Susanna Moodie

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Anne Cimon. Susanna Moodie

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Susanna Moodie, 1803-1885.

Anne Cimon is a Montreal literary journalist and poet. Her articles and reviews have appeared in such publications as Books in Canada and the Montreal Review of Books. Her interest and research in nineteenth-century literature is reflected in her articles and inspired a series of poems in her book No Country for Women (Mosaic Press, 1993) on the nature writer Henry David Thoreau.

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“You are most happy in your descriptive scenes and I care not for Story in a Poem. I know most of Scott’s descriptive scenes by heart while I scarcely remember his stories… Descriptive poetry often goes so home to my heart that I cannot read a beautiful drawn scene of this kind without weeping.”

Susanna’s high spirits came through. Tongue-in-cheek, she wrote,

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