Concurrent with and subsequent to Atwood's poetic portrait, critics have attempted to define the generic and structural nature of
Roughing It in the Bush and to probe the complexities of the narrator's personality in order to explain its literary durability and its haunting power. Although
Roughing It alone secures for the author an enduring place in Canadian literary history, Moodie did in fact create a trilogy of immigrant experience, from the initial preparations and the voyage out depicted in
Flora Lyndsay (1854) to the appraisal of Canadian towns and institutions in
Life in the Clearings. Together these works present a vivid sense of the trials and accomplishments in pioneer and colonial life.
Susanna Strickland Moodie was born near Bungay, Suffolk, England, on 6 December 1803, the sixth daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Homer Strickland. Her father had been the manager of the Greenland Dock, on the south bank of the Thames, but he retired and moved with his family to East Anglia sometimes between January 1802 and December 1803. For some months they resided near Norwich, but by the time of Susanna's birth they were living at Stowe House on the Waveney near the town of Bungay.
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