Sisters in the Wilderness (55 page)

Mount Ararat (Traill residence),
187

Murney, Edmund,
167
-
68

Murray, Louisa,
198

Narrative of the Campaign of 1814, A
(John Moodie),
39

Native peoples,
78
,
108
-
10
,
141
,
191

Natural history societies,
289

Nelson, Thomas,
193
,
290

Newton, Sir Isaac,
5
,
19

North American Magazine
,
124

Northern Whig, The
,
335

Oaklands (Traill residence),
187
-
88
,
258
-
59
,
350

Observer
(London),
218

Ockerman, Dunham,
262

O'Hare, John,
249

Orange Order,
168
,
264
,
268
-
69

Ottawa,
266
,
323
-
24

Ousterhouse, Elizabeth,
245

Palladium, The,
136

Papineau, Louis-Joseph,
130

Parker, Thomas,
158
,
168
,
262

Pearls and Pebbles
(Catharine Parr Traill),
341
-
42

Peterborough,
76
,
229
,
230

Peterborough Volunteers,
130

Peterman, Michael,
198

Pope-Hennessy, Una,
176

Prescott,
67

Prince, Mary,
26
,
38

Pringle, Margaret,
34

Pringle, Thomas,
23
,
25
,
34
,
38
,
252

Pursch, Frederick,
286

Putnam, George,
210

Queen's Own Regiment,
135

Rackham, Katherine,
213

Rebellion of 1837,
129
-
31

Reid, Robert,
39
-
40
,
76

Reydon Hall,
10
-
11
,
336
-
37

Rice Lake,
78
,
229
,
230
,
349

Richardson, John,
197

Rideau Hall,
326
-
29

Ritchie, Andrew,
318

Ritchie, James,
318
-
19
,
324

Robinson, John Beverley,
122

Ross, George Mclean,
310

Ross, Robbie,
163

Rottenburg, Baron de,
147

Roughing It in the Bush
(Susanna Moodie),
204
-
10
,
217
-
19

Rous, Frederick,
309
-
10

Rowley
,
61

Royal Bounty Fund,
343
-
46

Royal Literary Fund,
270

Russell, Eliza (Mrs. Dunbar Moodie),
274
-
75

Russell, Julia (Mrs. Donald Moodie),
274
-
75
,
310
-
11

Russell, Nellie (Mrs. Robert Moodie),
308
-
9
,
310

Ryerson, Egerton,
323

Salutin, Rick,
xiii
Sangster, Charles,
197

Saville (Traill residence),
180
,
183

Scenes and Adventures as a Soldier and Settler
(John Moodie),
270

Seaton, Emily,
85

Seaton, Roswell,
85

Shairp, Alexander,
106

Shairp, Emilia,
106
,
128
,
141

Sharpe's
London Magazine
,
192

Shields, Carol,
xiii

Shirreff, Patrick,
77

Smith, Goldwin,
341
-
42

South Africa,
30
-
31
,
34

Southwold,
12

Spectator
(London),
124

Spiritualism,
241
-
57

Spiritual Telegraph
,
250

Stanley, Baron of Preston,
340

Stewart, Frances,
80
-
81
,
107
,
144
,
174
,
188
,
192
,
227
,
286
,
297

Stewart, Thomas Alexander,
76

Stony Lake,
102
,
306
-
7

Stowe, Harriet Beecher,
210
,
253

Stowe House,
7

Strachan, John,
69

Strickland, Agnes (sister),
5
,
16
,
19
,
21
,
22
,
23
-
24
,
25
,
26
,
34
,
37
,
41
-
42
,
45
,
89
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91
,
103
,
114
,
134
,
171
-
79
,
182
,
186
,
191
-
92
,
193
,
201
,
211
-
15
,
216
,
237
,
259
,
298
,
313
,
314
,
335

Strickland, Arthur (grandson),
343

Strickland, Elizabeth (sister),
5
,
11
,
16
,
19
,
21
,
23
,
37
,
176
-
77
,
192
,
212
,
227
,
237
,
248
,
298
,
313

Strickland, George (nephew),
303

Strickland, Jane (sister),
5
,
21
,
23
,
37
,
115
,
212
,
319
,
335

Strickland, Mary (Mrs. Arthur Strickland),
342

Strickland, Mary Reid (Mrs. Samuel Strickland),
75
,
82

Strickland, Mrs. Thomas (Elizabeth),
5
,
15
-
16
,
45

Strickland, Mrs. Thomas (Susanna),
5

Strickland, Percy (nephew),
302
,
307

Strickland, Robert (nephew),
303

Strickland, Roland (nephew),
303
,
304

Strickland, Samuel (brother),
5
,
17
,
39
,
41
,
75
-
76
,
93
,
95
,
130
,
144
,
149
,
188
,
213
-
14
,
259
,
273
,
302
,
350

