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19-833: Susanna Moodie ( née Strickland ; 6 December 1803 – 8 April 1885) was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Susanna Moodie was born in Bungay , on the River Waveney in Suffolk . She was one of the youngest sister in a family of writers, including Agnes Strickland , Jane Margaret Strickland and Catharine Parr Traill . She wrote her first children's book in 1822 and published other children's stories in London, including books about Spartacus and Jugurtha . In London she

38-577: A man's surname at birth that has subsequently been replaced or changed. The diacritic mark (the acute accent ) over the e is considered significant to its spelling, and ultimately its meaning, but is sometimes omitted. According to Oxford University 's Dictionary of Modern English Usage , the terms are typically placed after the current surname (e.g., " Margaret Thatcher , née Roberts" or " Bill Clinton , né Blythe"). Since they are terms adopted into English (from French), they do not have to be italicized , but they often are. In Polish tradition ,

57-667: A book of Canadian wild flowers, with her water-coloured illustrations and Traill's text. The book attracted 500 subscriptions, a significant number at the time. Canadian Wild Flowers first edition was published in 1868; the second and third subscribed editions were published in 1869 (Montreal: J. Lovell); and a fourth edition in 1895 (Toronto: W. Briggs). Her paintings of Canadian plants and flowers were also published in other books on Canadian flora, with 9 full page colour lithographs in Catherine Traill's Studies of Plant Life in Canada (Ottawa: A.S. Woodburn, 1885). In 1972, 11 of

76-558: A surveyor, and where artifacts are housed in a museum. Founded by Samuel, the museum was formerly an Anglican church and overlooks the Otonabee River where Susanna once canoed. It also displays artifacts concerning Samuel, as well as her elder sister and fellow writer Catharine, who married a friend of John Moodie's and immigrated to the same area a few weeks before Susanna and John. Moodie continued to write in Canada, and her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in

95-515: Is buried in Belleville Cemetery . Her greatest literary success was Roughing it in the Bush . The inspiration for the memoir came from a suggestion by her editor that she write an "emigrant's guide" for British people looking to move to Canada. Moodie wrote of the trials and tribulations she found as a "New Canadian", rather than the advantages to be had in the colony. She claimed that her intention

114-416: Is the feminine past participle of naître , which means "to be born". Né is the masculine form. The term née , having feminine grammatical gender , can be used to denote a woman's surname at birth that has been replaced or changed. In most English-speaking cultures, it is specifically applied to a woman's maiden name after her surname has changed due to marriage. The term né can be used to denote

133-471: Is working on a biography of Moodie. On 8 September 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Library of Canada , Canada Post released a special commemorative series, "The Writers of Canada", with a design by Katalina Kovats, featuring two English-Canadian and two French-Canadian stamps. Three million stamps were issued. Moodie and her sister Catherine Parr Traill were featured on one of

152-670: The Upper Canada Rebellion in 1837. As a middle-class Englishwoman, Moodie did not particularly enjoy "the bush", as she called it. In 1840, she and her husband moved to Belleville , which she referred to as "the clearings." She studied the Family Compact and became sympathetic to the moderate reformers led by Robert Baldwin , while remaining critical of radical reformers such as William Lyon Mackenzie. This caused problems for her husband, who shared her views, but, as sheriff of Belleville, had to work with members and supporters of

171-507: The Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or brit milah ) will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some reasons for changes of a person's name include middle names , diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents), and gender transition . The French and English-adopted née

190-517: The Bush , a romantic history about the harshness of Canadian rural living during the 1830s. Roughing it was published in 1852. In 1868, Canadian Wild Flowers was published, viewed as one of the first serious botanical works published in Canada, which included text by Catharine Parr Traill . The book, very expensive for its time, was sold by subscription, largely through its author's own efforts; as an enterprising widow, she also worked as an illustrator to support her children and herself. Fitzgibbon

209-476: The English-Canadian stamps. Birth name#Maiden and married names A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname , the given name , or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name . The assumption in

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228-683: The Family Compact. In 1852, she published the memoir Roughing it in the Bush , detailing her experiences on the farm in the 1830s. In 1853, she published her second memoir, Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush , about her time in Belleville. She remained in Belleville, living with various family members (particularly her son Robert) after her husband's death, and lived to see Canadian Confederation . She died in Toronto , Ontario on 8 April 1885 and

247-491: The colony. She observed life in what was then the backwoods of Ontario , including native customs, the climate, the wildlife, relations between the Canadian population and recent American settlers, and the strong sense of community and the communal work, known as "bees" (which she, incidentally, hated). She suffered through the economic depression in 1836, and her husband served in the militia against William Lyon Mackenzie in

266-517: The term z domu (literally meaning "of the house", de domo in Latin ) may be used, with rare exceptions, meaning the same as née . Agnes Dunbar Moodie Fitzgibbon She was born Agnes Dunbar Moodie on a farm near Cobourg , Upper Canada. Her parents were John and Susanna Moodie . Around five years later, the family moved to Belleville . She learned how to paint flowers from her mother. Her mother, famously, published Roughing it in

285-548: The watercolour paintings were reproduced in Eustella Langdon's Pioneer Gardens (Toronto: Holt Rinehart and Winston). She died in Toronto in 1913. Her heirs presented her paintings and copies of Canadian Wild Flowers and Studies of Plant Life in Canada to the University of Toronto in 1934–5. They became part of the University's Botany Department, Then, in 1966, the collection of books and paintings were transferred to

304-464: Was also an important influence on one of Atwood's later novels, Alias Grace , based on an account of murder convict Grace Marks which appeared in Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush . She has also been a source of inspiration for Carol Shields , who published a critical analysis of Moodie's work, Susanna Moodie: Voice and Vision . Additionally, the central character of Shields' novel, Small Ceremonies ,

323-613: Was also involved in the abolitionist organization Anti-Slavery Society , transcribing the narrative of the former Caribbean slave Mary Prince . On 4 April 1831, she married John Moodie , a retired officer who had served in the Napoleonic Wars . In 1832, with her husband, a British Army officer, and daughter, Moodie immigrated to Upper Canada . The family settled on a farm in Douro township, near Lakefield , north of Peterborough , where her brother Samuel Strickland (1804–1867) worked as

342-446: Was married twice: first around 1850 to Charles Thomas Fitzgibbon, a barrister, who died in 1865, and, in 1870, to Brown Chamberlin , later the Queen's Printer . She had eight children with her first husband and one with her second. In 1863, she began her paintings of Canadian flora to illustrate a book by her aunt, Catharine Parr Traill . After the death of her husband, she began work on

361-438: Was not to discourage immigrants but to prepare people like herself, raised in relative wealth and with no prior experience as farmers, for what life in Canada would be like. Moodie taught her daughter Agnes how to paint flowers. Agnes later illustrated Canadian Wild Flowers , published in 1868. Moodie's books and poetry inspired Margaret Atwood 's collection of poetry, The Journals of Susanna Moodie , published in 1970. It

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