
98
-
100
; Hamilton Township home,
84
-
93
; help of neighbours,
141
-
42
; homesickness,
92
,
101
; loneliness,
136
,
144
,
146
-
47
; managing farm and family alone,
137
,
138
-
42
; meals,
107
-
8
; poverty,
89
,
123
-
24
,
126
-
27
,
140
; rosy expectations,
67
-
70
; social life,
106
-
7
; travel,
94
-
96
; literary work and career: constraints in Canada,
88
-
90
; contributions to
Literary Garland
,
159
,
198
-
99
,
224
; criticisms of her work,
224
-
25
; early works,
24
-
25
; editorship of
The Victoria Magazine
,
199
-
203
; hunger for fame,
27
; income from writing,
205
,
210
,
224
,
225
,
240
; and John Lovell,
159
-
60
;
Life in the
Clearings
,
221
-
23
; recognition,
173
; reviews of
Roughing It
,
217
-
19
; ridicules editor of
Belleville Intelligencer
,
170
-
72
; rising star,
33
-
36
; rivalry with Agnes,
24
-
25
,
27
;
Roughing It in the
Bush
,
204
-
10
; search for publishing outlets,
89
-
90
; sense of professionalism,
197
; uncertainties of bluestocking future,
37
; writing as a form of release,
146
; writing as a means of support,
124
; widowhood: affection of Catharine,
316
-
18
,
320
; death,
321
; last days,
319
-
321
; moodiness,
315
-
16
; under one roof with Catharine,
312
-
15