Strickland, Sarah (sister) (Mrs. Gwillym),
5
,
13
,
25
,
134
,
212
,
225
,
313
,
315
,
322
,
342

Strickland sisters: Agnes's disapproval and contempt for Thomas Traill,
45
,
114
,
182
-
83
; Catharine and rift between Agnes and Susanna,
236
-
37
; childhood,
7
-
9
,
11
-
13
; embarrassment over Traills' and Moodies'; plight,
182
; family legacy (inheritance),
93
; fondness of reading,
9
; literary talent,
19
,
20
-
25
; mutual dependence between Catharine and Susanna,
127
,
181
,
227
-
28
,
261
relations between Catharine and Agnes,
178
; and reversal in family fortune,
16
-
18
; rift between Agnes and Susanna,
213
-
15
,
217
,
225
-
26
,
314
-
15
,
319
; rivalry between Susanna and Agnes,
24
-
25
,
27
,
90
-
91
; upbringing,
7

Strickland, Thomas (father): affection for Catharine,
13
-
14
; business,
4
,
9
-
10
; death,
15
; family background,
4
; health problems,
5
,
8

Strickland, Thomas (brother),
5
,
17
,
313
,
314

Studies of Plant Life in Canada
(Catharine Parr Traill),
331
-
33

Sydenham, Lord,
165

Tait's
Edinburgh Magazine
,
124
,
192

Talbot, E.A.,
41

Tate, J.W.,
249

Ten Years in Africa
(John Moodie),
39
,
201

Thackeray, William Makepeace,
243

Thompson, Elizabeth,
xiii
Thorburn, Maria,
329

Toronto Star
,
172

Traill, Annie (daughter) (Mrs. Clinton Atwood),
142
,
175
,
181
,
186
,
234
,
260
,
313

Traill, Catharine Parr (
née
Strickland),
8
,
9
,
16
,
38
; clothes,
112
,
233
; conservation concerns,
230
; courage, strength, and hardship,
180
-
81
,
186
,
188
-
89
; faith,
14
,
180
,
250
,
260
; financial straits,
178
,
285
,
342
; and lack of social status,
112
; and Native people,
108
-
9
; nature lover,
107
,
112
,
188
,
285
-
86
; portrayed, xv; poverty,
175
,
180
-
81
,
184
-
85
; relations with John Moodie,
125
; and spiritualism,
252
-
53
; temperament,
11
,
13
,
45
,
109
; view of North Americans,
98
-
99
; visits to Belleville,
232
-
37
; courtship, marriage, and motherhood; falls in love with Thomas,
45
-
46
; and Francis Harral,
43
; ignores family's disapproval of Thomas,
46
; infant deaths,
180
; maternal role,
104
-
5
,
180
,
187
; pregnancies,
103
-
4
; relations with own children,
234
; relations with Thomas,
46
,
62
,
74
-
75
,
111
,
260
-
61
; wedding,
46
; emigration: arrival of Susanna,
1
-
2
; contracts cholera,
64
-
65
; departure to Canada,
46
-
47
;
illness during crossing,
62
; journey to Douro Township,
67
-
79
; frontier life: daily work,
105
-
6
,
111
; family reunion,
1
-
2
; first impressions,
62
-
65
,
66
-
82
,
98
-
100
; help of neighbours,
80
-
82
; homesickness,
101
,
134
; social life,
106
-
7
; literary work and career:
The
Backwoods of Canada
,
114
-
16
;
Canadian
Crusoes
,
190
-
93
;
Canadian Settler's Guide
,
238
-
39
; and changing British literary tastes,
179
,
285
; children's stories,
189
-
90
,
285
; collaborates with niece Agnes on
Canadian Wildflowers
,
292
-
99
; compulsive writer,
111
-
12
;
Cot and
Cradle Stories
,
342
; early promise,
11
,
20
-
21
; entry into London literary circles,
21
-
22
,
23
; income from writing,
178
,
193
-
94
,
239
,
285
; interest in botany,
191
,
285
-
91
; letters home,
101
,
114
-
15
;
Lost in the Backwoods
,
193
;
Pearls and Pebbles
,
341
-
42
; recognition,
326
-
33
; search for publishing outlets,
237
-
38
,
239
; sense of professionalism,
197
;
Studies of Plant Life in Canada
,
331
-
33
; writing as a form of release,
190
; writing as a means of support,
124
-
25
; widowhood: affection for Susanna,
337
; death,
347
; household,
313
-
14
; social and family life,
282
-
85
; Westcove residence, 382-383

Traill, James (son),
82
,
186
,
201
-
2
,
234
,
260
,
261

Traill, John (son, by first marriage),
45
,
114