ENGL 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mary Russell Mitford, Our Village, Starch
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He invited moody to contribute to it and she was one of the most prolific contributors. Wrote a six-part prose series called canadian sketches. Travel backwards - what was it like to arrive in. Montreal trivia - john lovell"s printing establishment is still there. More important phase - she expanded her writings into a book manuscript, which she then sends with a friend, john bruce back across the. John bruce offered it to richard bentley, same man who pirated. 1850s, and bentley has figured out how to work with canadian authors on a more proper basis. Also law has changed so that canadians understand explicitly if they want to publish in london. Susanne wasn"t writing for us, for canada she could not forsee, let alone an american audience. Writing for genteel english audience that she knew, it was a milieu she came from in 1830s. Sold well and pirated in us much like haliburton"s book.