Women & Environments International Magazine, October 1st, 2001
Charlotte Gray. Toronto: Penguin Books, 1999. 379 pp. CDN $18.99 (pb).
This double biography is a highly readable and refreshing account of the challenges and choices facing the two women whose names virtually define nineteenth century Canadian literature and its relationship with the Canadian landscape. Born into English gentry, Catharine and Susanna Strickland enjoyed a privileged, pastoral childhood in Suffolk, England, two among an entire family of talented, imaginative sisters, five of whom would go on to be writers. Each sister had her own forte and preferred genre, but constrained fina...
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