“Poverty, and the dread of further degradation, had driven me from my home, to seek a dependent subsistence in the land of strangers.”

About Susanna Moodie

Author • Canadian

Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author renowned for her detailed accounts of settler life in Upper Canada. Her most famous work, 'Roughing It in the Bush', provides a vivid and often unromanticized depiction...