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to undergo in their backwoods home. Her first book written 

 after she came to Canada was " Mark Hurdlestone, the Gold 

 Worshipper." i This was followed by "Flora Lyndsay," 2 

 "Matrimonial Speculations, ' 3 "Roughing it in the Bush," 4 

 "Life in the Clearings," 5 "Dorothy Chance," "The Monck" 

 tons," 6 etc. 



Mrs. Catharine Parr Traill, who died only a couple of 

 years ago, having nearly reached the century mark, was born 

 in England in 1805. 7 She emigrated to Canada in 1832, 

 with her husband, Lieutenant Traill of the Scotch Fusiliers. 

 They settled near Rice Lake, in Upper Canada, where nearly 

 all her books were written. Besides several charmingly 

 written books of science, which furnish delightful reading as 

 well to the novice as to the naturalist, she was the author of a 

 number of tales, among the chief of which may be mentioned 

 " The Canadian Crusoes," 8 "Lady Mary and her Nurse," 9 

 and " Stories of the Canadian Forest." 10 



Mrs. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon was born and educated 

 in Montreal. She contributed to the Literary Garland at 

 the age of fourteen, and subsequently wrote a number of 

 novels, romances and short tales, as well as some rather 



1. Publi-hed 1852, in 2 volumes 



2 "Flora Lyndsay ; or, Pnssages in an Eventful Life," 1854. 



H. 1854. 



4. "Roughing it in the Bush ; or. Life in Canada," 1852. 



5. " Life in the Clearings through the Bush," 1853. 

 6 1856, 2 \ <ilurnes. 



Mrs. Moodie subsequently published a number of othernoveis and 

 tales: "Hugh Latimer," " R -wland Ma^singham," "Adventures of 

 Little Downey," " Soldiers' Orphans," "Over the Straits," "The World 

 Before Them," 3 v^ 1^., and " George Leatrim," 1875. Mrs. Moodie died 

 in 1885. 



7. An i Ml eresting biographical sketch of Mrs. Traill will be found 

 in the introduction to one of the last of her bocks, " Pearls and Pebbles ; 

 or Notes of an Old Naturalist." 



8. Edited by Anges Strickland. Published by Hall & Vertue, Lon- 

 don, and afterwards by NTelson & Son, Edinburgh. Ran through 

 numerous editions. 



9. Published 1850. Name afterwards changed to "Afar in the 

 Forest." Many subsequent editions. • 



10. Published 1856. 



The last book Mrs. Traill published, "Cot and Cradle Stories," ap- 

 peared in 189.5, when she was well on into her nineties. 



