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    Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880
    Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880
    Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880
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    Pioneering Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women, Beginnings to 1880

    By Lorraine Mcmullen and Sandra Campbell

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    Pioneering Women is an anthology of short fiction written before 1880 by Canadian women, including Susanna Moodie, Catharine Parr Traill, and Rosanna Mullins Leprohon. From the Maritimes to Upper Canada, from backwoods to the drawing room, this collection demonstrates the variety that exists in stories by women of early British North America.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Ottawa Press
    Release dateJan 1, 1993
    ISBN9780776616735
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