LC control no. | n 50001362 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR9199.2.M65 PS8426.O63 CaOONL |
Personal name heading | Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885 |
Variant(s) | Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885 Moodie, Mrs. (Susanna), 1803-1885 Strickland, Susannah, 1803-1885 Strickland, S. (Susanna), 1803-1885 S. M., 1803-1885 Moodie, Mrs., 1803-1885 Strickland, Susanna, 1803-1885 |
Associated country | Canada |
Birth date | 1803-12-06 |
Death date | 1885-04-08 |
Place of birth | Bungay (England) |
Place of death | Toronto (Ont.) |
Profession or occupation | Authors Novelists Abolitionists Poets Pioneers |
Found in | Her Life in the clearings, 1887. Her Flora Lyndsay, 1887: t.p. (Mrs. Moodie) nuc89-18920: Her Roughing it in the bush ... 1986 (hdg. on MnU rept.: Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885; usage: Susanna Moodie) NUC pre-56 (usage: Susanna Moodie; Mrs. Moodie; Susannah Strickland) NLC, 9/20/89 (hdg: Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885) Negro slavery described by a Negro, 2001: title screen (S. Strickland) Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill website, National Library of Canada, 14 Nov. 2003: Writing and publications, English writing, Susanna's creative focus screen (Before she left Britain, Susanna assisted two former West Indian slaves in telling their stories for the Anti-Slavery Society. The History of Mary Prince... and Negro Slavery Described By a Negro: Being the Narrative of Ashton Warner... were both published in 1831) Bentley's miscellany, 1852: volume 32, number 187, pages 143-152 (Canadian life: Jeanie Burns, [by] S.M.) Wellesley Index, via WWW, 25 January 2018 (Canadian life: Jeanie Burns written by Susannah (Strickland) Moodie, 1803-1885, novelist) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, via WWW, 25 January 2018 (Susanna Moodie, née Strickland, autobiographer and short-story writer, was born at Bungay, Suffolk, on 6 December 1803; publishing work in annuals and in periodicals such as The Athenaeum, she was willing to experiment in almost any literary genre; her output in the 1820s and early 1830s includes, in addition to her poems, sketches, and stories for magazines, several children's stories; a novel (Spartacus, 1822), which she claimed to have written when she was thirteen; and a volume of poetry inspired by her conversion to congregationalism (Enthusiasm, and other Poems, 1831); she also helped the former slave Mary Prince to write her autobiography (1831), which was to become an important document in the abolition debate; on 4 April 1831 Susanna Strickland married John Wedderburn Dunbar Moodie; emigrated to Cobourg, Ontario, eventually settling in Belleville; she became editor of the Victoria Magazine, a short-lived periodical (thirteen issues) for which she and her husband wrote most of the material; she was also contributing stories and journalistic work to magazines such as the Literary Garland; in 1852 she published the work that established her reputation, Roughing it in the Bush; Susanna Moodie died on 8 April 1885 at 52 Adelaide Street, Toronto, and was buried in Belleville, Ontario) LAC internal file, June 26, 2019 (access point: Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885; variants: Moodie, Mrs., 1803-1885; Moodie, Susannah Strickland, 1803-1885; Strickland, Susanna, 1803-1885; Strickland, Susannah, 1803-1883; Susanna Moodie, nee Strickland, author, settler; born at Bungay, England, 6 December 1803; died at Toronto 8 April 1885; Susanna was the youngest in a literary family of whom Catharine Parr Traill and Samuel Strickland are best known in Canada) |
National bib agency no. | 0101J5119E |
Associated language | eng |
Quality code | nlc |