Sisters in the Wilderness - Charlotte Gray [179]
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, 89-91, 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